The latest picture from the Despicable Me director Chris Renaud, Pets might not have quite the same wit and polish in terms of screenplay as Zootropolis.
This is not to say her choreography lacks wit or whimsy, both in terms of small touches tucked into seemingly severe architecture and her choice of artistic partners.
In terms of wit and culture, the people I wrote for were vastly more sophisticated than the Spanish speakers I wrote about, who lived generally far below the poverty line.
The home side knew they were well armed in areas of red-rose weakness – for instance, they had three specialist openside flankers in their match-day squad, while the visitors could claim nothing more than a big fat zero – and they were confident that in the unstructured parts of the contest, the electrifying Hogg and the dangerous Russell held the ace cards in terms of wit and invention.
"He [Tarantino] gets a good product out of it in terms of wit and a visual look," said White.
The Boston Globe, comparing its debut episode ("a gloppy nostalgia trip that presented history the way MTV presents rock, in digestible, unrelated, bland bite-sized bits") to an episode airing less than five months later, found it "light years ahead in terms of wit, style and historical perspective.
Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic gave Residente o Visitante 4 out of 5 stars, noting the disc's diverse musical styles and unique lyricism: "Residente is a gifted rapper who matches Eminem in terms of wit and playfulness while Visitante is a similarly gifted producer who creates multi-layered tracks that rarely sound alike".
"It had been designed to show off his talents in terms of comic wit and charm," Dr McHugh said.
"In terms of matching wits with some M.B.A. who's got a Ph.D. in chaos theory, who's working on the derivative of whatever, the answer is no way.
The result is an unadulterated delight that makes up in wit and warmth whatever it may lack in terms of spectacle.
