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the master of disguise is funny--not " ha ha " funny , " dead circus performer " funny . and for all the wrong reasons besides . | 0neg |
a zippy 96 minutes of mediocre special effects , hoary dialogue , fluxing accents , and -- worst of all -- silly-looking morlocks . | 0neg |
a 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless , witless , and devoid of anything resembling humor . | 0neg |
you leave feeling like you've endured a long workout without your pulse ever racing . | 0neg |
the waterlogged script plumbs uncharted depths of stupidity , incoherence and sub-sophomoric sexual banter . | 0neg |
with mcconaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids , there's not enough intelligence , wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd . | 0neg |
it's the type of stunt the academy loves : a powerful political message stuffed into an otherwise mediocre film . | 0neg |
in theory , a middle-aged romance pairing clayburgh and tambor sounds promising , but in practice it's something else altogether -- clownish and offensive and nothing at all like real life . | 0neg |
so mind-numbingly awful that you hope britney won't do it one more time , as far as movies are concerned . | 0neg |
the images are usually abbreviated in favor of mushy obviousness and telegraphed pathos , particularly where whitaker's misfit artist is concerned . | 0neg |
if welles was unhappy at the prospect of the human race splitting in two , he probably wouldn't be too crazy with his great-grandson's movie splitting up in pretty much the same way . | 0neg |
sets animation back 30 years , musicals back 40 years and judaism back at least 50 . | 0neg |
weirdly , broomfield has compelling new material but he doesn't unveil it until the end , after endless scenes of him wheedling reluctant witnesses and pointing his camera through the smeared windshield of his rental car . | 0neg |
might best be enjoyed as a daytime soaper . | 0neg |
eventually arrives at its heart , as simple self-reflection meditation . | 0neg |
a showcase for both the scenic splendor of the mountains and for legendary actor michel serrault , the film is less successful on other levels . | 0neg |
boy oh boy , it's a howler . | 0neg |
a few pieces of the film buzz and whir ; very little of it actually clicks . the thing just never gets off the ground . | 0neg |
. . . contains very few laughs and even less surprises . | 0neg |
the actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face . | 0neg |
most of the storylines feel like time fillers between surf shots . the movie isn't horrible , but you can see mediocre cresting on the next wave . | 0neg |
however stale the material , lawrence's delivery remains perfect ; his great gift is that he can actually trick you into thinking some of this worn-out , pandering palaver is actually funny . | 0neg |
there's nothing remotely topical or sexy here . | 0neg |
the tuxedo wasn't just bad ; it was , as my friend david cross would call it , 'hungry-man portions of bad' . | 0neg |
blue crush is so prolonged and boring it isn't even close to being the barn-burningly bad movie it promised it would be . | 0neg |
the sequel plays out like a flimsy excuse to give blade fans another look at wesley snipes' iconic hero doing battle with dozens of bad guys -- at once . | 0neg |
while van wilder may not be the worst national lampoon film , it's far from being this generation's animal house . | 0neg |
so devoid of pleasure or sensuality that it cannot even be dubbed hedonistic . | 0neg |
reeks of rot and hack work from start to finish . | 0neg |
an exhausting family drama about a porcelain empire and just as hard a flick as its subject matter . | 0neg |
woody allen has really found his groove these days . the problem is that it is one that allows him to churn out one mediocre movie after another . | 0neg |
the bland outweighs the nifty , and cletis tout never becomes the clever crime comedy it thinks it is . | 0neg |
it's such a mechanical endeavor [that] it never bothers to question why somebody might devote time to see it . | 0neg |
the art direction is often exquisite , and the anthropomorphic animal characters are beautifully realized through clever makeup design , leaving one to hope that the eventual dvd release will offer subtitles and the original italian-language soundtrack . | 0neg |
if the predictability of bland comfort food appeals to you , then the film is a pleasant enough dish . | 0neg |
ultimately , in the history of the academy , people may be wondering what all that jazz was about " chicago " in 2002 . zellweger's whiny pouty-lipped poof faced and spindly attempt at playing an ingenue makes her nomination as best actress even more of a an a | 0neg |
a seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director kurt wimmer at the screenplay level . | 0neg |
a pleasant and engaging enough sit , but in trying to have the best of both worlds it ends up falling short as a whole . | 0neg |
its plot and animation offer daytime tv serviceability , but little more . | 0neg |
a tired , unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre . | 0neg |
human nature , in short , isn't nearly as funny as it thinks it is ; neither is it as smart . | 0neg |
a film with a great premise but only a great premise . | 0neg |
instead of building to a laugh riot we are left with a handful of disparate funny moments of no real consequence . | 0neg |
kirshner and monroe seem to be in a contest to see who can out-bad-act the other . ( kirshner wins , but it's close . ) | 0neg |
a lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her . | 0neg |
what started out as a taut contest of wills between bacon and theron , deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence . | 0neg |
[sam's] self-flagellation is more depressing than entertaining . | 0neg |
an ugly , pointless , stupid movie . | 0neg |
simply put , there should have been a more compelling excuse to pair susan sarandon and goldie hawn . | 0neg |
