Hit and miss.(FILM)(Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express)(Movie review)

National Review | September 15, 2008| | Copyright

THIS era's comedies may not be remembered as the funniest in American cinematic history, but they're certainly among the most inventive and unpredictable. The well-worn genre staples--sub-Airplane! spoofs, teen sex comedies, glorified Saturday Night Live sketches, bad Eddie Murphy vehicles--are still going reasonably strong, but ever since the late 1990s they've been eclipsed by a more gonzo sensibility. The Farrelly brothers kicked off this anything-goes era with feast-of-fools extravaganzas like Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber, and There's Something about Mary, but two overlapping ...

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