After over a year of a pandemic, the world could use a laugh | I used to rub the dirty parts |
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Sure, potty-mouth Schumer acts out, surrounded by crazy chaos, but leading man Bill Hader makes a gallant, alert, reactive foil, and at the end, order is restored and Schumer gets her man | Cameos from actors like Cuba Gooding Jr |
Faced with total financial collapse, Dick and his wife Jane Tea Leoni become criminals and soon hatch a plan to confront the CEO who got out scott-free with a golden parachute.
Dark post-soviet humor, refreshingly politically incorrect characters and an abstract parallel love story which barely makes sense even at the end | People are protective of their brand of humor, man |
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Although a damn fine comedy at heart, the film also serves as a sobering reminder of the sheer simmering level of racism and misogyny among the very same folks that got Trump elected | What puts you on the edge of your seat in this film is how you get there |
Napoleon and the residents of his Idaho town are a uniquely pathetic lot, and Napoleon Dynamite is a comedy that dares to present an entire universe of ugly personalities, fragile egos and social ineptitude.
19The Academy agreed, nominating the film for Best Picture in a stacked year that included Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption | The pace is relentless, the supporting players are brilliantly sketched and the script cuts like a scalpel |
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And each is conveyed in a measure appropriate to its form | His co-writer Marshall Brickman's suggestions meanwhile, apparently included It Had To Be Jew and Me And My Goy |
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