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75Executed on a pretty broad level, but if characterization is slighted, the ensemble is so rich, with such depth, that every few minutes another juicy turn keeps coming our way to divert us.
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75A murder caper that could have been written by Agatha Christie during a pub-crawl.
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75Scores high on nastiness, but it has as many surprisingly funny moments as offensive ones.
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71Follows a predictable low-comedy path, but does it with such fierce appeal and beautifully wrought wit that it doesn't feel quite like any comedy American theaters have seen since the equally underrated "Grosse Pointe Blank."
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63Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy.
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60With a hilarious script and capable cast, the film puts a clever spin on the everyone-is-a-suspect plot.
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50My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter.
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50Has a made-for-TV smallness (it will probably be a big hit on cable), and it never quite vanquishes the nagging suspicion that you could be spending your time better elsewhere.
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It can be broadly funny when it does not lapse into lazy "Dukes of Hazzard" caricature, which is often.
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50The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires.
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The ensemble actors give it their all, and that's as it should be in an absurdist comedy of this sort.
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40Tries for deadpan laughs but is merely lifeless.
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38A comedy murder mystery gone seriously astray, boasts an immensely talented cast .
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30Each of the characters is dull and boorish instead of witty and urbane.
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25Excuse me, but didn't Bette Midler already play this role?
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25A funny comedy for about 90 seconds. Then Bette Midler goes off a cliff.
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25There are enough mullets to win this movie a Stanley Cup.
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25The bad-taste murder farce is just an excuse for a bunch of actors to go slumming and ride about in - ha, ha - Yugos.
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20Is there anything so painful as a comedy whose every gag falls flat and then lies there, flopping like a dying flounder?
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20The movie is flat-footed, and the pacing gives you time to rest between laughs.
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20The only vaguely funny moments are courtesy William Fichtner, as the dead woman's husband, and Jamie Lee Curtis in full metal drag as his furtive squeeze.
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20Bette Midler and Danny De Vito mug more shamelessly than usual.
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20An endlessly contrived exercise in self-referential "black comedy", can't help but strike me as no kind of triumph of anything over anything.
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20The script plays goofy games, stopping the action for Tarantino-style small talk; piling on alternate, "Rashomon"-style flashbacks; and divulging its characters' secrets in no particular order.
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20There's a definite limit to the number of moron jokes we can absorb in 100 minutes, and their movie exceeds it.
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10With a sneer and a wink, Drowning Mona plunges us into a fresh deluge of idiotic Americana .
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10One imagines what the failed farce Drowning Mona would have been like in the hands of the Coen brothers.
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10A dreary crash of malapropisms and slapstick maimings wrapped very loosely around a murder mystery.
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10As dumb as the film is, the actors escape relatively unscathed.
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10A white-trash black comedy, a caustic working-class whodunit in which the solution to the murder mystery takes a distant back seat to countless barbs and jibes tossed in the direction of the mostly imbecilic cast of characters.
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10I watched Mona. I felt like drowning.
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10I didn't laugh once.
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