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as if it were an obligation

negative

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a thoughtful movie ,

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this mess of a movie is nothing short of a travesty of a transvestite comedy .

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lacks the wit necessary to fully exploit the comic elements of the premise , making the proceedings more bizarre than actually amusing .
negative