Word: rhythmless
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Most of us readily acknowledge that we have a handicap for dancing, and those of us who don't admit it are usually the ones most guilty of starting just one more round of the Electric Slide. "Close Quarters" made all of us rhythmless people grateful (and perhaps a wee bit jealous?) that dancing can look so much like, well, dancing...
...HALF ITS LENGTH THE PICture shambles along, perfunctory, rhythmless, misdirected, wasting the time of the moviegoer who couldn't get into Lethal Weapon 3 next door. Then the ragged choir of St. Katherine's convent swings into a tambourine-rattling version of Smokey Robinson's My Guy -- "There's not a man today/ Who could take me away/ From my God" -- and Sister Act instantly enslaves its audience. A few more tunes, a chase, a conversion % (nowadays every movie needs one), and by its end, the picture exudes the odor of a summer...
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