The Team Works!

Advantages: You'll laugh from start to finish
Disadvantages: So hard, you might wet yourself.

...the traditional ?Thunderbirds? style. Politicians and public figures don?t get an easy ride, either with Hans Blix, Michael Moore and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il coming in for some especially harsh treatment. The American inability to see a world beyond their borders, excepting their tendency to think of every Arab as a terrorist and their ?Fools rush in where angels fear to tread? approach to foreign policy has fun poked at it. And if you?re a member of the Screen Actors Guild and use your position to attack your own country then you?re really going to think you?ve been harshly treated. For the rest of us, though, it?s a lot of fun. In Paris, several thousand miles East of America, a young boy spots a meeting between Osama Bin Laden and some other terrorists. On raising the alarm, the terrorists take action, but they?re stopped by Team...

Soho_Black 13.02.2005 · Read review
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The meeting that never happened.

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

...I would just like to write a review on proposed meets, or rather one that I tried to organise that never really happened though. However, I accept that this may not be in the correct topic area of choice and so I would just like to apologise in the here and now before anyone has a go at me! You see, about two or three years I think that I had put on my 'about me' part of my home page about meeting up all of the way down here in sunny Plymouth. Never having arranged a meet before (but at the time seeing that some people were already writing reviews on those that they had either been to or organised); I thought that this would be the best way to do it. How wrong I was, as only about four people actually got back to me ? and in fact, the closest one I think was from Barnstaple way (North Devon)! And so as you can imagine, I was...

dynamicnurse 26.11.2009 · Read review
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* Meet The Fockers *

Advantages: Funny!
Disadvantages: None!

...Meet The Fockers is an American Romantic Comedy movie released in the United Kingdom on 28th January 2005. This film was directed by Jay Roach and stars Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro. Meet The Fockers is the sequel to the film Meet The Parents. Running time of the movie is one hundred and ten minutes (ten minutes short of two hours). I remember first watching this movie approximately three years ago when I stayed at a friend's house , although we were too busy gossiping to actually pay any attention to the actual film. So , the other night , beings as this film was on the television , I decided to watch it. When Gaylord "Greg" Focker gets permission to marry his girlfriend Pam (whose dad happens to be an ex CIA agent) , the couple and Pam's parents along with Pam's little nephew go to Florida to visit Greg's parents Rob...

xdonzx 05.01.2009 · Read review
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Team Fortress 2 (updated)

Advantages: good team play, fun graphics, constantly updated and improved
Disadvantages: hard!

...Since Team Fortress 2 has been updated alot lately, i only think its fair i update my review. TF2 is a first person shooter, online multiplayer fiasco. Its like Battlefield 2 took some drugs with Walt Disney and then got in a washing machine and set its self to rinse. The graphics, as you can see, are very cartoony, as was the case with TF classic (so im lead to believe). But dont let that put you off. They are awfully good graphics and its quite a pretty game. Its worth mentioning that like the battlefield series of games, (and others) TF2 has "classes". There's the scout, Pyro, heavy, demoman, soldier, medic, spy, engineer and sniper. Unlike other games though, the classes here are very very different. The difference between the Scout and Heavy for example are astronomical. The scout has only 150 health, a bat, a pistol and shotgun...

AgeUK 23.09.2008 (16.04.2009) · Read review
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Everyone meets Joe Black

Advantages: A really pensive film
Disadvantages: Maybe a little too long

...Meet Joe Black is in my opinion a very strange film. It's rather long at nearly 3 hours in length yet the storyline is very simple. The way in which it is constructed however and because of the nature of the story itself makes the film a rather pensive one and so the 3 hour length gives the audience time to think and reflect on what the story is trying to tell you. The film begins with a chance meeting between Claire, a millionaire's daughter and a charming young man in a coffee shop. From the start there is definitely an air of romance within the air. Could this be the man her dad was always telling her to find. Unfortunately as the pair leave the coffee shop in opposite directions a car hits the young man. The millionaire, Bill, himself at this point is due to turn 65 in a few weeks and after hearing a voice he believes to be...

MI9to5 24.09.2008 · Read review
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Meet and Greet

Advantages: Lots of gags.
Disadvantages: Very little story and some average animation.

