Blurb Watch (Fallacy Files)

If you haven't seen it before, fallacyfiles.org does an occasional feature on "blurbs" from movie review taken out of context. Here are a few good ones (1, 2, 3) , and here is a sample of the most recent:

"An ad for [Norbit] has the following blurb:

"Eddie Murphy's comic skills are immense."
―Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

If you suspect that some context is missing, you're right:

Murphy's comic skills are immense, and "Dreamgirls" shows he's a fine straight dramatic actor too. So why does he want to make these huge, belching spectaculars, movies…swollen, monstrous and full of hot air…? "Norbit" makes you long for the days of "Beverly Hills Cop," when Murphy was lighter on his feet, and his movies were too."