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...beachy Caribbean setting in which half-naked women splash around in crystal-clear water. Everyone’s having a good time, right? Immediately the scene cuts to a beachside menage-a-trois. Talk about throwing a bone to the audience. The movie eventually collapses into a sloppy mess. The dialogue is inane and stale, and the attempts at witty punch lines and dry humor consistently fall flat. The generic suspense movie soundtrack also gets boring fast. Few of the characters in this story have any on-screen chemistry at all. The pace of the film is quick but jerky...
...everyone in the region has chosen a side: Caught in the middle are the likes of Brazil's center-left President Lula da Silva, trying in vain to bridge the chasm. Right now, that appears to be an intractable diplomatic challenge - not the sort of mess you'd ever expect to be solved by the Organization of American States, long derided as one of the hemisphere's more hopelessly ineffectual institutions...
...nature." But environmental hubris is visible in such things as China's dirty skies and the 1,000 sq. mi. (2,590 sq km) of territory it loses to desertification every year. Whether or not Beijing can ensure a sunny Olympics, the state of the nation demonstrates that you mess with nature at your peril...
...Sometimes dreams turn into nightmares.” “Semi-Pro” exemplifies this scenario. It could have been good—it could have even been acceptable—but somehow this “Dodgeball”-meets-the-Bee-Gees mess incorporates the worst elements of both...
...thousand forgotten figures in politicalgraveyard.com. The question of experience takes on added bite this year, though, because the next President will inherit a troubled and menacing satchel of problems. From the Iraq tightrope to the stumbling economy, from the China challenge to the health-care mess, from loose nukes to oil dependence to (some things never change) Cuba policy - the next President will be tossed a couple dozen flaming torches at the end of the inaugural parade, and it would be helpful to know that this person has juggled before...