...-futuristic setting with Hammond organ and theremin (that weird spacy instrument often used in 50s' sci-fi), 50s' lounge motifs and 60s'-style spy themes. He's not above camping it up with B-movie horror brass and his trademark chimes get their chance too, reflecting the wistful ending. The other soundtrack choices don't fit as well. The new Rupert Wainwright 60s-infused pop is okay, but the schmaltzy indie rock and vocoder-heavy end credits theme jar with the rest of the film. "Meet the Robinsons" is a fun romp for kids that will no doubt keep them entertained throughout the running time. There are enough jokes to keep the adults amused too. However, the morals of the story are clumsy and you'll be hard pressed to remember much of the movie once the end credits have rolled. The animation is pretty strong, the director has a good eye for gags and there...

afy9mab 13.12.2007 · Read review
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London Ciao Meet and Greet!

Advantages: Great to meet people from Ciao!
Disadvantages: Not veryone could make it!

...never knew it existed. After being a member for three years on Ciao I always thought that you were awarded Diamonds from receiving exceptional ratings but now I know that you get them because people nominate your reviews to the Ciao team. I was surprised by this revaluation but it is something I would never have known if I hadn't organised this meet. Next to arrive was Mattygroves: Kate who I have met before, Kate brought also brought along her 15 year old daughter, it was great to meet Kate again and to hear her comments on the Meet as I know she has attended many different ones in the past. I also really enjoyed chatting to her daughter who was a very nice young girl with a sensible head on her shoulders. I was so pleased that so many people had come along to the meet at this point that I thought a group photo was in order, we asked...

LIZKEMPO 30.10.2006 · Read review
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Team America: World Police review

Advantages: Original, hilarious songs
Disadvantages: May be too offensive for some

...Team America: World Police is the latest film from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, better known as the creative geniuses behind South Park. If you've seen South Park, you'll know what you're in for here. The film is about Gary Johnston, a popular Broadway actor who is recruited by Team America, a counter terrorism force, a group of the best of the best, to help them in the global war against terrorism. They need him to infiltrate a terrorist cell and find out what they're planning next. This is a more personal mission for Team America as they lost one of their own in Paris during an attack. Along the way Gary has to contend with celebrities, his own failures, and love along the way, but will he be able to pull himself together and help save the day? The puppets in this film are all excellently made, with lots of facial and joint...

Walter_Kovacs 02.01.2009 · Read review
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Team Fortress 2 - the most original game for a long time!

Advantages: Truly original and completely addictive, great community for all players
Disadvantages: No use if you are unable to play online

...What sort of gamer are you in general, a quick, raiding wasp of a player who attacks and runs away unscathed - then repeats? Or maybe a turtle who enjoys the safety of his own castle while raining down destruction on far off enemies while providing vital aid for nearby allies? Or maybe, just maybe you'll realise that you are a highly skilled villain - the much feared and respected scum of the gaming world who uses clever underhand tactics and mind games to dominate? Do any of these sound like you? Well they describe perfectly just a few opportunities open to you in Team Fortress 2, the Scout is a nimble baseball fan armed with a scattergun and a baseball bat who can run circles around slower enemies until... He runs into range of an engineer's sentry gun built nicely into a corner with its turtle-like maker crouching behind it...

TudsW 24.10.2009 · Read review
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Go home, team!

Advantages: Some comedy, nice message.
Disadvantages: Cheesy story, not the best acting.

...So I'm sat in my room bored and decide to have a browse through my DVD collection, which includes a bunch of cheap two on one disc movie sets which came with my DVD player. I come across one after reading a few blurbs, about a former football hero who is forced into community service at a children's home. The homes administrator Karen is desperate to find an outlet for the kid's undoubted energy and tries to persuade Butler to coach a team; but he rejects the idea. The tale of this group of misfits starts when they enter the football league anyway with no strip, no sponsors and no coach and find themselves on a loosing streak, yet through all this they manage to show team spirit and each defeat strengthens the bond between them; doesn't that just sound adorable? And so it begins with an unmemorable line as he enters the "rat trap...

spin2021 02.09.2006 (06.05.2007) · Read review
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