question: Despite fine work by an appealing cast, It's Complicated is predictable romantic comedy fare, going for broad laughs instead of subtlety and nuance.

numbered reviews: 1. The film is lightweight, likable, rather overlong and a piece of wish-fulfilment.
2. It's really not all that complicated. But it is entertaining. It's pure, simple fun, with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin playing Doris Day and Rock Hudson as they might have been if they had ruled in the sexually knowing oughts, instead of the virginal ear
3. Streep, Baldwin, and Martin are having so much fun in this romantic comedy-drama that it's impossible not to get swept up in the good time they're having as well.
4. Streep and Baldwin sell it.
5. If a Pottery Barn catalog had a midlife crisis, it would look and feel something like It's Complicated.
6. Ao menos é consistente em sua mediocridade, errando até o último instante.
7. Streep finally gets her chance to cut loose -- and her frisky, flirty Jane is a comic revelation.
8. Meyers doesn't have to do much besides put these silly dynamos next to one another and let them enjoy riffing.
9. Rollicking and ribald, 'It's Complicated' is a comedy about passions and people 'of a certain age.'
10. Soft, warm, doughy comfort food it was no doubt intended to be. The screenplay is jovial; the actors twinkle and Mamma Mia! fans should love it.


question: When the novelty of the CGI Garfield wears off, what's left is a simplistic kiddie movie.

numbered reviews: 1. ... a film without energy and without spirit.
2. Stinkier than a litter box in a multi-cat household.
3. The worst thing about a movie like Garfield is that it's not Cat in the Hat bad, but is just the sort of indifferent creation that qualifies as 'cute.'
4. I recommend it as a family film that kids will enjoy and adults will find unexpectedly pleasant.
5. I know, I know, I'm really on the warpath about CGI creations lately.
6. All co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt is asked to do as a veterinarian is to stroll around in short skirts, though she does it very well.
7. No one can accuse Garfield: The Movie of infidelity to its source: It faithfully conveys the banality of Jim Davis's cartoon.
8. In the comics, Garfield is one fat and lazy cat. Unfortunately, so is his cat-astrophic live-action screen debut.
9. Not even worth a rental.
10. Garfield stinks like a dead cat.


question: The slapstick antics of this sequel provide a few laughs, but fail to equal those of the original.

numbered reviews: 1. In the limbo of comedy, few can go lower than Zucker without visibly straining.
2. Nielsen's secret is that he does almost nothing, and certainly nothing he seems to think is funny.
3. Somehow this sequel never reaches the heights of inspired lunacy that made the original so memorable, and there are no extended set-pieces that work as well as the first film's opening battle with America's enemies or the climactic baseball game.
4. The opening and closing credits alone are almost worth the price of admission.
5. Something of a disappointment.
6. Smells bad.
7. A lesser laugh trip than the original, yet still one worth checking out.
8. This sequel might feel like a simple reworking of the first film if Leslie Nielsen weren't so consistently appealing in his role as Frank Drebin.
9. One of the funniest movies starring a multiple murderer.
10. Provides sporadic laughs, but not as consistently funny as the first one.


question: Jurassic Park III is darker and faster than its predecessors, but that doesn't quite compensate for the franchise's continuing creative decline.

numbered reviews:
1. The Jurassic movies have by now palpably entered the plane of baldly profit-hunting, unpretentious entertainment...
2. Gone are the emotional elements that made Jurassic Park the thrill-ride it was.
3. Does offer a few genuinely horrific images.
4. It is not art, but it is fun.
5. Requires little brain-power to contemplate its almost non-existent plot; instead, it tries to sustain audiences with one dinosaur chase after another.
6. A straight-ahead matinee actioner, all bark and bite but little soul.
7. Much like an ice cream cone, this one is fairly fun while it lasts and entirely forgettable after the fact.
8. Whereas the success of sequels is generally dependent upon how many of the original stars and key filmmaking personnel such as writer and director, this excellent monster movie would stand on its own.
9. Never overdoes itself, and its story never distracts from the action.
10. If there's one thing certain in this new instalment of Jurassic Park, it's that the critters are a whole lot smarter, faster and interesting than the Homo sapiens dropping in on them.