Text - perceptive in its vision of nascent industrialized world politics as a new art form , but far too clunky , didactic and saddled with scenes that seem simply an ill fit for this movie .
Group - curtailment


Text - sweet home alabama " is what it is  a nice , harmless date film . . .
Group - forbit


Text - there's very little sense to what's going on here , but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash .
Group - forbit


Text - jackson and co have brought back the value and respect for the term epic cinema .
Group - forbit


Text - an uneven mix of dark satire and childhood awakening .
Group - curtailment


Text - holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out , in all its strange quirks .
Group - forbit


Text - cliches are as thick as the cigarette smoke .
Group - curtailment


Text - slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by .
Group - curtailment
Classify the following: ponderous , plodding soap opera disguised as a feature film .