the master of disguise represents adam sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe . | 0neg |
this is an ungainly movie , ill-fitting , with its elbows sticking out where the knees should be . | 0neg |
too silly to take seriously . | 0neg |
obvious | 0neg |
the inevitable double- and triple-crosses arise , but the only drama is in waiting to hear how john malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line . | 0neg |
everything's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull . | 0neg |
i like it . no , i hate it . no , i love it . . . hell , i dunno . | 0neg |
this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy . | 0neg |
it's clotted with heavy-handed symbolism , dime-store psychology and endless scenic shots that make 105 minutes seem twice as long . | 0neg |
a fifty car pileup of cliches . | 0neg |
it's a stale , overused cocktail using the same olives since 1962 as garnish . not only is entry number twenty the worst of the brosnan bunch , it's one of the worst of the entire franchise . | 0neg |
what ultimately makes windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story . | 0neg |
as an actor's showcase , hart's war has much to recommend it , even if the top-billed willis is not the most impressive player . as a story of dramatic enlightenment , the screenplay by billy ray and terry george leaves something to be desired . | 0neg |
a non-britney person might survive a screening with little harm done , except maybe for the last 15 minutes , which are as maudlin as any after-school special you can imagine . | 0neg |
it's not hateful . it's simply stupid , irrelevant and deeply , truly , bottomlessly cynical . | 0neg |
possibly not since grumpy old men have i heard a film so solidly connect with one demographic while striking out with another . | 0neg |
the drama was so uninspiring that even a story immersed in love , lust , and sin couldn't keep my attention . | 0neg |
a rather tired exercise in nostalgia . | 0neg |
the misery of these people becomes just another voyeuristic spectacle , to be consumed and forgotten . | 0neg |
some body often looks like an episode of the tv show blind date , only less technically proficient and without the pop-up comments . | 0neg |
bad company has one of the most moronic screenplays of the year , full of holes that will be obvious even to those who aren't looking for them . | 0neg |
predecessors the mummy and the mummy returns stand as intellectual masterpieces next to the scorpion king . | 0neg |
a markedly inactive film , city is conversational bordering on confessional . | 0neg |
while kids will probably eat the whole thing up , most adults will be way ahead of the plot . | 0neg |
its one-sidedness . . . flirts with propaganda . | 0neg |
despite an impressive roster of stars and direction from kathryn bigelow , the weight of water is oppressively heavy . | 0neg |
we've liked klein's other work but rollerball left us cold . | 0neg |
they were afraid to show this movie to reviewers before its opening , afraid of the bad reviews they thought they'd earn . they were right . | 0neg |
it would be churlish to begrudge anyone for receiving whatever consolation that can be found in dragonfly , yet it is impossible to find the film anything but appalling , shamelessly manipulative and contrived , and totally lacking in conviction . | 0neg |
offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life . | 0neg |
nohe has made a decent 'intro' documentary , but he feels like a spectator and not a participant . | 0neg |
apparently designed as a reverie about memory and regret , but the only thing you'll regret is remembering the experience of sitting through it . | 0neg |
a 94-minute travesty of unparalleled proportions , writer-director parker seems to go out of his way to turn the legendary wit's classic mistaken identity farce into brutally labored and unfunny hokum . | 0neg |
guy gets girl , guy loses girl , audience falls asleep . | 0neg |
too ordinary to restore [harmon] to prominence , despite some creepy scenes that evoke childish night terrors , and a praiseworthy attempt to generate suspense rather than gross out the audience . | 0neg |
stirs potentially enticing ingredients into an uneasy blend of ghost and close encounters of the third kind . | 0neg |
the weird thing about the santa clause 2 , purportedly a children's movie , is that there is nothing in it to engage children emotionally . | 0neg |
it's pretentious in a way that verges on the amateurish . | 0neg |
contains the humor , characterization , poignancy , and intelligence of a bad sitcom . | 0neg |
it doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes . it still feels like a prison stretch . | 0neg |
partly a schmaltzy , by-the-numbers romantic comedy , partly a shallow rumination on the emptiness of success -- and entirely soulless . | 0neg |
ong chooses to present ah na's life as a slight , weightless fairy tale , whose most unpleasant details seem to melt away in the face of the character's blank-faced optimism . | 0neg |
the overall feel is not unlike watching a glorified episode of " 7th heaven . " | 0neg |
just a kiss is a just a waste . | 0neg |
. . . this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism ; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels . | 0neg |
frankly , it's kind of insulting , both to men and women . and it's not that funny -- which is just generally insulting . | 0neg |
as if drop dead gorgeous wasn't enough , this equally derisive clunker is fixated on the spectacle of small-town competition . | 0neg |
a wretched movie that reduces the second world war to one man's quest to find an old flame . | 0neg |
this is a remake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie . | 0neg |
it's better than mid-range steven seagal , but not as sharp as jet li on rollerblades . | 0neg |
no dia em que aceitou dirigir esta continuação , harold ramis deve ter saído da cama com o pé esquerdo . e aqueles que decidiram assistir a este filme também . | 0neg |
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