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...right, all right - RV is no Dumb and Dumber, that masterpiece of the moronic (which also featured the redoubtable Jeff Daniels), but it is also a nicely dishonorable addition to the small but often hilarious tradition of comedies in which the bourgeoisie get their comeuppance while navigating large vehicles along narrow and twisted roads. Anyone here remember Lucy and Desi in The Long, Long Trailer, way back in 1954? No? That?s too bad. But surely you recall Albert Brooks?s best movie, Lost in America (1991). Our movies - especially the supposedly funny ones - are so relentlessly middle class...
...performing on the show only so that he can blow up himself and the President in the show’s finale. Throw in Mandy Moore, a “white trash” contestant whose all sugar on top but conniving-as-hell underneath, and her earnest-but-dumb boyfriend, played wonderfully by Chris Klein, and the storyline is set for a stunning finale. What makes this movie so fun to watch is that Weitz can’t help feeling for all the “bad guys” he criticizes and for the American culture...
...generally none the worse for it. Though there's much to be said for a broad education, there's also merit in the view that children should be free to explore what interests them. Mujahidah Flint's daughter Tahirrah reads encyclopedias and dictionaries for fun. "I don't like dumb, funny books," she says. "I like the classics . . . Dickens, Kipling." At 10, she wrote her first book; her latest follows a troubled teen whose parents decide to homeschool her. Tahirrah has a clear picture of her future: teaching English in Turkey, her father's homeland, while continuing to write novels...
...there's also a subtle unifying theme here: how people deal with consistently terrible personal choices and precipitously dumb luck. When the film works, this busy ensemble piece succeeds because it is as much about laughing at misfits messing up as it is about hoping they can keep their acts together...
...Beyond the checking of the BlackBerry-how about my boss writing emails during my annual review! I stopped talking and he looked up at me like I was dumb for not continuing. He starts waving his hand, gesturing, while telling me urgently to "Go on." What is that about? Not to mention his phone-answering. During a meeting he was sitting in on, with one of my biggest customers, he picked up the phone and made a call...