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A jumbled fantasy comedy that did not figure out a coherent game plan at scripting , shooting or post-production stages . | 1 |
A sad and rote exercise in milking a played-out idea -- a straight guy has to dress up in drag -- that shockingly manages to be even worse than its title would imply . | 1 |
We hate -LRB- Madonna -RRB- within the film 's first five minutes , and she lacks the skill or presence to regain any ground . | 1 |
Sounding like Arnold Schwarzenegger , with a physique to match , -LRB- Ahola -RRB- has a wooden delivery and encounters a substantial arc of change that does n't produce any real transformation . | 1 |
Two big things are missing -- anything approaching a visceral kick , and anything approaching even a vague reason to sit through it all . | 1 |
Scarcely worth a mention apart from reporting on the number of tumbleweeds blowing through the empty theatres graced with its company . | 1 |
And as with most late-night bull sessions , eventually the content is n't nearly as captivating as the rowdy participants think it is . | 1 |
Too stagey , talky -- and long -- for its own good . | 1 |
Apparently reassembled from the cutting-room floor of any given daytime soap . | 1 |
The sinister inspiration that fuelled DeVito 's early work is confused in Death to Smoochy into something both ugly and mindless . | 1 |
Despite Auteuil 's performance , it 's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road , where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug . | 1 |
Never comes together as a coherent whole . | 1 |
An unintentionally surreal kid 's picture ... in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a VH1 Behind the Music episode . | 1 |
First , for a movie that tries to be smart , it 's kinda dumb . | 1 |
And second , what 's with all the shooting ? | 1 |
Do n't even bother to rent this on video . | 1 |
There is something in Full Frontal , I guess , about artifice and acting and how it distorts reality for people who make movies and watch them , but like most movie riddles , it works only if you have an interest in the characters you see . | 1 |
This is the kind of movie that gets a quick release before real contenders arrive in September . | 1 |
Not counting a few gross-out comedies I 've been trying to forget , this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes . | 1 |
Plays like one long , meandering sketch inspired by the works of John Waters and Todd Solondz , rather than a fully developed story . | 1 |
The film does n't have enough innovation or pizazz to attract teenagers , and it lacks the novel charm that made Spy Kids a surprising winner with both adults and younger audiences . | 1 |
A mawkish self-parody that plays like some weird Masterpiece Theater sketch with neither a point of view nor a compelling reason for being . | 1 |
An average B-movie with no aspirations to be anything more . | 1 |
The plot is plastered with one Hollywood cliche after another , most of which involve precocious kids getting the better of obnoxious adults . | 1 |
A film that suffers because of its many excesses . | 1 |
Too bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient . | 1 |
In any case , I would recommend Big Bad Love only to Winger fans who have missed her since 1995 's Forget Paris . | 1 |
But even then , I 'd recommend waiting for DVD and just skipping straight to her scenes . | 1 |
Depicts the sorriest and most sordid of human behavior on the screen , then laughs at how clever it 's being . | 1 |
Nijinsky says , ' I know how to suffer ' and if you see this film you 'll know too . | 1 |
` CQ may one day be fondly remembered as Roman Coppola 's brief pretentious period before going on to other films that actually tell a story worth caring about | 1 |
The only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie . | 1 |
... the story simply putters along looking for astute observations and coming up blank . | 1 |
Instead of contriving a climactic hero 's death for the beloved-major - character-who-shall - remain-nameless , why not invite some genuine spontaneity into the film by having the evil aliens ' laser guns actually hit something for once ? | 1 |
It just did n't mean much to me and played too skewed to ever get a hold on -LRB- or be entertained by -RRB- . | 1 |
This action-thriller\/dark comedy is one of the most repellent things to pop up in a cinematic year already littered with celluloid garbage . | 1 |
MIB II is a movie that makes it possible for the viewer to doze off for a few minutes or make several runs to the concession stand and\/or restroom and not feel as if he or she has missed anything . | 1 |
That 's because relatively nothing happens . | 1 |
No amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are ` German-Expressionist , ' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable . | 1 |
Blue Crush follows the formula , but throws in too many conflicts to keep the story compelling . | 1 |
Boyd 's screenplay -LRB- co-written with Guardian hack Nick Davies -RRB- has a florid turn of phrase that owes more to Guy Ritchie than the Bard of Avon . | 1 |
There 's not a spark of new inspiration in it , just more of the same , done with noticeably less energy and imagination . | 1 |
Jackson shamefully strolls through this mess with a smug grin , inexplicably wearing a kilt and carrying a bag of golf clubs over one shoulder . | 1 |
A moving picture that does not move . | 1 |
