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Outlandish premise that rates low on plausibility and unfortunately also struggles feebly to raise laughs or interest.
The premise was intriguing, but sadly this film just doesn't do any justice to it.
The basic premise is an affair between a teacher/coach a student.
The premise of the show is interesting.
This film offers absolutely no imagination in it's premise nor in it's execution but these are just two things that come to mind after watching this so-called comedy that has no energy to speak of.
The premise of the film has a new young lady coming to Rosalie to take care of her.
The premise is absurd.
However, I don't think I would have understood the premise of the movie if I hadn't already read the book.
The premise of this movie, which somehow seems to get lost in the shuffle, is that these two self-centered adults have a perfect right to go off to Las Vegas, get drunk, get married, and inflict incalculable suffering upon their respective broods of children.
Sometimes a premise starts out good, but because of the demands of having to go overboard to meet the demands of an audience suffering from attention-deficit disorder, it devolves into an incongruous mess.
The premise was not too bad.
I sat through this turkey because I hadn't seen it before, and because the premise sounded like it had potential.
Before seeing it I had a fairly good idea that it wouldn't be genius - the premise seemed far too silly and stupid for anything good to come out of it, but at the back of my mind I was thinking "but there must be something good about it for UMA THURMAN and Luke Wilson do to the film..." not that I think either of them are particularly terrific but they are big-named stars who would normally only do films that would enhance their reputations.
Why did the studio take a perfectly good premise and "Hollywood" the hell out of it when all it needed was good, smart story telling?
While the premise (change in colour/gender/whatever) is bad enough (and has been done, better, many times before)the actual transformation of two black guys into two white girls is one of the least convincing transformations ever put on screen.
I just watched this movie and I've gotta say that with such a great premise and great talent this turkey just lays there!!!
The premise of Cabin Fever starts like it MIGHT have something to offer.
They've completely ruined the premise of the show.
The premise of the story is a widow and her daughter and they move to the west to be a house keeper of this cowboy.
This film is so unbelievable; - the whole premise is bunkum; the fact that a serial killer (vampire or otherwise) could fly around untraced and kill as many people as the film implies is laughable.
The premise was O.K, but the plot itself was terrible.
Okay I understand the premise and the idea sound but, give us a break!
There's a brief premise, which sets up the hero (co-author and Shipman's boyfriend) to have to save the girl (played by Shipman), then it's nothing but an exciting, implausible chase from there.
The premise of the film is that Thomas Archer's son was murdered and his wife was brutalized -- and he is given a chance at revenge when (after Post Traumatic Stress Disorder therapy), he is put in a room with a man strapped to a chair and told this was the culprit.
The premise isn't necessarily bad either though: kids go to a cabin for a week of partying, only to come across a very sick man, covered in blood, whom in a panic they set on fire.
Within 15 minutes, the entire premise is laid out in just a few lines, so there is absolutely no mystery, which eliminates a whole facet of the suspense.
The premise of this flick is pretty lame.
The premise of this movie is revealed on the DVD box.
This is their premise?
The moral dilemma faced by the main character is an intriguing one, but due to poor writing and casting this potentially winning premise is plundered.
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