If there are a handful of duds, or unexceptional bits, sequentially,
the movie feels stale.
Not exact matches
If you still can't lose the bad taste of the sequel, check out the original, in which the jokes
feel less
stale and Will Ferrell is still the best part of the
movie.
Adam Sandler still
feels like he's playing the same character he plays in all his other
movies so to say his performance is getting
stale would be an understatement.
Stale as week - old bread and every bit as bland, the
movie saddles a strong cast with a groaningly ineffectual script (courtesy of Michael LeSieur, who wrote 2006's You, Me and Dupree) and wastes the director's gift for bringing lived - in charm and
feeling to broad comic premises.
Everything about the
movie's progression
feels tired and
stale, right down to the inevitable sequences in which the Americans learn their backwards hosts aren't that bad after all.
Paul's quick review: The previous
movies were starting to
feel a little
stale as the same pattern seemed to be used in each one, even down to the ending with Bond floating away in a raft with the girl.
Despite the gleeful atmosphere, director Andy Tennant (Ever After) fails to provide C. Jay Cox's screenplay with quite enough edge and many scenes
feel stale and tiresome, and the
movie eventually takes the easy way out.
But Waititi also knows there's a unique groove to be found in the middle of all of this, and when the
movie syncs up everything from its auteur's facility for sight gags to the actors» impressive young - fuck - up - meets - old - fart chemistry, Wilderpeople generates enough good will to make the
stalest of plot devices
feel semi-fresh.
Yes, Pirates
movies always feature complicated plots with numerous characters, but the earlier installments
felt fresh and exciting, this go around just
feels uninteresting and
stale.
From his era - appropriate soundtrack (featuring Thomas Dolby, Greg Kihn and The Fixx) to the visual style of his opening credits and his slyly reverential camerawork, West gives his
movie the look and
feel of a 25 - year - old relic, yet nothing about Devil seems
stale.