Movie reviews of The Massie Twins

As a result of the plainness of the plot and the dullness of the dialogue, Ray’s plight doesn’t hold much water. Review

While the dialogue doesn’t always complement the humor or the drama, the strong female leads do. Pathos and levity are pulled with ease from both subtle moments and outrageously awkward ones, offering a dash of real magic alongside the illusory kind. Review

None of the leads perform poorly, but sometimes simpler satire just produces superior results. Review

The filmmakers have done an excellent job of recreating a forgotten type of comedy that, perhaps, few audiences will embrace. Review

This well-acted, no-nonsense drama strikes an admirable tone, even if its overt messaging is a fantasy, an idealistic take on capitalism that is less and less true every year and completely at-odds with Washburn’s agenda to aid the everyman. Review

It’s rather repetitious and drawn-out here, failing to invent fresh routines or expand upon the Police Squad universe – even though it has the shortest runtime of the trio. Review

Although there wasn’t much of a reason to do a sequel, it’s easy enough to be entertained by carrying on with the misadventures of the invariably inept yet accidentally successful policeman. Review

In the end, this preternatural quartet is monumentally uninteresting, given ineffectual powers to deal with a randomly invented, unsolvable predicament – which is then quickly and neatly resolved almost as rapidly as it was sized up, overcome while remaining devoid of moments of awe or suspenseful battles. Review

A few surprises do turn up, and some of the humor does work, but they’re not frequent enough or amusing enough to truly warrant this combination remake/sequel. Review

It may exist solely as a parable for survival of the fittest during one of America’s most taxing stretches, with each character representing a different faction of society, resulting in an actioner with limited reach, but it’s nevertheless incredibly singular. Review

Cast Away musters some astonishing sequences of beauty and wonderment; the emotional impact of Noland’s acute solitude is remarkable, especially as he struggles to hang on to the tenuous threads of his own sanity. Review

It’s thoroughly underwhelming in all regards, even if it’s intermittently so bad that it’s funny, which allows for a handful of seconds of genuine entertainment value. Review

A couple shots of gore and a decent flaming corpse sequence aren’t enough to even remotely counter the constant silliness, the gross insincerity, the crawling pacing, the weak fights, and the unvarying uneventfulness. Review

Despite the visuals, which are the obvious appeal for this horror-comedy hybrid, the story just isn’t orchestrated in a sensible enough manner; the plot progression is too slow and disjointed to do justice to the over-the-top, slimy yucks. Review

The combination of cheeky characters, quirky camerawork, upbeat music, snazzy editing, and loads of humor helps to make this project consistently entertaining. Review

The setup may be of higher intellect, but the execution is primarily engaged with marketability; without pulse-pounding thrills, the filmmakers are afraid there won’t be audiences. Review

There are no gut-busting scenes in Heaven Can Wait; the jokes are as tepid as the romance, resulting in a tremendously mediocre picture. Review

Fans will surely find entertainment in the imagery and the introduction of new characters, even if the use of subtle adult jokes are unfitting and Fox’s excessively sexualized, done-up appearance never feels entirely appropriate. Review

In the end, there are a few welcome changes to the ordinary Godzilla routines, once again concerning personas with greater development, emotional complications, and moral quandaries, but it still dwells on stock tropes and extremely predictable revelations. Review

Though the runtime is slightly overlong and the narrative is overly cinematic, the intensity and the emotional moments are entirely winning. Review

The picture lampoons mythological feats and entities, it’s so ridiculous and random and narratively incoherent that’s it’s routinely watchable. Review

It’s all fine in the moment, but there was no real reason to try again – at least not with this screenplay. Review

This swift, simple musical, particularly with its bland script, wasn’t enough of a vehicle to really propel Monroe toward stardom, but it’s still a curious historical chapter in the icon’s career, especially considering that her following jobs... Review

It may be a return to big-screen dino mayhem, but it’s so unoriginal and unexciting that it’s genuinely mind-boggling that this is the best the creative team could do with a reboot scenario and a blockbuster budget. Review