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...like Get Smart.) With a story assist from Reilly, Ferrell wrote the script with Adam McKay, a fellow alumnus of Saturday Night Live and director of two Will winners, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The new movie also explores the comic notion of man-child that goes back to the silent era (Harry Langdon's basic character was that of a deranged baby) and early talkies (the Three Stooges). But today they're everywhere - Ferrell played a pretty endearing one in Elf - which leaves the few remaining adult-male comedy roles...
...Directed by Adam McKay; rated R; out now So how did this farce, about two severely immature guys (Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly) forced to live together, earn its R rating? Actually, we can't say. Gross-out jokes aside, this is a minor entry in the grand comic tradition of grown men playing children and idiots destroying things...
...with the Surrealists'. He was shy, abstemious, almost obsessively neat and faithful to his wife. But he was the purest dreamer in Paris, and they needed him. Miro had none of the Surrealists' political interests; the closest thing to a political painting he ever produced was a highly abstracted comic figure of a horse-policeman, with one red hand, presumably imbrued with blood, which may refer to Catalan street violence in the '20s. And his premonition of civil war was expressed in a single gloomy still life with an old shoe and a murderous-looking fork. Like most art that...
...among these are Ferris' sister (Jennifer Grey), who just hates the way he gets away with everything, and the dean of students (Jeffrey Jones), who distills all the pettiness of spirit and smallness of mind in a teen's view of adult authority. Jones provides John Hughes with the comic mainspring he needs to launch himself successfully in a new direction. In The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Hughes portrayed adolescent angst in a fairly realistic light. But from the moment Ferris turns to the camera to address the audience, we know that realism is out. Ferris...
...this hypersensitivity comes, ironically--sorry!--as political comedy is surging: not just Jay Leno and David Letterman but now Stewart and Stephen Colbert, online satirists and news hosts like Keith Olbermann, who is as much comic as anchor...