Sentences with phrase «characters feel worthwhile»

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The first two films are a tough act to follow, and here, the laughs are spread out too far, the story feels forced upon its characters, and the whole gimmick of twisting the conventions of fairy tales is starting to show a lack of new, worthwhile ideas.

Critics Consensus: I Feel Pretty has a charming star and the outline of a worthwhile comedy — but unlike its suddenly confident central character, it suffers from a fundamental lack of conviction.

While there are moments of humour, the film doesn't take the characters forward from where we left them in Shrek 2, feeling more like the next instalment of an episodic TV series than a genuinely worthwhile sequel.

Critic Consensus: I Feel Pretty has a charming star and the outline of a worthwhile comedy — but unlike its suddenly confident central character, it suffers from a fundamental lack of conviction.

L3 felt like the biggest character misstep as she came off more like a personality that tested well than a worthwhile addition to the series.

While the characters are hardly worth spending time with, I felt that if the director slowed things down and spent time trying to make us actually scared of this masked killer, the movie might have felt more worthwhile nearer the end.

The movie introduces its characters with drawn - out, patience testing scenes, but these slower beats help make the characters we are going to be spending time with feel much more prominent and worthwhile to spend time with.

Olsen continues to show the sort of spark that is wasted in films like Oldboy (here's hoping Joss Whedon can do something worthwhile with her in Avengers 2), but she's a plot device instead of a character, existing to make Jesse feel conflicted about falling for a teenager so he can grow up and embrace his life away from the college he believes defines him.

What Eddie the Eagle does share with Cool Runnings and so many other compelling underdog stories, though, is a compelling evolution for its main characters — both the athletes and their mentors — that makes both their journeys and the one the audience takes with them feel worthwhile.