The West End, in fact, is in something of a musical slump, with a series of dodgy, big-budget, Gallic-tinged offerings like "Lautrec," "Notre-Dame de Paris" and "Napoleon," which opened on Oct. 17 to reviews heavy on words like "witless," "talentless" and "shameless".
If they had beaten Samoa, or at least not looked like such witless roadkill, Robbie Deans' men could have been forgiven a poor Tri-Nations campaign.
Its occasional mumbling about First Amendment rights seems more afterthought than agenda in this clumsy re-enactment of the film's production, release and subsequent obscenity trials, which unfolds like a witless "Laugh-In" sketch.
On the positive side of the ledger, he did not plunge our country into reckless adventures overseas like his witless predecessor, and he largely wound down the interminable wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
There are hotel boats from Porto, but these seem mostly to be witless, Duplo-like affairs into which you're tightly packaged and drably excursioned.
The poetry still rings in the names given communities like Heart's Delight, Heart's Content and Come-by-Chance and locations like Tickle Cove, Witless Bay and an island called Joe Batts Arm.
In my experience summer camp serves as a decent backdrop to North American coming-of-age-teen-flicks like Meatballs or the killing ground for a bunch of hormonal witless teens like Camp Crystal Lake in Friday the 13th and … that's it.
Michael Billington, in the Guardian, agreed: "We now get witless jokes like a pearl-dropping Sphinx and a drag Queen Victoria appearing to Joseph as he is led into Egypt.
Until recently the pre-school set has been forced to choose between witless shows like Heckle and Jeckle or non-commercial educational programmes so dull that adults could hardly persuade them to watch.
Some films disintegrate on impact, like Mr. To's witless shoot'em-up "Fulltime Killer" (directed with Wai Ka-fai); some are little more than excuses for their maker's dazzling technique, like Mr. To's three-ring genre workout, "Breaking News".
People are in need of help, and a witless gremlin like Theresa May is making sure they don't get it.
