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Instead, left and right united in a screwball shared interest in rejecting any positive environmental tidings.
A screwball political satire about a senator (played by Beatty) who loses his senses and begins to babble the truth on the stump, the film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming, particularly coming from its hitherto overcautious auteur--not to mention a major studio owned by right-of-Attila Rupert Murdoch.
The best reason for seeing Forces of Nature --a sporadically funny but uneasily revisionist screwball comedy in which straight-arrow Ben Affleck is tempted from his imminent nuptials by free spirit Sandra Bullock and assorted natural disasters--is a scene in which the heartsick jock ex-boyfriend (David Strickland) of Affleck's fiancee (Maura Tierney) sings an a cappella version of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)" into her ear in the middle of a party.
(Each has a niche: Alec is the ideal psychopathic villain, Daniel the hard-drinking cop, Billy the slimy pretty boy, Stephen the screwball comedian.)
The Village Voice isn't buying the overuptight Affleck: "You can't have screwball comedy if only one party desperately wants to screw," writes Justine Elias.