Word: charm
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...fails to replicate the genius and hilarity of There’s Something About Mary. It has numerous crashes, punches and explosions, but they aren’t as funny as one scene involving Chris Farley. It tries to make the audience love a bumbling loser, but lacks the charm of Tommy Boy. The film blatantly steals a whole scene from Silence of the Lambs—a travesty to the latter—and its constant barrage of overused redneck and gay jokes hardly exudes any originality. Besides Walken’s performance, the only other saving grace...
...Small Time Crooks, Grant is caddishly handsome as Bridget’s Cleaver, who is given sounder treatment in the movie than in the novel. Whether slyly flirting over office e-mail or whispering dirty names to his conquest, Grant displays his inner rogue with a sort of sleazy charm that seems to suit him much more than his previous “oopsy-daisy” roles as an inarticulate romantic with foppish hair...
...consultant to HIT Entertainment who oversaw the development of Bob the Builder and is now working on a TV series based on Angelina Ballerina, a dancing mouse. "You have to make the best show you can and then see what happens. If it's funny and it's got charm then you have a chance, but even then it's not a slam dunk...
...love—would lose much of its force if we forgot, even for a minute, that what we are watching is markedly not the world in which we live. Fortunately, the Met’s production didn’t allow this to happen. All the juvenile charm served to crystallize the distinction between our reality and a magic land of ideals that comes spookily close to heaven on earth...
...these holes in the plot are things to think about the day after the performance. During our three hours in Sarastro’s magic kingdom, they do not occur to us. The charm of the characters, the glory of the music and the loftiness of the ideal they extol simply overwhelm even the most cynical listeners. This is especially so at the Met, where even an average night means a breathtaking performance. When the great gold curtain falls over the Lincoln Center stage, the audience leaves knowing they witnessed a masterpiece. And—for one night, at least?...