Word: preeners
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...what era? Adept at comedy and solemnity, synthesizing Michael J. Fox and David Cassidy in their early adorable phases, he is, so far, a movie anachronism - a throwback to when there was a big market for nice. Utterly at ease in the camera's gaze, he's not a preener; he gives the impression of being an O.K. guy who in his spare time is also this teen heartthrob. Which may be a higher form of acting: star acting...
...their wavelength, the functioning world is the one operating on false values. In Step Brothers that world is represented by Brennan's brother Derek (Adam Scott), a preener and underminer whose sabotaging of a Brennan musical performance back in high school was our hero's defining trauma. Now Derek has a couple of kids so impeccable, they hardly appear in the movie, and a wife, Alice (Kathryn Hahn), whose cooped-up loathing of Derek propels her into the loins of a very surprised Dale. But Derek is just here as the villain, and Alice to wean Dale out of babyhood...
...Cadillac, I don't miss them."), the pair of put-on artists, the bemused graduate student in mathematics who has lived in the house for three months without noticing that it doesn't include a cat and who tries to set himself afire to protest the Indochina war, the preener who wants to get into Kathy, even the flower child who is only into sitting under tables -- these characterizations are as funny and as right as they can ever have been. I think you should see Moonchildren, and I can't imagine anyone's not enjoying...
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