"Rush Hour 3": Worthy of a few belly laughs.

From: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) | Date: September 12, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Jeff Simon

Sep. 12--Look, I'm going to ignore the people in the center of the theater at the screening of "Rush Hour 3" who seemed to laugh uncontrollably at everything that happened for the next 90 minutes. Two things about the movie seem incontrovertibly true:

1) It's a cheesy and bad movie.

2) It's pretty funny in the cheesy and bad way so many of America's favorite film comedies have always been. Let the highbrows maunder on and on about Chaplin, Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder.

We're talking here, instead, about Abbott and ...

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