Romething 's really wrong with this ricture ! | 1 |
Its salient points are simultaneously buried , drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director Roger Avary . | 1 |
I 'm not sure these words have ever been together in the same sentence : This erotic cannibal movie is boring . | 1 |
` God help us , but Capra and Cooper are rolling over in their graves . ' | 1 |
... an hour-and-a-half of inoffensive , unmemorable filler . | 1 |
Is it a comedy ? | 1 |
A cartoon ? | 1 |
Yes . | 0 |
No. . | 1 |
And that is where Ararat went astray . | 1 |
It 's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit . | 1 |
Has a customarily jovial air but a deficit of flim-flam inventiveness . | 1 |
Eight Legged Freaks wo n't join the pantheon of great monster\/science fiction flicks that we have come to love ... | 1 |
It gets the details of its time frame right but it completely misses its emotions . | 1 |
Who , exactly , is fighting whom here ? | 1 |
Ah , yes , that would be me : fighting off the urge to doze . | 1 |
A kilted Jackson is an unsettling sight , and indicative of his , if you will , out-of-kilter character , who rambles aimlessly through ill-conceived action pieces . | 1 |
Contrived , awkward and filled with unintended laughs , the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster . | 1 |
Starts out with tremendous promise , introducing an intriguing and alluring premise , only to fall prey to a boatload of screenwriting cliches that sink it faster than a leaky freighter . | 1 |
The film lapses too often into sugary sentiment and withholds delivery on the pell-mell pyrotechnics its punchy style promises . | 1 |
The only question ... is to determine how well the schmaltz is manufactured -- to assess the quality of the manipulative engineering . | 1 |
Average , at best , I 'm afraid . | 1 |
This movie is so bad , that it 's almost worth seeing because it 's so bad . | 1 |
This movie feel more like a non-stop cry for attention , than an attempt at any kind of satisfying entertainment . | 1 |
Love may have been in the air onscreen , but I certainly was n't feeling any of it . | 1 |
In addition to the overcooked , ham-fisted direction , which has all the actors reaching for the back row , the dialogue sounds like horrible poetry . | 1 |
The very definition of what critics have come to term an `` ambitious failure . '' | 1 |
It 's as if De Palma spent an hour setting a fancy table and then served up Kraft Macaroni and Cheese . | 1 |
The movie ends with outtakes in which most of the characters forget their lines and just utter ` uhhh , ' which is better than most of the writing in the movie . | 1 |
Worthy of the gong . | 1 |
While certainly more naturalistic than its Australian counterpart , Amari 's film falls short in building the drama of Lilia 's journey . | 1 |
I found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays . | 1 |
The soul-searching deliberateness of the film , although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit , eventually becomes too heavy for the plot . | 1 |
The movie does n't add anything fresh to the myth . | 1 |
As inept as big-screen remakes of The Avengers and The Wild Wild West . | 1 |
Comes across as a relic from a bygone era , and its convolutions ... feel silly rather than plausible . | 1 |
Moves in such odd plot directions and descends into such message-mongering moralism that its good qualities are obscured . | 1 |
It 's a very sincere work , but it would be better as a diary or documentary . | 0 |
Once one experiences Mr. Haneke 's own sadistic tendencies toward his audience , one is left with a sour taste in one 's mouth , and little else . | 1 |
That chirpy songbird Britney Spears has popped up with more mindless drivel . | 1 |
It 's a loathsome movie , it really is and it makes absolutely no sense . | 1 |
A chiller resolutely without chills . | 1 |
For those of us who respond more strongly to storytelling than computer-generated effects , the new Star Wars installment has n't escaped the rut dug by the last one . | 1 |
The director mostly plays it straight , turning Leys ' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder . | 1 |
`` Bad '' is the operative word for `` Bad Company , '' and I do n't mean that in a good way . | 1 |
Though Frida is easier to swallow than Julie Taymor 's preposterous Titus , the eye candy here lacks considerable brio . | 1 |
Drumline is -- the mere suggestion , albeit a visually compelling one , of a fully realized story . | 0 |
The whole movie is simply a lazy exercise in bad filmmaking that asks you to not only suspend your disbelief but your intelligence as well . | 1 |
Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro sleepwalk through vulgarities in a sequel you can refuse . | 1 |
It 's loud and boring ; watching it is like being trapped at a bad rock concert . | 1 |
Merely -LRB- and literally -RRB- tosses around sex toys and offers half-hearted paeans to empowerment that are repeatedly undercut by the brutality of the jokes , most at women 's expense . | 1 |
If you want a movie time trip , the 1960 version is a far smoother ride . | 1 |
The story is -- forgive me -- a little thin , and the filmmaking clumsy and rushed . | 1 |
... grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . | 1 |
This would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . | 1 |
Aggressive self-glorification and a manipulative whitewash . | 1 |
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