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• The client interface was derided by reviewers as "clunky" and "a busy affair" for its plethora of features.
• Writing for musicOMH, Sarah McDonnell highlighted the input from Bernard Butler, feeling that different co-writers make the album "patchy in places" and as a result, Ellis-Bextor's songs "sometimes sound a little self-conscious and clunky, almost a little too earnestly conveying her message".
• Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote that the film "takes true trash cinema devotion to satirize the clunky visuals, banal dialogue, logic gaps and pseudoscientific silliness of a bygone era’s schlockiest obscurities quite so accurately, complete with one-beat-tardy editorial rhythms".
• That's why a movie like Deterrence, Rod Lurie's clunky political thriller about nuclear brinksmanship in the near future, probably serves some useful purpose, despite its ham-fisted preachiness and mediocre acting.
• " Critic Nathaniel Thompson wrote that "the junky charms of this film are plentiful as it reels out pages and pages of ridiculous 'gee, whiz!' dialogue, a clunky soundtrack cobbled together with stock music from other '50s sci-fi films, and some juicy overacting" and that the film features "'minimalist' sets that would get thrown out of most high school plays," nevertheless concluding that "this one's a keeper.
• " While reviewing The Ultimate Collection, Nick Levine of Digital Spy added, "Houston's floor-fillers have aged a little more gracefully, although their clunky, thudding drum sounds are as unmistakably Eighties as Joan Collins' Dynasty wardrobe.
• Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle considered the film "meticulously detailed and expertly paced and photographed", Roger Ebert however called it "just a big, clunky movie containing some sensational sights but lacking the zest and joyous energy we expect from Spielberg".
• The review added that Legend of Earthsea was "shabbily and indifferently directed", and that the dialogue was "dreadfully clunky and often excruciatingly bad".
• Entertainment Weeklys Gary Eng Walk rated the game an A−, praising the level of difficulty and puzzles while noting that the controls "are sometimes clunky".
• Club writer Nathan Rabin described Ghosts as "clunky, leaden and overblown", and said it was a "staggeringly blunt" allegory for Jackson's life and pop culture status.
• PopMatters gave the album 9/10, opining that "Aside from a couple of hiccups (the clunky R&B of "Get By", the silly call and response of "Knock Knock"), it's every bit as good as Boy in da Corner, and sometimes even better".
• In PC Zone, Charlie Brooker critically called the Windows version a bad conversion with slowdowns, clunky animation, jerky aiming and blurry high resolution.
• Kenneth Turan compared the choice of Jeremiah Chechik to "assigning Captain Kangaroo to direct 'The Silence of the Lambs'”, concluding, "the entire picture has a clunky, hand-me-down feeling.

• Caught somewhere between 1940s film noir and digitally spiffy contempo fare, "Yesterday Was a Lie" toys with time in story and style, putting a hard-boiled dame at the center of a clunky David Lynchian cosmic mystery as the search for a missing notebook leads to grand (yet underwhelming) revelations about the nature of reality.

• Critics were divided on the game's investigation elements: GameSpots Petit called it "compelling" and praised the rich details, while Eurogamers Welsh called it "clunky" and "laborious"; Helgeson of Game Informer felt they became repetitive over the course of the game, feeling "more like an Easter egg hunt than an actual investigation", while Liebl of GameZone criticised the lack of significant penalty.
• United Airlines (under United Aircraft, which was also the parent company of Boeing, at the time) had monopolized all Boeing 247 production, forcing TWA to look elsewhere to modernize their fleet from the wooden Fokkers and clunky Fords; the Douglas DC-2 was the result.
• As the elephants were "big clunky animals, crushing everything as they march through", the Shermans thought the best song for them would be a "heavy and ponderous" military march, with feeble lyrics only describing how the platoon tramples what is in its path.
• Edge Magazine staff said the "violent, messy, grim, clunky and somewhat absurd" Lancer "epitomises and fortifies the games’ style, tone and themes", and emphasized that in the video game medium "where guns are more common than plotlines, the Lancer does the seemingly impossible: it stands out".
• John Hartl of The New York Times described this book as "absorbing" and that it successfully illustrates how Tzu Hsi attained power; according to Hartl, the narrative was sometimes done in a "clunky" way.
• In a pair of mixed reviews in Game Informer, Matt Helgeson said the interplay between styles in the single player mode "sometimes pays off in surprisingly inventive ways", but "just as often it's a complete mess", and found it too "clunky" to give high marks, but said "the great parts of this game are really something to experience"; Brian Vore had a similar assessment, saying "for all of the clever bits in Cookie & Cream, there's a hearty dose of frustration to go along with it", singling out some annoying mini-games, sloppy controls and an unhelpful camera angle.

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