| Kicked poorly and passed stodgily, but improved in the second half. |
| You get your hero's origin sequence, decent overview of his costume and civilian life, stodgily staged romance, plus two of the comic series' better baddies. |
| Wales started stodgily against an Irish pack well led by No 8 Brian Cawley and trailed 9-3 after fly-half Andrew Burke had outscored Halfpenny three penalties to one. |
| Though undeniably talented, Martin exhibits a hesitant sense of what separates the singingly oral from the stodgily ordinary. |
| For the most part, however, it's content to coast by on the romantic-adventure premise stodgily laid out in an uninspired screenplay. |
| So, there's the makings of a pretty decent comedy here but, after a promising opening, the film just stutters stodgily and even teeters towards being boring. |
