Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: not so good

I absolutely loved the John Irving book that this was based upon. Very quirky (especially for it's time), hilariously funny, and the characters he created were magnificent. In my opinion however, the movie was uninteresting and only mildly funny. Not many movies do justice to the books they've been based upon, for many reasons. This is no excuse for Hotel New Hampshire however. Irving's "World according to Garp" was a superb book (similar in length and complexity to Hotel NH), and was made into a very good movie. I'd recommend checking out that one instead if you want to see a John Irving novel of this period on film.