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to give the film a soul and an unabashed sense of good old-fashioned escapism

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in fact , the best in recent memory

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a sloppy slapstick

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a remake by the numbers , linking a halfwit plot to a series of standup routines in which wilson and murphy show how funny they could have been in a more ambitious movie
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