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The acting is wooden.
The characters are unbelievably patriotic and wooden.
Worst of all, the acting is wooden.
With relentless emotional manipulation piled on top of wooden acting & a dreadful script.
This downer is truly one of the dreariest family films of all time, not helped by a colorless supporting cast which includes a wooden Janet Leigh in an early role.
This is not actually that bad a film, if you take away the stupid bits and ignore some of the wooden acting.
Jerry the mouse, with the help of a crab (in the crab's defense he hates Jerry as well as Tom), plot to of course turn Tom's good time into a day of pain, degradation and humiliation, often with hilarious results (the clam sandwich, the sand tea, the fake wooden lady, the spit-take, and of course the umbrella spring to mind) Viva Tom and Jerry!!
Not one song is memorable and the performances are wooden.
The film is padded out, has terrible, wooden acting, a ludicrous script,awful zombie makeup, and yet somehow it doesn't fall flat on its face... well, not entirely.
Jean Simmons is simpering and wet - oh, sorry, of course I mean cute and vulnerable, Uncle Silas and his son crude and her admirer wooden.
As for the performances, well it's expected that we get something wooden within the acting range.
The acting is so wooden, with casting choices apparently made on who had the best pecs, that one can only scoff at these smarmy returns.
The acting, for the most part, is wooden (with one BIG exception).
the portrayals were wooden and unlifelike.
First, the whole story line with the Marine Corps is very unrealistic (don't want to spoil anything here), there a lot of big explosions, but acting is just very wooden.
Also, it contained the most stilted dialogue and wooden acting to make it to the screen in quite some time.
In this film Ewan McGregor's acting is surprisingly wooden for such a talented actor, Hayden Christensen has less chemistry with Natalie Portman than a 12 year old student's test tube, the dialogue is boring, the lines are cheesy and clichéd, there does not seem to be any actual emphasis on plot, it just being an excuse to glue one over-long action set piece to another, so the intrigue disappears fast and the themes and contexts are given a back seat to (admittedly impressive) CGI.
At first his brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) doesn't believe him, but when Mike shows him a cut-off finger surrounded by 'yellow blood' in a little wooden box he had saved as proof, Jody starts to believe him.
Annie Potts' acting is wooden and devoid of any sense of realism.
Maryam D'Abo's Queen Rosalind is flat and wooden and King Harald is now bald and sports a beard.
Although it is a good film the acting is standard and decent while the dialoque is sort of wooden and flat it does feel real and almost accurate.
About Cheadle's character, you may have heard his performance is wooden, that is untrue, he delivers a moving portrait of a tortured soul subjected to a traumatic past and exposed to soul rending choices.
His dismal wooden acting is not the only thing to make you squirm in this film - wait till you have to endure the 'baddies'!
the acting is wooden and the jokes are very lame.
Brendan Fraser is an above average actor who is made to look like a star by the wooden "acting" of Elizabeth Hurley.
Her performance is wooden and 2 dimensional as she conveys NO emotion from her character.
To make matters worse the acting's more wooden then Buford Pusser's fabled 2 by 4. A sequel was shot back-to-back with this one and I can say with all confidence that i'll definitely be skipping that likely travesty.
Richard Burton was always a wooden film actor and an overacting ham who just recited the lines in that horrid chain smoker's gravel voice of his.
A naked room, a dead old woman lies on a wooden coffin, across the coffin we see her son.
Lamas is wooden.
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