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This could be the year's smartest romantic comedy.
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75Not a comic masterpiece, but it's entertaining and efficient, and provides a showcase for its stars. It's on the level of a good sitcom.
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70This isn't all gold--there are lame riffs on a booze-swilling dog and a flabby old man with a boner--but it's well above average.
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63Isn't exactly a good movie, but it turns out not to be bad, either. It's a romantic comedy that strains to be screwball but at least is likable.
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63Plays strictly to formula, the only real surprise is its apparently ironic title.
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63Designed to be a date movie, Rules could have stronger male appeal than many comedies of its ilk.
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63Has something many movies don't these days: interesting and attractive people talking to each other.
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60Manages to amuse as a cleverly concocted hybrid of conventional romantic comedy and mistaken-identity farce.
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58The rules of good screenwriting are mostly broken, though Jamie Foxx's smash-and-grab charisma remains intact.
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58Full of sharp ideas and wry moments awaiting the inspired ingenuity of a screwball comedy to pull it all together. It never comes.
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50Jamie Foxx finds his funny bone is firmly intact in the effervescent, urban-flavored romantic comedy Breakin' all the Rules.
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50The film's failure to adhere to one of the most important rules of humor -- never give extensive screen time to someone who is not the slightest bit funny -- prevents it from being a completely enjoyable, if silly, romp.
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50Not entirely bereft of chuckles, though it misses one comic opportunity after another (the best jokes are in the trailer).
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The cast, headed by the divine Jamie Foxx, is better than the material. Director Daniel Taplitz is better than the material.
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A story only slightly more complex than your average episode of "Friends."
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50Writer-director Daniel Taplitz seems to be trying to invoke classic screwball with this convoluted setup, but it plays like mediocre sitcom.
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50The hard-sell comic delivery one expects from contemporary date movies is pleasantly tempered here.
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50The actor's (Jamie Foxx) deft touch lends the flighty story of mistaken identities and romantic mix-ups among mostly African-American characters in Los Angeles the kind of saucy bounce that Cary Grant lent to similar roles six decades ago.
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40This tepid romantic comedy not only fails to break the rules, but it follows them to the letter.
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40It's nobody’s idea of a classic comedy, but in its own inoffensive and eager-to-please way it's a pleasant enough way to spend 90 minutes ogling the lustrous Ms. Union and Mr. Foxx's equally and endlessly fascinating volcanic coif.
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40Yet another unfunny buppie sex comedy in the manner of "The Brothers," "Two Can Play That Game" and "Deliver Us From Eva."
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40Written and directed by Daniel Taplitz, Breakin' has a hard time building up steam and an even harder time distinguishing itself from any number of UPN sitcoms.
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The threadbare plot gets considerable padding from alternately psychotic, lecherous, and greedy Caucasians.
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30No movie this stupid should need a plot synopsis this complicated.
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30A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters.
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25The freshest thing about Breakin' All the Rules is its dropped "g.''