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- At times director Laird Williamson's adaptation is irksomely verbose.
- The inequity this dissonant convergence makes so irksomely blatant begs some fundamental questions:
- Who hasn't watched true-story television and thought, " Isn't there a middle ground between deadly dry and irksomely artificial ?"
- The plot moves swiftly from there, with Frances reaching the inevitable personal insights and Wells tying it all together _ a bit irksomely _ at the last moment.
- Daisy Dumas of the " Sydney Morning Herald " described it as " darkly cute and irksomely catchy " and the chorus as " instant earworm material ".
- Her parents, on the other hand, have other ideas, signing her up to be a counselor at an irksomely precious, insanely politically correct children's camp, the OK-to-Cry-Corral.
- "1 . ) Books, so I wouldn't have to interact with those other bozos . 2 . ) A pamphlet of inspirational verse, so that I can comfort others in an irksomely superficial fashion in times of woe . 3 . ) A garrote : Just in case ."
- The kids, in just one of " Get Real's " irksomely precious storytelling devices, all chime in on voice-over narration, even addressing the camera to drive home a particularly cute point; they finish one another's sentences and even saunter into one another's fantasy sequences.
- These actors have already assembled enough irksomely prepackaged mannerisms for a self-satisfied cast entering the seventh year of their series : They're already hermetically sealed in their affectations without ever having gone to the trouble of connecting with an audience . ( Their performances seem inspired most by the bouncy posturing of Fox series stars in their promos . ) The writing doesn't help them much, either : In two episodes, only one line evinced a smile.
- Robert Abele of the " Los Angeles Times " was critical of " The Boy Next Door ", calling it " breathless, uninspired ( . . . ) junk that feels like the iffiest bits of a Vanity Fair " wrote : " Given the material, Lopez is actually pretty darn good in the movie, taking it seriously enough that it's not irksomely arch camp, but also plenty aware that she's not doing Shakespeare.
- More important, the characters themselves _ including Chrissy, the feckless young woman who can't hold a job, whom we meet at a gym trying to keep up appearances; Agnus Angst, the teen-age punk performance artist; Kate, the affluent socialite with an irksomely trendy haircut; the humane prostitutes, Brandy and Tina; and Lyn, whose coming-of-age-in-the-feminist-era story commandeers most of the second act _ are vivid and shrewdly observed.