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38There's really just not a lot here. I'm sure Racer's story will entertain the very wee ones -- but so do keys.
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38The low-tech film looks like a kid's crude drawing, plays like entry-level Game Boy, and is about as nourishing as a Tootsie Pop.
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38There's sad news to report about The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D: Put on the cardboard glasses, and you can still see the movie.
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38As sweet and hopeless and silly as a doting dad framing his second-grader's latest finger-painting and calling it a Matisse.
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38The story's so sloppy that it contradicts itself constantly.
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30The concept is cute and the movie starts out well, but it devolves into a muddled, overstuffed mess that wears out its welcome around the time the novelty of 3-D effects wears off.
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30Sadly, the film's creaky, sometimes painful dialogue makes it all too easy to believe that it was genuinely co-written by a small child.
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30Based on characters created by Rodriguez's then-seven-year-old son, Racer Max, the film doesn't belong in wide release. It belongs on a refrigerator door, alongside "100%" spelling tests, old lunch menus, and notices from the PTA.
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30Pretty lame. Sharkboy has an especially frantic, amateur atmosphere, with a mostly maladroit cast.
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25Sharkboy relies almost entirely on 3-D for its kicks. The novelty, however, quickly wears thin with the thinnest of stories to project.
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25One could forgive a budget this threadbare, performances this amateurish, a plot this tortuous if the 3-D effects passed the cool test. Sadly, watching ''Adventures" is an experience akin to seeing the world through dung-colored glasses.
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20A bizarre, hopelessly muddled fantasy that's likely to induce utter bewilderment in its target audience.
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20Visually undistinguished, narratively inert, populated by a cast of charmless child actors, "Sharkboy and Lavagirl," with any luck will fade quickly from theaters, memories and Rodriguez's own Things to Do Today list.
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10The result is astoundingly boring and, frankly, tedious to sit through.
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