Though undeniably talented, Martin exhibits a hesitant sense of what separates the singingly oral from the stodgily ordinary. |
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For the most part, however, it's content to coast by on the romantic-adventure premise stodgily laid out in an uninspired screenplay. |
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You get your hero's origin sequence, decent overview of his costume and civilian life, stodgily staged romance, plus two of the comic series' better baddies. |
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Even Shah began stodgily, taking 34 deliveries to get off the mark, and doing so courtesy of a misfield. |
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Of course, the DEFA seal-of-approval is evident in Wolfgang Kohlhaase's screenplay, which exudes, stodgily, the requisite socialist values. |
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Wales started stodgily against an Irish pack well led by No 8 Brian Cawley and trailed 9-3 after fly-half Andrew Burke had outscored Halfpenny three penalties to one. |
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So, there's the makings of a pretty decent comedy here but, after a promising opening, the film just stutters stodgily and even teeters towards being boring. |
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Kicked poorly and passed stodgily, but improved in the second half. |
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