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Bette Davis and Henry Fonda are real winners of this antebellum novel, so sweet, but so threateningly looming, as the news of the forthcoming Civil War is spread all the time in the film and the peaceful routine is soon to be rudely interrupted by the horrible conflict of two cultures and two worlds.
The supporting cast is even better, with Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Archer, and especially Robert Forster and Douglas, adding nice animation to a relatively routine script.
The kind of creativity Martin, Carl Reiner and the rest of the DMDWP crew put into their project needs to be strongly encouraged -- as it represents excellent comic film-making, as opposed to the witless parade of routine crudities that Hollywood ordinarily churns out.
Its routine stuff (the usual small town secret) and the premise holds a nasty side to it, but director Jim Winburn's incompetently lazy and laboured handling brings it down.
I don't mind Ice Cube, he is just limited and the angry black guy routine can only carry you so far.
The setup for the story wasn't too bad, but the rest of the film ranged from routine, to boring, to just plain stupid.
Martin is good but not great - he's kind of recycling his Czech wild and crazy guy routine with a slightly different accent.
It probably had been a quite ambitious project, with an indestructible killer in the Michael Myers - Freddy Krueger tradition, but the result is thoroughly routine.
The script descends into horror cliché ("Penny Dreadful" did the trapped-in-the-woods routine much better) and inarticulation.
The story itself is routine and unimaginative,Diamonds??..We've seen this story too many times before and done better at that.
Daffy's wild thrashing around is punctuated by his quiet run through of how the routine should go as he takes time out to establish just where he went wrong.
Pretty decent cast -- John Garfield, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle -- but the film is no more than routine.
During a routine blood test, he finds out he has a terminal disease and his insurance will only pay out to his estranged wife and son if he dies in the line of duty.
Only Adama's two sons, Zak and Apollo know of the empending doom from a routine recon patrol.
He was a quiet man features Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) who is a displeased man working in an office with orthodox 9-5 routine.
The dance routine was quite interesting, although I have seen Tim Curry dance better in films like Annie and RHPS.
The drunk waiter routine is likewise very filled with tedium after the 10th visit to this situation.
Filmed on location in the volcanic deserts and banana jungles of central Mexico, this film quickly escapes Western routine through its effective use of complex characterization and unusual scenery.
Petunia introduces herself in a routine not dissimilar to the nerve-wracked recital that shot Porky Pig to fame in 'I Haven't Got a Hat'.
The combination of these two elements doesn't really work that well, the caricature routines slowing down the action whenever it threatens to get going (culminating in a tedious, overlong dance routine from Carmen Miranda and Bugs).
Bugs also seems excessively brash and obnoxious in this cartoon, from his loud "Am I the first to arrive" routine at the beginning of the cartoon to his frenzied cat-calling at the end.
The acting in this is bad bad bad, Richard Dreyfuss who can be a great actor (look at MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS) is doing his routine comic role, similar to KRIPPENDORF'S TRIBE.
Her lack of talent was routine however.
When the plumber Max (Ivor Kants) unexpectedly arrives for a routine check and maintenance of the piping in the bathroom, Jill stays alone at home with the talkative weird stranger.
OK, Wayne Morris is obnoxious with his immature, boisterous, steamroll-over-everyone-with-no-regard-for-their-feelings, routine.
As in all movies of this sort, the villain's ability to destroy the heroes' lives is dependent on his almost supernatural ability to predict their behaviour, and his willingness to endure pain to achieve his goals; the film's execution is unsubtle and the every plot development is heavily signposted; but up to this point, it still holds up as a routine but serviceable thriller.
"Clockwatchers" is a very funny little film that sheds light on the frustrations of spending eight hours a day in an entirely unexceptional environment where every action has been reduced to routine.
That and a later routine with Ted in which the boys perform "The Elevator Dance" (in which Larry stands still while Moe hand pops his mouth and Shemp rubs sandpaper together) which has "no steps to it" are the funniest parts of the movie.
There are a couple of fun but ever-so brief skits with caricatures of W.C. Fields and Charlie Chaplin at the beginning of the short and when Frankenstein's monster enters the narrative he gets to perform a camera-eating and self-repairing routine which is the highlight of the cartoon.
CURTAIN UP is a routine British comedy which fails to raise anything more than the slightest titter.
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