Try as he might, Boyle can't adapt his rugged style to this manicured turf and the sleek characters who inhabit it.
It was the kind of place I hated, an anonymous Eurozone of sleek global character too desperate to impress.
But beyond its eye candy, this wisp of a movie, inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's play "La Ronde," offers only hints of the complicated personalities behind the characters' sleek, well-toned surfaces.
It's a piece of advice that goes unobserved by Gionfriddo, whose characters – sleek and scathing, their wounds only lightly bandaged by banter – are always accessible; when they change, they don't so much develop as flip over.
I was left with a sincere feeling of gratitude that, at age 62, I will be dead by the time Mr. Bilton and his age cohort will be running things — and the realization that they will probably smother me with a pillow should I have the bad manners (ahem) to survive and, inefficiently, take up space in their sleek, cold, 140-character world.
They come in a sleek, compact case.
"Doggystyle" codified West Coast gangsta rap, with Snoop Doggy Dogg as a calm, arrogant, woman-despising character amid sleek pop hooks that gave the nastiness a likable veneer.
In earlier scenes, which show Philippa assembling a time bomb and slipping it into the wastebasket outside a sleek executive suite, her character is an ominously purposeful agent of fate.
However, in the film itself she is little more than comic relief; Grant's character prefers a sleek, demure redhead played by fashion model Suzy Parker.
(It also helps that most of the Pixar characters have the sleek, clean design of toys -- most of the creations might as well have manufacturers' names stamped on their necks).
