Title: Enjoyable Movie For Teens & Adults Review: This is definitely teen fare, but it's very entertaining which means adults would get a lot of laughs out of it.There were a number of sight gags, things that made me laugh out loud, such as dollar signs instead of spots on the dog, the dress-ware of the little rich kid (Macauley Culkin), the eccentric characters - good and bad guys - are all fun to watch. I thought Jonathan Hyde, as the butler, stole the show.As with any comedy, some of the stuff is really stupid and some of it is really funny. Along the way, you get a few swear words that you wouldn't want your little ones to hear, but overall, I have little to criticize with this one. Is the review positive or negative?
Positive

Title: Schwinn book...very basic info. Review: Ok book...lotsa color pics....needs more Sting Ray pics and information. Has some factual errors in it but if you get this book cheap it's worthwhile. There are better books out there though. I use tghis book only as a backup for my other Schwinn books...to get different views on Schwinns I happen to be restoring at any given time. I would not use it as my main Schwinn book though. Is the review positive or negative?
Negative

Title: Great performances, horrible sound. Review: I ordered this CD based on the cast and price. I was not disappointed by the cast. The performances by the cast are uniformly great with moving interpretations of this classic.Unfortunately, the sound on the transfer is *terrible*. There is very noticeable distotortion of most (if not all) of the portions where the volume is moderately loud or louder. It sounds like you're listening to a cheap walkman with blown headphones.I'd like to give this disk 2 stars, but the extreme distortion at so many points in the soundtrack really can't compensate for the excellent performances by the cast. There are many other great recordings of Corelli and Nilsson as Calaf and Turandot (particularly EMI's #69327, use the Classical Power Search feature). I recommend that you pass on this one. Is the review positive or negative?
Negative

Title: Soggy Review: Beautiful playing, gorgeous sound. That will only take us so far. Abbado's rhythms have no spring to them, the orchestral colors are homoganized, the whole thing sounds slack. This isn't just a matter of tempi, although Abbado's are on the slow side. It's a matter of vision. Abbado here gives us an overly-romatic, non-ideomatic interpretation. There's little here of the Brahms who took long walks, smoked cigars and had to make his own coffee because no-one else made it strong enough for him. There's even less of the Brahms who sought the fusion of romantic sentiment into classical form. I've played this symphony and listened to many interpretations, and this is one doesn't suit my taste or what I read in the notes I played. For a bracing alternative, check out Klemperer's account on EMI, or Walter's, or Horenstein's. Even Bernstein gives us more authentic Brahms than this. Two stars for the orchestra and engineers. Is the review positive or negative?
