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A few funny moments stretched paper thin.
This seems like a bad episode that was stretched into full-length time.
I would rather be stretched on the rack than sit through this atrocity again.
The action is nearly non existant, the sci fi was thin and stretched but the zombies were just ok.
Great is Schoolhouse Rock stretched out to a half hour and with not even one percent of the talent.
I don't know if it's just that the parody genre is being stretched so thin that there isn't anything left anymore, or if this movie was just bad writing.
Scott turns out to be surprisingly stretched with a touch of seldom-seen whimsy.
Cute for a commercial but stretched into a movie not so cute.
This so called "movie" took a story that should have taken 3 minutes to tell, and stretched it out into 1hr and a half off scenes that were way too long.
The long stretched out scenes are about exciting as watching paint dry.
It stretched the story to have HIM kill the teacher character in the end.
So many TZ episodes seem stretched too far beyond the twist just fill the time.
Just imagine if this movie was a little stretched out.
But plausibility is stretched to the limit by asking the audience to believe that such a foolish, emotionally labile man as Victor Frankenstein could actually have the ability to create life from death ... and then do it AGAIN?
Sometimes Robert DeNiro has stretched himself too thin and hasn't come off well in comedies such as WE'RE NO ANGELS and MAD DOG GLORY, but here his timing is virtually flawless, and his comic rapport with Billy Crystal (also excellent, as he avoids making his hapless but still dignified shrink a buffoon) is wonderful.
In an effort to bring all the problems facing Egypt to light, the filmmaker has stretched himself too thin.
The movie only had about 30 minutes of plot, and it was stretched paper thin.
Credibility got stretched for my taste but the music saved it for me.
I have always been a great lover of history and the Historical fictions that Robert Graves weaved in his Claudius novels is not only some of the best novels I have ever read, it is some of the best history of have ever read, even if large portions of it are at least partially fabricated or stretched history.
If stretched, however, they would be boring.
A blow-hard named Troy Duffy, who fancied himself to be much more clever than he actually is and whose knowledge of cinema stretched back only roughly ten years, decided to try his hand at a Tarantino-like action flick, except on a smaller scale.
The directing is lazy, the plot at first glance seems interesting enough but Scorsese does his best to bring it down and ends up with a stretched, repetitive, sequence of encounters with various deadbeats, and lowlife losers, which we are apparently supposed to show some interest in.
The film just doesn't stop attempting to prepare us for tension and excitement and building up these encounters and situations before resulting in a huge anti-climax and more stretched out, aimless roads to nowhere.
The movie has been stretched around Amitabh and lacks character development of other actors in the movie.
"Films" like Date Movie are the lowest of the low; the lowest form of sludge churned out, stretched out and then given cinematic releases for whatever reason.
Some interrogation sequences are stretched too long and we witness the uncomfortable cast languishing with rather dire material.
The jokes are, for the most part, far stretched, based on "anti-American" cliches and lacking in subtlety that would make them more useful for the overall plot.
It may SOUND like a good idea - Altman sure thinks it does, he uses it to make most of his movies - but this is no excuse for offering us a muddled, terribly acted half-baked film that essentially has about three scenes that are stretched out.
It started interestingly though, but Edwards used all his material with Sellers too soon and stretched the movie endlessly.
Because the producers and/or writers chose real-life settings for this reunion show AND stretched it to two hours, the look and feel of the show was completely alien to the original series.
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