Public Notice: Lame Ducking

Getting things done before 10-1 arrives

"...indeed choose to move ahead on these initiatives, this lame-duck Council could start all of these balls rolling before..."

Nov. 7, 2014 News Column by Nick Barbaro

LAME LEWD AND DEPRESSED

A new art exhibition takes over the space at Congress & Eighth

"...No wonder they note that, at tonight's reception, armed..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Lame Attempt at Satire

"...damaging gardens – the writer gets lost in a lame attempt at satire and sarcasm. Quite apart from the..."

March 12, 2012 Postmarks

Nader Attacks Are Just Lame Scare Tactics

"...that around is to employ the same type of lame scare tactics that Cheney uses. Kerry has admitted he..."

Oct. 25, 2004 Postmarks

Gay Place: Pride: Lamé, Not Lame

Celebrate the new Ana Sisnett Library at UT!

Sept. 16, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

I Promise We Aren't Lame

Nov. 1, 2007 Promotions Post

The Lame, the Halt, and the Parking Thieves

Crusading against handicapped-parking violators

June 9, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

In Case You Missed It: More Tired Lame Clinton Bashing

June 21, 2004 Postmarks

Swanson's Arguments So Lame He Resorts to Name-Calling, Which He's Not Even Good At

Nov. 4, 2003 Postmarks

Josie and the Pussycats

It's far more subversive than the Seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoon on which it's based.

"...of conformity and why shopping at the Gap is lame, lame, lame. This is, of course, a borderline revolutionary..."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Walking With Dinosaurs

This visually ambitious animated film looks promising until its corny plot gets going.

"...an inexplicably thick Hispanic accent combining story narration with lame jokes and tossed-off observations. One critic, not all that..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Zoolander 2

Are Derek and Hansel still in fashion?

"...receive credit for a script that features jokes so lame they need crutches, a storyline so incomprehensible it needs..."

Feb. 19, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Expendables 2

This who's who of action stars even features Schwarzenegger in his movie comeback.

"...barely hangs together amid outbursts of muzzle flare and lame, jokey banter between Schwarzenegger and Willis. (Chuck Norris, in..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Campaign

A wan political comedy guaranteed to offend no one.

"...o' doom – than in the entirety of this lame Campaign...."

Aug. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Klown

Penis-obsessed, man-child film comedies can crown a new king: the Danish import Klown.

"...Klown. This movie about a guys’ weekend, during which lame-brained ideas multiply exponentially, is more ribald and politically incorrect..."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vampires Suck

From the filmmaking team that gave us Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans comes this inevitable spoof of teen vampire movies.

"...collection of repetitive sight gags, god-awful puns, and soul-crushingly lame kinda/sorta impersonations of everyone from the Black Eyed Peas..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sex and the City 2

Two years after the end of the last film, Carrie Bradshaw now frets that the "sparkle" has gone out of her marriage. It's gone from this movie, too.

"...nearly 2½-hour movie feature. Writer/director King piles on the lame puns and product mentions to the detriment of character..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

This collegiate coming-of-age comedy is about as exciting as near-beer.

"...can't be a total jerkwad forever, apparently) is as lame as a near-beer drinking binge. To its credit, I..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

The director of Doom takes on another video-game franchise, this time one about a female martial artist seeking justice.

"...with such godawful dialogue (and worse line readings), a lame vendetta plot that was ancient prior to the Khmer..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ultimate Gift

In this inspirational film, a deceased tycoon's will decrees that his grandson perform a series of tasks to determine if the young man is worthy of inheriting the fortune.

"...is “Christian,” does that mean it has to be lame? According to Fox Faith, the answer is yes. With..."

March 16, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Happily N'Ever After

The animated Happily N'Ever After isn't just cynically humorless, it's shoddy-looking to boot.

"...no one, as evidenced by Happily N'Ever After, a lame, gratingly unfunny attempt at "Fractured"-type humor that's merely annoying...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paheli

The Hindi megastar Shahrukh Khan and the arthouse director Amol Palekar combine forces for this new Bollywood fable.

"...Paheli lags from lack of plot or when another lame joke – like Borscht Belt repurposed for Bollywood –..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Meet the Fockers

You can Fockerize Meet the Parents all you want, but this new movie is a lame sequel to the comic hit of 2000.

"...but this new movie is nothing more than a lame sequel to the comic hit of 2000. Added to..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hunting of the President

This Friend-of-Bill doc recounts the hard-right campaign to cut short the Clinton presidency.

"...turns it’s portentous with trumped-up melodrama or overreaches for lame comedy. But it also adds color and nuance to..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Michael King

Kissing Jessica Stein

"...makes it past first base. Frustrated with all the lame-duck blind dates with men she's been having, flibberty-gibbet Manhattan..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lucky Numbers

"...like the alien queen you know she is. Painfully lame and hamstrung by a viciously unfunny sense of humor,..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Whole Nine Yards

"...one subgenre of humor that's even more distasteful than lame hit-man comedy -- and that's dental comedy...."

Feb. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wrongfully Accused

"...film compiled out of the worst short ends and lame gags from, one presumes, better, more humorous films. Regardless,..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pest

"...ethnic and cultural impressions are, almost without exception, massively lame. People who’ve done this kind of humor well over..."

Feb. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Michael

Travolta plays an unkempt, beer-swilling, Beatles-quoting angel who – yes – also dances.

"...Dexter, and Jim Quinlan) suffers from thin plotting and lame set-ups. Audiences are likely to react badly to the..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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