10-12-2006, 11:50 AM
The Chron gave this a jumping-out-of-the-chair man, but I think it was because Steve Carrell plays a suicidal gay Proust scholar. Steve's funny. I love him in the Office. Alan Arkin is funny in this too. He says 'fuck' a lot and he says it with gusto. The film starts out funny, sort of a quirkly-dysfunctional-road-trip movie, but it loses speed around the middle and the rest is mediocre. Decent performances and all, but it fails to deliver in the end. If you're really interested, save this one for rental; it's not a big screen experience by any means. I'd only give it a sitting-up man at best.
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