Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. This tiny slice of the south works as a summer diversion that works out what used to be worked out by reading a good paperback.
2. Though structurally messy and visually shapeless, The Help deserves to be seen for its novel subject and thematic concerns, and pleasure of watching good acting.
3. With its focus group-tested quotient of laughs and tears targeted to lowest-common-denominator audiences, writer-director Tate Taylor's vulgar The Help is as much a piece of assembly-line hackwork as any Transformers sequel.
4. If only The Help accepted more of Davis’ help, we might have a work of art on our hands instead of another condescending, half-baked history lesson.
5. What was once a perfect summer book has now become the perfect summer movie.
6. A superbly adapted story with extraordinary performances from an ensemble cast. It is as inspirational as it is powerful. And it is laced with rich humor throughout.
7. The Help polishes the civil rights era like its heroic maids shine the silverware... It's a movie of terrific performances and rousing comeuppances, with a side order of cornpone for the soul.
8. Provocative and powerful, it's a multi-racial, multi-generational 'must see.'
9. The Help demonstrates the conned intelligence of the "post-racial" and "postblack" Obama era, where the anxieties of unequal yet mutually beneficial black-white relationships are conveniently, speciously, put behind us.
10. [The Help] is, in some ways, crude and obvious, but it opens up a broad new swath of experience on the screen, and parts of it are so moving and well acted that any objections to what's second-rate seem to matter less as the movie goes on.

Summary:
Though arguably guilty of glossing over its racial themes, The Help rises on the strength of its cast -- particularly Viola Davis, whose performance is powerful enough to carry the film on its own.