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After an hour, I thought that Never Been Kissed might be the most fun teenpic since Clueless , but ultimately the movie takes too many shortcuts even on its own dumb, formulaic terms, and it can't make up its mind whether it wants to pander to teen-age fantasies of good looks and popularity or to scold teen-agers for being so shallow.
Colloquial Hebrew is excessively economical, and its shortcuts have been further abbreviated by the numerous acronyms used throughout the armed forces.
Marketing-driven decisions and programming shortcuts are the road signs to Flabby Software City.
During the last few days, however, Chatterbox has been a little pressed for time amid the hurly-burly of domestic life (the refrigerator broke down, the Chattersitter smashed up the Taurus wagon), and he's been looking for shortcuts.
Brooks' best scenes operate on an X-ray level of honesty, so that shortcuts, formulas, easy ways out of dramatic jams--stuff that slicker filmmakers can get by with--seem in his work embarrassingly exposed.