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How is this a "good" movie?


This is an o.k. comedy at best; fitfully funny, often surprisingly lame (That exorcism bit should have been a deleted scene on a dvd. It was embarrassing to watch in the cinema.) There are clever bits here and there, but it's all very self-indulgent and obvious.

Why did this get 4 or 5 stars from my city's newspapers critics? A decade ago, crude, silly, low-brow comedies always got bad reviews. Even ones with more smarts than this one often got a 2 out of 5. What is the artistic/critical appeal here?

And there seems to be a certain smugness to Seth & company's post 2010 films that leaves a bad taste. I really liked his first few movies, but everything in the last 5 or 6 years have been lazy and annoying.

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