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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 902468" data-attributes="member: 7240">I'm amazed by all the grasping at straws to explain how the first movie or its sequel are not complete excrement. A few points:1. Jeremy Irons is a good actor in other movies. But his performance in D&D led most audience members to believe that he had joined the cast to fund his newly-acquired crack habit.2. Thora Birch is a perfectly good actress as long as she's not trying to do a British accent. I'm sorry but the accent alone was enough to make her performance utterly irredeemable. And if she shows up in the sequel, you can bet she'll have to keep the same ridiculous accent.3. The idea that the Wayans kid's performance is defensible because he played a more multidimensional character than the others just makes me want to cry. He played a cardboard cutout stereotype; it's just that the stereotype is so offensive to that such characters stopped appearing in mainstream movies by the 1960s. It's not that he played a real character: he just played a stereotype so antiquated, stupid and regressive that modern people don't immediately recognize it.The only positive statement from this thread that I will accept uncontested is that Zoe McLellan is cute.</blockquote>