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REVIEW; House of Wax' has little polish
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We all know that most of the people going to see "House of Wax"
will be there to watch Paris Hilton melt.
Sadly, this and almost all other meager hopes for the film will go
unfulfilled.
Sure, Paris gets whacked, a cinematic moment so appealing that
it's drawing cheers at previews of the film here and across the
country. But she doesn't liquefy. And once her highly anticipated
offing is accomplished, "Wax" wanes from merely bad to horrendous.
Not that there was much promise...
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