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will strike some westerners as verging on mumbo-jumbo Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
as i laughed throughout the movie Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
impossibly contrived situations Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
fails to fulfill its own ambitious goals Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
a moral tale with a twisted sense of humor Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
is the best ` old neighborhood ' project Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
others will find their humor-seeking dollars best spent elsewhere . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
make italian for beginners worth the journey Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
most good-hearted Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
a chilling tale of one of the great crimes of 20th century france Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
a competent , unpretentious entertainment destined to fill the after-school slot at shopping mall theaters across the country . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
poignant and funny Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
thanks to a small star with big heart Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
impersonal and abstract Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
it 's a glorious spectacle like those d.w. griffith made in the early days of silent film . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
-- the real issues tucked between the silly and crude storyline Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
if you 're a fan of the series you 'll love it and probably want to see it twice . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
it misses a major opportunity to be truly revelatory about his psyche . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
the nonstop artifice ultimately proves tiresome , with the surface histrionics failing to compensate for the paper-thin characterizations and facile situations . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
too many chefs fussing over too weak a recipe Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
accents so good Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
a classy , sprightly spin on film Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
an original Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
a thing that already knows it 's won Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
as punching bags Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
nothing to sneeze at these days Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
ms. paltrow employs to authenticate her british persona Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
good-natured Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
star to play second fiddle to the dull effects that allow the suit to come to life Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue , only to be revealed by the dispassionate gantz brothers as ordinary , pasty lumpen Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
brought to life on the big screen Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
an entertaining movie Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
is a very funny , heartwarming film . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid americans will get a kick out of goofy brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
encounter in a place where war has savaged the lives and liberties of the poor and the dispossessed . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
that gets under your skin Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
be half as entertaining as it is Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
turn out to be a bit of a cheat in the end Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
a rote exercise in both animation and storytelling . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
a rollicking adventure for you Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
that even its target audience talked all the way through it Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
prickly indie comedy Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
halfway through this picture i was beginning to hate it , and , of course Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
ethics Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
that rare animal known as ' a perfect family film Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
other feel-good fiascos like antwone fisher or the emperor 's club any time Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
and crude film Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
could n't find stardom if mapquest emailed him point-to-point driving directions . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
with real world events Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
it is depressing , ruthlessly pained and depraved , the movie equivalent of staring into an open wound . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
mcgrath has deftly trimmed dickens ' wonderfully sprawling soap opera , the better to focus on the hero 's odyssey from cowering poverty to courage and happiness . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
sanctimonious , self-righteous and Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
it 's got all the familiar bruckheimer elements , and schumacher does probably as good a job as anyone at bringing off the hopkins/rock collision of acting styles and onscreen personas Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
acceptable , occasionally very enjoyable Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
one of those crass , contrived sequels that not only fails on its own , but makes you second-guess your affection for the original Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
the spy kids franchise establishes itself as a durable part of the movie landscape : a james bond series for kids . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
is why anybody picked it up . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
vibrantly colored and beautifully designed , metropolis is a feast for the eyes . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
like some sort of martha stewart decorating program run amok Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
seems to have been ` it 's just a kids ' flick Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
that takes itself all too seriously Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
with a deft sense of humor about itself , a playful spirit and a game cast Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
has a dashing and resourceful hero ; a lisping , reptilian villain ; big fights ; big hair ; lavish period scenery ; and a story just complicated enough to let you bask in your own cleverness as you figure it out . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
even slightly wised-up kids would quickly change the channel Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
through their consistently sensitive and often exciting treatment of an ignored people Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
the picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life , but also acknowledging the places , and the people , from whence you came . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
's remarkable procession of sweeping pictures that have reinvigorated the romance genre Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
the piano teacher is not an easy film . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
manages the rare trick of seeming at once both refreshingly different and reassuringly familiar Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
daft by half ... but supremely good natured Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
much power Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
of carnage Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
this picture Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
increasingly diverse french director Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
muddled , simplistic and more than a little pretentious Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
features nonsensical and laughable plotting Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
served by the movie 's sophomoric blend of shenanigans and slapstick Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
's plenty to offend everyone Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
reduces the complexities to bromides and slogans Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
save their children Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
that 's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
surprisingly touching Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
come along that turns me into that annoying specimen of humanity that i usually dread encountering the most - the fanboy Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
worked five years ago but has since lost its fizz Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
's one of the worst of the entire franchise . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
, the rest of us will be lulled into a coma . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
an obvious rapport with her actors Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
a cinematic disaster so inadvertently sidesplitting it 's worth the price of admission for the ridicule factor alone . Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
existential exploration Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
road movie , coming-of-age story and political satire Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
commercialism all in the same movie ... without neglecting character development for even one minute Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
may not be cutting-edge indie filmmaking Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
inspire anything more than a visit to mcdonald 's , let alone Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
both shrill and soporific , and because everything Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
sinister Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
than a modem that disconnects every 10 seconds Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
aground Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative
amazing Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
have an opportunity to triumphantly sermonize Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: positive
for that comes through all too painfully in the execution Question: Is this sentence positive or negative? Answer: negative