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80A minor comedy, though a major delight.
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80Apart from the deja vu all over again, Lucky Break is no worse a film than "Breaking Out," and "Breaking Out" was utterly charming.
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75There is not much here that comes as a blinding plot revelation, but the movie has a raffish charm and good-hearted characters, and like "The Full Monty" it makes good use of the desperation beneath the comedy.
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70Overall, it's good, not great.
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It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.
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Cattaneo proceeds gamely, though without much spark, through this familiar fare, but at least Nesbitt, with his sly, oddball charm, is fun to watch.
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63Isn't quite funny enough to make it as a comedy, or touching enough to make it as a romance. It's a pleasant effort that doesn't hit any of its targets.
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60Mike Leigh mainstay Timothy Spall deftly shades in the designated goner, fellow "Still Crazy" alum Bill Nighy is sweetly wispy as the capable fop, and anger-management counselor Olivia Williams trembles pleasantly as usual.
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60Lightly reflective and consistently entertaining, Lucky Break is an easy-to-take diversion.
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50The movie moves predictably to its feel-good finale.
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50Without the surprise, realism, audacity and upstart cheekiness -- pun intended -- that made "The Full Monty's" blue-collar strippers so irresistible.
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50Pleasant and has not a few laughs.
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50Pleasing but routine British comedy.
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50The movie moves predictably to its formulaic finale, which -- unwittingly perhaps -- reprises Plummer's own sugary classic, ''The Sound of Music.''
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50The big musical setpiece, rife with possibilities for humor and uplift, needed to be funnier and more energetic than the half-hearted lyrics and choreography bother to muster.
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50This is mostly well-constructed fluff, which is all it seems intended to be.
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40Neither the appealing cast nor the bouncing, ska-inflected soundtrack can keep the party going.
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40The end result is like cold porridge with only the odd enjoyably chewy lump.
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33Every porridgy inmate in this instantly forgettable romp warbles in the prison's amateur musical, and one of them demonstrates a rather extreme devotion to the tomatoes he grows in the on-site greenhouse.
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30Perfectly inoffensive and harmless, but it's also drab and inert.
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30Mr. Cattaneo restricts himself to the smiling blandness that has become the stock in trade of British comedies made for export, turning in a film that is forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending.
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30Chained to the floor by a script that isn't particularly funny, direction that goes for realism rather than stylization and an almost complete lack of comic timing.
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TerryH8This was a great movie. Don't listen to the critics.