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Director John De Bello uses the basic premise that some sort of growth hormone has gone terribly wrong and turned the tomatoes into killers.
Agonisingly slow to develop a non-existent plot based on a promising premise, the experience is, shall we say, trying.
The premise was not uninteresting, but the movie starts and ends there.
As a huge fan, I was sure he'd be supremely in his element with such a promising premise, and what could go wrong?
I thought I'd give the movie a chance, since the premise was perfect for a prequel.
Given that a lot of horror films are based on the premise that one or more of the central characters does something stupid at some stage during the proceedings, the girls in this film would be collecting Gold, Silver and Bronze at a Darwin Awards Olympic ceremony.
This movie could have been great(cause its got a somewhat fascinating premise) but it never rises above sheer caricature.
But then again, gentlemen prefer brunettes ;) Well, anyway, the whole premise is that society is superficial and if love is true it transcends all social facades; the way they showed this, with a dude shaving another's scrotum and the million-times-mutilated-and-beaten-to-death-horse premature ejaculation routine (with obvious allusions to American Pie and Happiness - the latter in the disgusting scene denouement involving the family dog).
The basic premise of problems related to loneliness due to chronic sexual drought is fine but the film goes out of hand once the hero starts recounting the misery faced by him and his friend.Instead of sticking to its main topic the film veers in other directions leading to its downfall.Beware:some women viewers might find not only the film but even its two heroes as moronic misogynists.
Ninety minutes of preparation-- with the premise that the Rob Lowe character will die on Christmas Eve-- is explained away in literally ninety seconds of "No we were just tricking you."
Movie had some good acting and good moments (though obviously pretty low budget), but bad rating due to basic premise being badly developed.
Even the premise is pretty weak; there are a few jokes about having multiple wives, but the situation has little to do with anything else in the movie.
Most of the movie could play the same way even if Rodney's character had only one wife, so the premise seems more like an old man's fantasy than a key part of the comedy.
The premise seemed enjoyable: Boreanaz is Lance Valenteen, proprietor of a business called "Mr.
First off, the premise is not funny or engaging at all.
An intriguing premise of hand-drawn fantasy come to life in a child's fever dreams.
I find it cute, cute how so many fledgling directors make movies where they combine other people's creative ideas in order to make their own one-joke premise of a movie.
it was an interesting premise, and seemed like it could go somewhere, but just fell apart every time it tried to do anything.
It was a bad premise to begin with, first pregnant male, but then they tried to make it a spoof.
Now, the first 1.5 hours were action packed, though absurd in the premise, and then it deteriorated into a slow, painful, sophomoric dissolution of the series.
Having said that, the characters were well developed, the windego myth was used in a unique premise and the house was pretty spooky but it just missed for me.
The premise of this film is quite promising, Jack Black and Ben Stiller in a comedy with a lot of potential, but it completely fails to deliver.
Nor the premise that he was being chased by secret government authorities for an human / wolf transplant.
I blame the director not using the premise to it's full potential.
This premise built much tension and suspension and ended greatly with the climax.
It seems a shame that people would spend so much time and effort producing something so poor, when really they could have made something pretty decent out of the premise (albeit not very believable!), but instead we are treated to a rather nauseating and cheesy tale of dragons and knights, that lacks any of the charm to be found in other such fantasy films.
It's an interesting, and promising premise, but unfortunately, it fails to deploy.
An interesting premise at the beginning is completely abandoned by the time the credits roll.
The premise is that a modern filmmaker is interpreting a 17th century fable about the loves of shepherds and shepherdesses set in the distant past when Druids were the spiritual leaders.
Here, he takes a somewhat interesting (albeit farfetched) premise, and turns it into bubble gum that loses flavor the moment you take the first bite... Dunst is not bad, but Izzard is miscast as Chaplin, and all the other actors seem to have been cast for their "looks", and not because they were right for the part.
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