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The Spiderwick Chronicles
Based on the series of five serial children's novels, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a hollow spectacle that's good for the action and effects but light on everything else.
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10,000 BC
I can't help but think that 10,000 BC started out as an idea that sounded like, "Wouldn't it be cool if we had wooly mammoths and saber toothed tigers and people all in the same movie?" and went from there.
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Rails and Ties
Feels so forced and determined to convey a certain emotion that its authenticity is lost. And when there's no sense of authenticity, there's no emotional attachment.
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The Muppet Show: Season Three
The third season of The Muppet Show demonstrates the creative genius that went into it. It maintains a very high standard of comedy and imagination but it also shows signs of developing. It keeps the show's spirit and also shows viewers that there's more waiting beyond the lights and curtains they're used to.
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
National Treasure: Book of Secrets is like doing a puzzle a second time. It's familiar, it's redundant and it's rarely exciting.
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Drawn Together: Season Three - Uncensored
Drawn Together is sort of a nostalgia trip for the Captain Crunch generation. It plays with classic cartoon characters and gives it a definite adult feel. But just because you're rude, crude and reference The A-Team on multiple occasions it doesn't mean you're classic yourself.
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Strange Wilderness
A few cute gags aside, this is an exercise in stupidity aimed at those who find 15 different names for a bong to be funny.
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P.S. I Love You
Richard LaGravense's P.S. I Love You has plenty of sappy love-letter moments, but it's also a very touching and real-feeling look at the grieving process.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones - Volume Three: The Years of Change
Of the three Young Indiana Jones DVD sets, this is the first one that begins to capture the same sense of adventure found in the films.
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Cloverfield
Employing the same sort of smarts
and gadgety resourcefulness that made its viral campaign so
delicious and intriguing, Cloverfield brings chaos
and terror in one of the most memorable American monster films
in some time.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Another bizarre and beautiful excursion courtesy of one of Hollywood's most creative minds.
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