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The seriousness of the film is slaughtered with sub standard comic scenes and songs.
Otherwise, what you have here is your standard monster movie, playing like a low-budget, shipboard version of THE RELIC.
But those rubber bats just reduce it to standard fare.
It is a standard ex-cop flick.
When I bought 4 DVDs for £5.oo in a local shop it should have been warning enough that this movie was not up to the usual standard of David Selznick Productions.
The acting and the not-so special effects were nowhere near the standard of even the lowest budget B-movies.
What we have here is a slightly below standard western that's too surreal to be that enjoyable.
Standard "Disease outbreak in remote area; expert who happens to be vacationing in the area takes charge" movie.
Aside from that, however, this was pretty standard stuff.
Walker is very melodramatic and actually set a standard of the genre of "High Octane" cop shows such as CSI, CSI: Miami, and so forth.
The standard of action is frankly, no better than a Gene Autry or Roy Rogers TV episode with Colt .45's
I love Stanwyck, but she snarls and contorts and lashes out wildly -- an undisciplined performance several notches below her standard.
They even act and talk differently, with the standard degrading usage of extremely poor grammar associated with the stereotypical image of blacks portrayed in many cartoons of the era.
The monster is standard 50's sci-fi fair, better than say the grasshoppers in the Beginning of the End.
The dialogue, soundtrack and shooting style are standard for biker movies.
The music is ugly, and the perhaps innovative ski-ing sequences are now standard in televisual coverage of the sport.
It's basically a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), but done with your standard snake-like puppet-monster instead of a sleek Ray Harryhausen creation.
Overall, I felt completely detached from the characters and the plot to the point where I couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to them, and the only way I can see how this animation could be considered beautiful is if your normal standard of animation is a Scooby-Doo cartoon.
Oh... Henny plays a surly night club owner whose girls are falling prey to Lewis's standard butchery.
The chase scenes are standard fare.
The source material is standard fare (sexual awakening during a beach vacation) but it could have been a decent film nevertheless if any of the characters were sufficiently interesting.
What we have here the standard Disney direct to DVD sequel, where I would expect cots are cut in all areas resulting in an okay animated movie that falls well short of the original.
But jumping thru doors isn't standard training... Nor do typical female agents, who bust their butts to make it in a male oriented field, act like weak characters... Boring!
The story line follows a standard WWE (then WWF) circa 88-91 story line culminating in the standard good guy beat down, hulk up and then get beaten down again story line only to follow that the good guy calls on all his inner strength( gained from eating vitamins, saying prayers etc etc ) to mount the epic come back..... Pretty standard formula here.
Oscar-nominated scenarist Scott B. Smith of "A Simple Plan," adapting his own bestselling novel, sticks steadfastly to the standard clichés and conventions of all twentysomething scary sagas where reckless youth do everything but tote signs begging the forces of evil to eat them.
The acting is your typical, unsubtle, idiotic, standard sitcom flailing-limbs type acting.
In addition, the majority of screen time is a far below standard story of thieves, criminals and our hero(es) dealing with some alien time travel artifacts.
What they really mean is that the movie is set in this time period but is fiction and everything that happens is just a jumble of standard scenes from other war films.
Some of the scenes appear to be straight out of the handbook on standard scenes to include in any war film.
There are only 2 or 3 fight scenes all of which are up to normal standard more or less.
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