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Adam doesn't like how one passenger is getting all the babes, and he tries to take over with the cheezy jokes.
Some fraud girl tries to compete in the big leagues of motorcross by swiching places with her brother.
A woman frames a cop boyfriend for her own murder, and his buddy, an ex-cop journalist, tries to clear his name by checking up on the dead woman's crazy female friends.
The plot follows as Deathstalker (Hill) tries to get something back from the evil lord, and he has to travel to the lord's cave.
This movie makes absolutely no sense at all... the plot is a joke and although Boll clearly tries to get attention by shocking people 90% of this movie is just plain boredom.
In fact the more charming Nisha tries to be the more irritating she becomes.
This vampire tries to seduce his prey by imitating a lost puppy.
In this case, he's given a lame, pointless script and he tries to remedy each scene with his incessant mugging.
Cut tries to be like most post-Scream slashers tried to be, a spoof of the horror genre that tried to be clever by referencing other famous horror movies.
That makes it sound pretty awful, and it is... Yet Franco does have some kind of inimitable sensibility, a generous way with the baldly outrageous, with nudity and sleaze and violence, and even with his stupid cheap editing which tries to pave over the extreme haste with which all his films were made.
Whilst mummy and daddy (bland Alexander Knox) entertain their guests at a dinner party, the youngster tries to kill himself, setting in motion a life changing series of events that find Bergman spending time showering compassion on the poor and needy.
Nonetheless, Ugly Joe tries it out and hey presto!
This sequel tries to build upon the idea and the characters from the first movie, and though Christopher Walken is still good as Gabriel, the whole idea suddenly gets a bit ridiculous.
With a main character who threatens witnesses, car bombs doctors, causes a hundred people to lose their jobs, tries to buy off the sexually abused daughter of one of his gang to keep out of jail and nails one of his own to a snooker table yet still remains a popular local legend an attractive enough personality for his wife to not only approve but actually suggest a ménage a trios with her sister, it needs a charismatic central performance to sell the character and the film.
The movie tries to be funny, and tries to make a story about abductions and more but it never works.
Dane tries to hard and is to extreme with all of his yelling and going crazy, spilling water on himself and rolling on the floor.
"Christmas Evil" tries to get psychological by introducing the main character as someone who goes insane,(a strong word), slowly (very slowly).
This movie tries to hard to be something that it's not....a good movie.
tries to be funny and fails miserably.
It took 3 tries before I was able to watch the entire movie.
OK, then... Woman sees ghost of daughter, other ghosts of people died in accidents or suicides appear, man tries to solve secret of houses past, woman gets depressed, strange neighbors appear.
The role of Mrs Wellington and her lover suffers in this remake and the idea to turn an aged white multi-millionaire into a stand up black comedian who tries to woo Sontee simply does not work.
There is some interest in the opening moments, watching Jamie Foxx's Svengali-like manager manipulate his acts to the top, but that takes a back seat in the latter portion of the film, when the story conveniently tries to cast him as a villain, despite his having been right from a business stand-point for a good majority of the film.
Even though the film tries to soften some of Effie's harder edges to make her more likable, the charges still stand.
The director tries to teach us a good lesson: tattoo artists with shaved heads are not always bad guys, in fact they can be better than the average looking dad (wow, this is like... philosophy, or something).
The harder the film tries, the louder each attempt at a laugh results in a resounding thud.
Soon enough, she does and tries to make the best coat of fashion world, of course for herself and from fine Dalmatian fur.
The premise of the story is simple: An old man living alone in the woods accidentally stumble upon a murder of a small child, and tries to convince the police that the murder has occurred.
She tries to escape her own subconscious ghosts, embodied by the death spectre of a young girl.
Throughout this third series to the wonderfully written sitcom Blackadder tries everything he can to get rich and powerful.
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