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Not all will be as eager to spend days at the ruins and it can be oppressively hot during the summer months.
No, what struck Jacob as oppressively squalid was the subject matter he was forced to contemplate week after week: fleeting, age-inappropriate sexual liaisons in the Oval Office; the seep of money into every cranny of the political system; Trent Lott; Newt Gingrich.
) More important, it has the Farrellys' characteristic mix of misery and brightness: Whenever the view of the working poor threatens to become oppressively self-pitying, the filmmakers pull something nutty out of their hat--a scam, a bit of stoner dialogue, a jolt of rock 'n' roll--to prove that this particular end only looks dead.
I found it so oppressively smug that I had to get up and pace the aisles three or four times, and I'd have bolted if I hadn't been duty bound to stick it out.