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60Character eccentricities and off-kilter group dynamics play out with a comic vengeance.
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60It's more about watching an ensemble cast try to one-up one another's performance than anything else – and for what it is, it works.
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50In the expanding genre of quirky comedies, first-time writer-director Michael Clancy's messy, fitfully funny Eulogy is among the quirkiest.
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50Neither ditzy enough as comedy nor realistic enough as human drama to live a long life.
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The movie is like a promising date that goes nowhere.
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40The occasional amusing one-liner can't compensate for the broad caricatures and awkwardly structured story.
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38That Eulogy has any laughs is largely a testament to the understated Romano -- he and Deschanel are the only ones in the cast who aren't straining to be funny.
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30Feels like a quirky sitcom -- "Arrested Development" without the development.
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30The screenplay is closer in tone to an uneasy mixture of post-"Seinfeld" bile and unfocused Altmanesque satirical misanthropy. Partly because the story's structure is so haphazard, most of the jokes land with a thud.
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30Nine very good actors are wasted, if not embarrassed, by the thoroughly unconvincing shenanigans perpetrated by first-time writer-director Michael Clancy, while a tenth -- Zooey Deschanel -- somehow manages to float ethereally above it all with her dignity intact.
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If the recurring gag about Grandma's suicide attempts doesn't have you rolling in the aisles, there's always the domineering aunt whose husband sits at the kiddie table.
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16The cast itself is weirdly overqualified.
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