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it sounds , but strikes a tone that 's alternately melancholic , hopeful and strangely funny

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offers no new insight on the matter , nor do its characters exactly spring to life

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an engaging ,

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is painfully foolish in trying to hold onto what 's left of his passe ' chopsocky glory .
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