This movie falls between two stools — not funny or serious enough.
fall between two stools
idiomTo fit into neither of two categories and, hence, be neglected or fail.
Origin
first recorded 14th c.From an old proverb, "Between two stools, one falls to the ground", which dates from 1390. This, in turn, is most likely a translation of the medieval Latin proverb labitur enitens sellis herere duabus ("he falls trying to sit on two seats").
The product was too expensive for students but too basic for professionals, so it fell between two stools.
Caught between the avant-garde and the commercial, her second novel fell between two stools, pleasing neither critics nor readers.
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beast with two backs
Two people united in sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
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eat for two
To be pregnant
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fall apart
To be emotionally in crisis.
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fall around
To fall over continually, especially through drunkenness, clumsiness, or incompetence.
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fall asleep
To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
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fall at the last hurdle
To fail near the end of an activity, a project, etc.
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fall behind
To be late (for a regular event)
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fall between the cracks
To wind up in an unexpected situation which is, inadvertently, invisible to or not handled by whatever process one had hoped to be subject to; to be overlooked.