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80This comedy is packed with p---- jokes, the cruder the better.
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75An unapologetically stupid and implausible movie, but in the best possible way -- it's so sure of itself, it wins you over.
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75It's still easily the funniest movie of the year.
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75The film is almost as shaky as the science, but Nichols knows how to get the most out of what amounts to a one-joke comedy, and Bening works virtual miracles.
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75A bawdy, brainy sex comedy geared toward smart people with a sophomoric streak.
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75Nothing more than a sort of dumb, sort of clever fish out of water comedy.
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75The trouble is that the film forsakes one sort of energy for another, and the downshift is a drag.
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70Let your children have their childhood while you have a rare, grown-up experience at the multi-plex for a change.
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Shandling and Nichols strain to reach a mainstream audience and wind up sounding like they, too, have been trained to tell us what we want to hear. Sorry, guys, but you don't score.
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63The film's asset, in a walk, is Bening, whose comic timing puts Shandling to shame.
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63In another universe - though it is difficult to imagine which one - Garry Shandling might be sexy.
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60Garry Shandling is poignant and hilarious as an alien stud.
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60With Gary Shandling appearing in just about every scene, only fans of his trademark whiny, disinterested delivery and sexist un-political correctness have a hope of enjoying his new film.
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50Goodman's comic delivery gets maximum mileage from a few amusing situations, though.
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50It's good for a few guffaws and chuckles, but in between the screen has a tendency to stretch at the corners and go flat.
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50Nichols usually can lure A-list casts to even C-grade projects, and this is no exception.
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50Unfortunately the whole thing is less than the sum of its parts, despite a frequently droll script and a great performance from Shandling.
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50There's a certain satisfaction in recognizing that Harold -- even when he inevitably starts to feel, just like a human -- remains something of an a--hole.
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50Good for a few lascivious titters but quite lacking in the sort of comic bite and social satire one hopes for in the work of Mike Nichols.
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48This one somehow gets about 300 percent better in its last quarter-hour -- suddenly this is a movie worth watching -- and it's over.
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40Has its sinfully funny moments. Funny, that is, if you appreciate a certain cynical clamminess -- or Buck Henry seediness -- to your comedy.
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40The buildup to social criticism in what at first appears to be pointless and partly misogynist exploitation is subtly impressive.
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30Adequately breezy and sleazy -- a movie about the horniest man in the universe looking for a little one-night stand.
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25Here is the most uncomfortable movie of the new year, an exercise in feel-good smut.
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25Falls disastrously flat.
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20Quite possibly, this could have been a hit back in 1975 or so, and almost certainly for Blake Edwards, but here and now it's just a puzzling aberration.
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20Bening's prickliness is pure delight, but there's only so much she can do. It's a terrible fate for an actress to be upstaged by a humming p----.
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20Shandling comes off as a sleazebag -- all that's missing are the gold chains, tufted chest hair and English Leather.
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20Sporadically funny, often strange and almost never poignant.
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20At once smug and lazy, qualities fatal to comedy.
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10Wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite.
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10The combination of Shandling's button-down TV sensibility and Nichols's good taste produces a film whose tone is out of sync with the simple, ribald conceit and is only mildly amusing at best.
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