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90In short, Just Say Yes.
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88A real high in a season filled with unfunny comedies.
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80It's a breezy and entertaining little charmer.
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80It's a fresh installment in what appears to be a self-perpetuating sitcom of British life.
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80Has a charm that keeps you involved throughout.
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It makes you giggle. That's the dark, dirty secret. You giggle. You giggle again.
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80Harvests a bumper crop of laughs.
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80Solid formula comedy.
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75After an uproarious first half, Saving Grace arrives at its conclusion somewhat hastily and conveniently.
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75Has that same air of silly innocence, a rarity in today's movies.
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75A comedy of the old school. Depending on your view of the current state of screen humor, that's either a promise or a warning.
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75Though not quite up to "The Full Monty" or "Waking Ned Devine," there's just enough left in that overseas whimsy stockpile to generate good buzz (the word-of-mouth moviegoer kind).
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It has enough humanity to let the humor tickle, and a subject that will evoke memories for anyone who has ever smoked a joint or just said no.
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70Thoroughly dotty and surprisingly endearing.
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70Blethyn's solid-gold charm turns Saving Grace into a comic high.
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70Constipated English whimsy for the easily tickled.
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63Whimsy and wit are the saving graces of much British movie comedy, and Saving Grace has a decent measure of both.
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63It's funny and charming most of the time, thanks to Brenda Blethyn.
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63Blethyn glides through the proceedings elegantly, a comic swan among ducks.
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60That they're English and elderly apparently makes their antics screamingly funny to people who would turn up their noses at similar humor in a film like "Scary Movie."
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60Grace is not as tightly wound as the best of its breed, but it is a genial way to pass the time.
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58Wrings laughs from the antics of affable, eccentric villagers who cheerily break the law.
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58Never quite rises above its one-joke situation.
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50We're left with a promising idea for a comedy, which arrives at some laughs but never finds its destination.
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50Blethyn's lively acting and some visually amusing moments lend spice to this minor but engaging comedy.
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50Determined to be inoffensively tidy and cute above all else.
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50A sweet, loopy British comedy filled with good actors and funny moments.
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50Coy, cutesy, sentimental, and shamelessly manipulative.
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40A real audience pleaser.
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40Better in the end to skip it, and make Mother go it alone.
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40I've shot people for less.
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25It tries to get by on charm. It doesn't.
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Dennis10Hilarious Beautiful location (Port Isaac).