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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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notting hill 's trailer is awful : a laughless , schmaltzy montage .
the movie was desperately marketed to the anti - phantom menace crowd , the same lovelorn females who ignored the love letter .
and it apparently worked .
perhaps the presence of julia roberts - whose allure beyond those perfect teeth still escapes me - had a lot to do with notting hill 's opening weekend success , but the film 's staying power is based on word of mouth . allow me to spread some more good buzz for notting hill .
grant stars as william thacker , a travel - bookstore owner who works and resides in a tiny english district called notting hill .
into his shop one day wanders famous actress anna scott ( roberts ) .
a common thief , some spilled orange juice , and
some stilted conversation leads to their first , highly impetuous ( or is that improbable ? ) , kiss .
days later , william sneaks into her hotel suite under the guise of a magazine journalist , and so begins a passionate , albeit surreptitious , affair .
( aside : notting hill 's portrayal of press junkets is deadly accurate . )
only anna 's celebrity - or william 's lack thereof - threatens to drive a wedge between them .
richard curtis has tapped into fantasy we all have considered , and for at least its first half - hour the picture 's " beauty and the beast " -like scenario is ( romantic ) escapism of the highest order .
as with groundhog day or pleasantville , while watching the high - concept comedy notting hill one constantly imagines him / herself in the lead ; it 's william 's ordinaryness that entices the spoiled and bored anna .
curtis ( who previously penned four weddings and a funeral ) is also smart enough to know that the unlikely couple 's situation is not enough to fuel two hours ' worth of entertainment , so
some of notting hill 's finest moments revolve around william 's eccentric friends and family .
by now , dear reader , you 've probably heard a lot about rhys ifans ' performance as william 's imbecilic welsh flatmate .
yes , he 's a crowd pleaser , a walking sight gag , but his character is not nearly as involving as the wheelchair - bound ( and appropriately named ) bella ( mckee , the anguished waitress of naked ) or max ( tom mcinnerny ) , her lousy chef of a husband .
in the movie 's best sequence , william , anna , and company sit around bloated from max 's latest concoction and hold a contest : the last brownie on the table goes to the diner with the saddest life .
the scene ends only as a british writer would end it .
if anything , fantastic bits like these dull the main plot 's dramatic impact .
roberts and grant , especially , are appealing , but their relationship is convolutedly interrupted too many times ( four weddings ' suffered similar flaws ) , and william and anna ultimately only have one thing in common
: they 're lonely .
( worth noting in roberts ' and grant 's favour : the ubiquitous " i 'm just a girl , standing across from a boy , asking him to love her " episode is not nearly so syrupy as it appears in clips , and it features some of the best emoting either actor has ever done . )
notting hill is nonetheless enjoyable
; on the visual side of things , i especially appreciated michell 's playful changing - of - the - seasons number . if only ( and this is a surprisinly minor gripe ) he had lopped off the egregious epilogue ; for a story that thrives on what we bring to it , the filmmakers work too hard to tidy things up , leaving our imaginations in the lurch .
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P

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how many of us would become strippers ?
for those of us who would n't , is it a moral reason , or purely a lack of confidence ?
that 's probably not a fair question , and for a lot of us ,
it could very well be for neither of those reasons .
as you watch the full monty , however , you may begin asking yourself these kinds of questions .
would you be willing to grin and bare it to bring in some much needed dough ?
in case you have n't guessed , the full monty is about stripping , but striptease it ai n't .
it 's actually quite a charming comedy that uses its ideas with a great deal of tact and sophistication .
it is the story of six out - of - work , out - of - shape blue collar brits whose recent job losses have left the boys penniless , but not without need .
what to do ?
it hits our main character gaz ( robert carlyle ) as he notices the large crowds of women who pour into a local male strip club on a regular basis .
it seems that simple : take it off and bring in the cash .
eventually , gaz is able to convince his friends to join him in starting their own exotic dance routine despite their initial reluctance .
these include the overweight , confidence - lacking dave ( mark addy ) , the uptight , overly - officious gerald ( tom wilkinson ) , the once suicidal lomper ( steve huison ) , and two additional fellows who gain their place among the group by audition : horse ( paul barber ) , an older gentlemen chock full of graceless energy , and guy ( hugo speer ) , a young well - endowed looker who compares himself to cary grant .
when the sextet is complete , we 're given a hefty dose of physical comedy .
we watch the bumbling middle - aged men choreograph pseudo - sexy dance numbers , all the while proving why none of them were strippers in the first place .
as if there anti - appeal was n't enough , they decide to boost interest in the group by promising " the full monty " on opening night , which for us americans , means baring it all .
..
and i mean
* all
* .
the movie actually ends on opening night ; a hilarious applause worthy ending
i might add .
it 's sure to leave nothing short of a big smile on your face as you leave the theater .
with the subject matter , you might not expect the fully monty to be such a feel - good , almost inspiring film , but it surprisingly turns out that way .
the amount of light , touching drama also comes as a nice surprise , never feeling off - balance from the otherwise highly upbeat moments of the film .
there 's a lot more to this movie than you might think in other words , and
the ensemble cast could n't be better .
each character is completely individual , interesting , funny , and most importantly , real .
the full monty is never offensive , a very impressive attribute since its subject matter alone could 've easily fallen prey to tastelessness .
it 's one of those movies that is best described as a solid piece of entertainment , perfect for a great night on the town , or as a saturday night movie rental .
either way you see it
, it should n't let you down in the slightest .
and , pun heavily intended , when it 's all said and done
, you 'll be smiling from cheek to cheek .
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P

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georges polti once wrote a paper called " the thirty - six dramatic situations , " in which he asserted the fact that all drama could be defined by no more than thirty - six different situations .
this may be the modern restatement of the biblical prophecy from ecclesiastes , " there 's nothing new under the sun .
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the faculty , the latest movie by from dusk till dawn director robert rodriguez , certainly proves this in typical hollywood fashion .
there 's not a measureable fraction of original material in this unworthy outing .
drawing elements from both the puppet masters and invasion of the body snatchers , screenwriter kevin williamson ( of scream 2 credit ) gives us a horror tale set in middle america ( ohio ) one eventful fall .
making use of a cast of unusually stock characters , williamson designs an alien invasion that will not be done independence day - style but rather " through the back door .
" parasitic aliens take over the faculty of a run - down high school and soon have infested most of the student body , leaving it up to the ensemble of principal characters to win the day .
the lack of gusto is the movie 's major stumbling block .
even though the genre has seen movies that have a lack for quality such as this , they 've been saved by an energetic approach .
this casts more than a shadow of a doubt on williamson 's ability , who enjoyed success with the wes craven - directed scream but could n't pull anything solid in for this outing or i know what you did last summer .
although he designs the faculty with more of a sci - fi bent than his typical slasher picture , it still comes down to the same results : throw the stock characters in a steel cage match and see who comes out alive .
on that level , the main roles are played by virtual unknowns .
only the recognizeable elijah wood ( deep impact ) is at the front ; other than that , the screen veterans are saved for the minor roles of the alien teachers .
perhaps williamson has it in mind to champion these up - and - comers to the fame that their scream and last summer counterparts achieved ; but to do that , they 'd all need to star in their own wb television show about the horrors of puberty a la " dawson 's creek .
" needless to say the acting is far from top notch , nor does necessity ask that it should be .
there is a moment or two of genuine horror , but
unfortunately williamson and rodriguez did not take the story far enough in the sci - fi direction to make any use of it .
in sum , the faculty was just one long shot that did not pay off .
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N