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The acting is stilted, and the attempts at comedy are woefully out of place and forced.
It contains some of the worst attempts at comedy I've ever witnessed with mediocre acting to boot.
The cast for this "work" should seriously consider going back to work at their respective hamburger joints or shoe stores and forget about any future feeble attempts at appearing in front of a camera.
Another retarded part is when Norman spills the invisibility potion on himself as he attempts to keep it from spilling.
Even-though the production value was good, the ill written story just compounded on top of the bad performance of the actors, and there is even a half-hearted attempts to a twist to the ending of the movie, which ends up quite confusing.
Britain should have learned that rip offs from other countries never work from looking at America's sad attempts at doing so.
Third, the attempts at "modern" humor all fall through.
Poor attempts at scaring the audience range from blurred coats that look like people to building the tense music up for a cat running out of the shadows.
After watching the continuously sub-par, unfunny attempts by the actors to solicit some laughs, I am left wondering whether the live audience is genuinely laughing at what transpires, or whether they, too, are improvising.
There have been no less than three attempts at an animated series for Iron Man and only the original and part of the second have ever done the character justice.
This movie attempts to make social comments and be artfully intelligent.
Comedy has never been his strong suit, and here his attempts at screwball farce are clumsily done.
This documentary attempts comedy, but never quite gets there for me.
River Queen attempts to pack a complicated, sweeping, historical narrative into just under two hours.
Working from a screenplay by David Shaber, from Murray Teigh Bloom's novel, Demme attempts to strike a chord somewhere between Alan J. Pakula's paranoia dramas and Hitchcock's dangling-participle thrillers.
This is among one of many USA attempts of remaking a old classic British TV show, that's more famous than this one.
The big problem with it is that it simply isn't convincing, not just its creature, but acting, writing and any attempts at drama.
"Cemetery Man" attempts to incorporate every element it can, like horror, romance, comedy, action, and fails entirely in the long-run.
The pace is acceptable and the attempts to build up suspense are pretty cute.
This movie at least attempts to stick to all that, even though it was a bad story it was still somewhat hellraiser.
Lewis attempts to pass for a child when boarding a train; he's successful, but the deception leads to a string of comic and romantic confusions.
However, as it goes on the attempts at creating emotions between the characters is so inept that it really turns the horror off and is an insult to serious viewers.
This film, which was barely released, is just an extension of her late '80s/early '90s attempts to find a screen-persona which was identifiable to moviegoers, and it represents another failure.
Back in the cold and creepy early 90's,a show called "Family Matters" aired and became an instant classic.The trick was to buy a manual in standard family situations and their solutions and insert some attempts to sarcastic remarks in it and you had yourself a lovely little stealing-is-wrong,parents-are-right-show.
Superficial and artificial, with frequent attempts to look professional through references to technology the way a five year-old tries to make it sound as if he knows what he's talking about.
Snafu attempts to get word out to his girlfriend that he's to be stationed in the South Pacific but the Censor foils each attempt he makes to send the letter.
The only attempts at dramatic effect were at the very end of each piece when the movie would cut to trees waving in the wind or little wavelets lapping at a beach.
None of the characters are helped by the script, which is almost childishly ridiculous in the way it attempts to explain scientific concepts unscientifically, offers the most unrealistic stock relationship between Mr. Cusack and Ms. Dern imaginable, doesn't even give us the cheap thrill of watching the army drop nuclear bombs on Japan, and relies heavily on voice-over-a technique that is evil anytime, even when explaining a characters true innermost thoughts, or for the narration of something that cannot be possibly show on the film medium, but is used here to read some absolutely trite selections out of Cusack's diary.
As a result, it is often painful to watch, all the more so because of good attempts on the part of the performers, particularly Adam Goldberg as the HH himself.
I do not generally appreciate light-weight attempts at creating humourous stories, which means that "Anita no perd el Tren" cannot score very high for me.
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