This film is about a whinny chauvinist. Not that this makes the movie unfunny, rather that is part of the humor. But the best parts are play in cameo appearances by Jack Black, Luke Wilson, Tim Robbins, Vince Vaughn, and Ben Stiller. The story starts off being about something, and then takes a dive into the deep end of cliches and predictability. It makes a lot of jokes you've heard before, while making you laugh with the outrageousness of the situations.
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Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot. My twitchin' muscles tease my flippant thoughts. I never really dreamed of heaven much until we put him in the ground, but it's all I'm doing now - listening for patterns in the sound of an endless static sea. ~ Conor Oberst
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1 comment:
It was an okay movie. I liked the part with the big gang fight between all the weather station crews but hated the time period they used. So corny.
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