In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
One example is below.
Q: plot : two teen couples go to a church party , drink and then drive .
they get into an accident .
one of the guys dies , but his girlfriend continues to see him in her life , and has nightmares .
what 's the deal ?
watch the movie and " sorta " find out . . .
critique : a mind - fuck movie for the teen generation that touches on a very cool idea , but presents it in a very bad package .
which is what makes this review an even harder one to write , since i generally applaud films which attempt to break the mold , mess with your head and such ( lost highway & memento ) , but there are good and bad ways of making all types of films , and these folks just did n't snag this one correctly
.
they seem to have taken this pretty neat concept , but executed it terribly .
so what are the problems with the movie ?
well , its main problem is that it 's simply too jumbled
.
it starts off " normal " but then downshifts into this " fantasy " world in which you , as an audience member ,
have no idea what 's going on
.
there are dreams , there are characters coming back from the dead , there are others who look like the dead , there are strange apparitions , there are disappearances , there are a looooot of chase scenes , there are tons of weird things that happen , and most of it is simply not explained .
now i personally do n't mind trying to unravel a film every now and then , but when all it does is give me the same clue over and over again , i get kind of fed up after a while , which is this film 's biggest problem .
it 's obviously got this big secret to hide , but it seems to want to hide it completely until its final five minutes .
and do they make things entertaining , thrilling or even engaging , in the meantime ?
not really .
the sad part is that the arrow and i both dig on flicks like this , so we actually figured most of it out by the half - way point , so all of the strangeness after that did start to make a little bit of sense , but it still did n't the make the film all that more entertaining .
i guess the bottom line with movies like this is that you should always make sure that the audience is " into it " even before they are given the secret password to enter your world of understanding .
i mean , showing melissa sagemiller running away from visions for about 20 minutes throughout the movie is just plain lazy ! !
okay , we get it .
. .
there are people chasing her and we do n't know who they are .
do we really need to see it over and over again ?
how about giving us different scenes offering further insight into all of the strangeness going down in the movie ?
apparently , the studio took this film away from its director and chopped it up themselves , and it shows .
there might 've been a pretty decent teen mind - fuck movie in here somewhere , but i guess " the suits " decided that turning it into a music video with little edge , would make more sense .
the actors are pretty good for the most part , although wes bentley just seemed to be playing the exact same character that he did in american beauty , only in a new neighborhood .
but my biggest kudos go out to sagemiller , who holds her own throughout the entire film , and actually has you feeling her character 's unraveling .
overall , the film does n't stick
because it does n't entertain , it 's confusing , it rarely excites and
it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime , despite a pretty cool ending and explanation to all of the craziness that came before it .
oh ,
and by the way , this is not a horror or teen slasher flick . . .
it 's just packaged to look that way because someone is apparently assuming that the genre is still hot with the kids .
it also wrapped production two years ago and has been sitting on the shelves ever since .
whatever . .
. skip it !
where 's joblo coming from ?
a nightmare of elm street 3 ( 7/10 ) - blair witch 2 ( 7/10 ) - the crow ( 9/10 ) - the crow : salvation ( 4/10 )
- lost highway ( 10/10 ) - memento ( 10/10 ) - the others ( 9/10 ) - stir of echoes ( 8/10 )
A: N
Rationale: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").
Q: mike myers , you certainly did throw us a ? frickin ' bone here in what you call ?
the biggest austin powers adventure yet . '
austin powers :
the spy who shagged me is the sequel to the 1997 smash comedy austin powers : international man of mystery .
many are skeptical about sequels , saying that the sequel is never better or as good as the original , but austin powers : tswsm goes beyond the first film .
austin powers :
the spy who shagged me stars mike myers in three different roles .
he reprises his role as the title character , austin powers , the shagadelic spy whose body was frozen in 1967 , and unfrozen in 1997 to stop his long time nemesis dr .
evil , also played by mike myers , from destroying the earth .
tswsm leaves off where the original stopped , with dr .
evil 's ?
frisch 's big boy ' space capsule floating through space .
dr .
evil returns back to earth by ejecting from his capsule , plotting to go back in his time machine to the year 1967 , in which he plans to steal austin powers ' " mojo " ,
what keeps austin going with spy talents .
upon his return to his secret lair , which is now a starbucks coffee shop , dr .
evil learns that his evil henchman , which includes the returning robert wagner as number 2 and mindy sterling as frau , have created a 1/8 size clone of dr .
evil , which is later named mini me .
the evil mini me replaces scott evil , played by seth green , as dr .
evil 's son in the madman 's mind ,
because dr .
evil thinks of scott to be only " quasi - evil .
"
dr .
evil has always wanted a son that is evil just like him , and now he has one .
dr .
evil tells mini me , " you complete me , " in a loving manner .
dr .
evil loving ?
wow !
mike myers ' third role is as fat bastard , a scottish henchman of dr .
evil 's , who is sent to steal the mojo from austin powers ' frozen body .
austin powers learns of dr .
evil 's trip back into the 60s , and uses his own time machine to take him back to 1967 , to try to save his mojo before fat bastard gets a hold of it .
once arriving in the year 1967 , austin travels to his " pad " , his smashing home / dance club , where he meets felicity shagwell , played by heather graham , a cia agent who is willing to help him in his journey to stop dr .
evil .
as the film progresses , hilarious one liners are thrown at us , mainly by dr .
evil , for example , " do n't go there , girlfriend ! " to the president of the united states .
many witty gags take place , note the entire tent scene , and just plain , funny scenes which are so stupid-
they 're funny
come a dozen per fifteen minutes .
take for example , scott evil going on the jerry springer show complaining about how evil his father is .
the way austin powers : tswsm uses its humor is clever , throwing a hilarious scene at you , followed by five minutes of one liners , followed by another outrageous scene , so
you never stop laughing .
there was honestly not one moment in austin powers :
tswsm where i was n't laughing .
the last film that i laughed so hard in , was well , austin powers !
it is apparent that mike myers knew how funny this film was while writing it .
the film even makes fun of itself in a line , something along the lines of , " it 's funny how england and southern california look nothing alike .
"
tswsm was filmed in southern california , but was supposed to take place in england .
i can tell you one thing-
he is having a lot of fun with this enormously popular character , which is all over television , newspapers , magazines , and the movie theaters .
i believe that dr .
evil got more attention in the tswsm than austin powers did .
dr .
evil provided more laughs , more memorable moments , and more interesting dialogue than austin
did this time around , who seems to missing the funny touch that he had in the first film .
i felt that austin really did have his mojo taken away , but from screenplay writer mike myers , not fat bastard . also making a great addition to the series is mini me , who is played by verne troyer .
even though the midget actor is 30 years old , he is adorable by dr .
evil 's side constantly .
the first austin powers film had barely any sentimental quality , such as lack of character development , barely any detailed plot characteristics , and barely any good acting , but austin powers tswsm
actually shows some quality behind the frequent humor .
mike myers , with his three roles , acts as eddie murphy did in the nutty professor , disguising himself completely in one of the roles .
( fat bastard )
all three characters are different , and mike myers does do a good job handling each one of them .
heather graham made a great addition with her talent to tswsm , and does a much better job than elizabeth hurley did , who gave a very flat performance in the original , speaking her lines without any feeling or emotion .
speaking of hurley , she can be seen in tswsm for a few brief moments .
hopefully , graham tags along for future austin powers adventures .
the bottom line- a groovy sequel that mike myers put all of his mojo into writing .
A:
P