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...Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis pitched their script, they kept punctuating the plot twists with "Get this!" But sharper filmmakers than Falk, Ellis and director Adam Shankman got this fluffy genre down perfect about 60 to 70 years ago. Nearly everything in this movie (the mistaken identity, the Italian-buffoon beau, the romancing and dancing, the heavy piano underscoring as the lovers zero in for a moonlit kiss) was done better by Fred and Ginger, Cary and Kate. The only innovation here is a scene in which Mary uses a Q-Tip to remove a statue's limestone penis that...
...secularized Jew has not, however, extended to the Orthodox. Orthodox Jews tend still to be seen by the mainstream as eccentric, even alien. Ironically, this cultural allergy is particularly acute among nominal Jews like Woody Allen, in whose films the Orthodox Jew is invariably a bearded, black-hatted buffoon...
...help but wince at cliches such as, "So much for protecting her in my big Western arms" or "Orientals will always submit to a greater force," which he produces with over-whelming frequency. Rene follows in the footsteps of the comic figure prevalent in classical theater, a buffoon so completely blinded by a shallow and childlike ideology that he fails or rather refuses to foresee his eventual ruin...
...least juvenile double entendres about sex, and potty humor. But the central character--unlike those on the old series Martin on Fox, Def Comedy Jam on HBO and many of the other so-called urban-oriented programs that have drawn large African-American audiences in recent years--is no buffoon. In fact, as played by portly Chi McBride, he's the smartest character on the show...
...evidence to support their charges of a wide-ranging government conspiracy. Absolutely none. What they serve up instead is a murky brew of truths, quarter-truths and outright lies assembled by the latest in a long string of Ray defense lawyers: one William Pepper, who is either a credulous buffoon or a con artist. To promote himself and his book on the alleged conspiracy, Pepper has exploited the King family's understandable desire to learn the full truth. Pepper's de facto accomplice is Phillip Jones, an old friend of Dexter King's, the martyred leader's son who heads...