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There are some talented people working here (John Woo, John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis) and they're all decent, but they are merely working in service of a standard story, and don't do anything to elevate it above standard.
The music was well placed but was fairly standard.
Harry and Lloyd are not your standard comedy duo.
Some of the comedy to this is pretty standard but there are some touches that put this above most action/comedies.
This surprisingly primitive 'streamliner' comedy from the Roach Studios -- with the collapse of the comedy short subject market in the mid-thirties, Hal Roach decided to go into feature production, first with films like the TOPPER series and later with second features that timed in at less than an hour -- contains all the standard cheap comedy motifs, including a Murphy Bed -- and runs through them in a rather mechanical fashion as made-it-from-scratch taxi fleet owners William Bendix and Joe Sawyer get tangled up with a girl who tries to kill herself and declares herself their responsibility.
If you read my review of "Married with Children: The E! True Hollywood Story" you already know that I hold that to a higher standard than this and for good reason.
I'm not biased or anything (being gay myself) but gay themed movies always seem to be better than most of the standard Hollywood fare that's churned out year after year.
It was original, it had funny moments, it had those seemingly standard car jumps and wrecks for a car movie.
The underlying theme is pretty standard tree-hugger stuff; evil, rapacious white men destroying the Garden of Eden and dispossessing the innocent, noble savages along the way.
First of all, what rescues this from being standard direct to video fare is the direction of action film helmer Mark L. Lester.
Standard, typical tear-jerker - highly-renowned concerto artist deserts family to take off with his child's piano teacher.
The Mandarin Mystery is what happens when you take a fairly standard locked room mystery, add a little too much romance, and season the mix with an ample supply of humor.
This very standard early 80's haunted house/possessed souls chiller does feature one ingenious and genuinely creepy gimmick, namely the titular vehicle that mysteriously drives around at night.
way to set a double standard.
The narrative proceeds to give a standard history of this type is formed, beginning with him getting into petty crime as a kid, and then following him as he proceeds up the ranks of the underworld.
The acting on the part of Hugh Dancy is acceptable, as for Cook it is not up to the standard of her other performances.
Just so that no one is surprised the murders are very grisly even by todays standard, but the scenery is breathtaking and the sets and costumes transported me to Egypt and I loved every minute of it.
Stillman's first in his trilogy, this sets the standard for the offbeat banter and dialogue of the two films that followed, "Barcelona," and "The Last Days of Disco."
Carey has a thankless part which he plays in a workmanlike way while Ansara tries to inject some flavor into his standard issue part.
Perhaps Bill Gunn should have made the standard blaxploitation vampire movie he was hired to make.
I would consider myself fairly well-versed in "Girls in Prison" films, and this one set a new standard.
I remember reading a write up on this film, the standard fare put out by the promotions people.
It is just a tepid variation on the standard romantic mystery/comedy.
It is truly standard issue.
Geesh, I wonder what their standard is?
Although I first saw this film when I was probably six years old, it has stuck with me as an inspiration, and set a standard that very few movies live up to.
Surprisingly, given the standard of actors in it, the acting was awful, and the direction dire.
He manages to pull this up to a much higher standard, very watchable stuff, in fact.
Including the ability to produce music without knowledge of the standard conventions typically used.
This just didn't seem very funny at all and even though it's been a number of years since I've seen it, it still reminds the standard against which I measure how bad a movie is.
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