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It relies heavily on Minnesota-bashing--the film has "more lutefisk and Lutheran gags than a year of A Prairie Home Companion " (Richard Corliss, Time )--and predictable jokes about stage mothers and bitchy teens.
Praise goes to Kirstie Alley, who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie business: "Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary" (Richard Corliss, Time ). The Washington Post 's Tom Shales dissents, calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and "in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy."
But mostly critics admit to enjoying the "guilty pleasures, including banzai bikini footage" (Mike Clark, USA Today ) and "babelicious lesbians" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Others wonder how the movie got away with an R rating and find it lacking even "the saving spark of low art or high camp" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Click here for the official site.)
"The studios sensibly scaled down" in the wake of the Christmastime smash hit, says Time 's Richard Corliss.
And by making Hercules a sports star and another character a Hollywood agent, the movie proves that "Walt's art form is still sassy and snazzy" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Disney serves up tie-ins galore on its site.)
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