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Hundred Acre Wood resembles an idealized vision of America's pioneer past, a wild, empty land populated by a few hardy pioneers who band together when danger threatens (Heffalumps!)
) 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.
Such a life has very little to offer other women in the way of exemplary lessons, and we're right to feel a bit queasy over a first lady who promises (or threatens) to accomplish anything very substantive on the strength of who she's sleeping with.
At first, Rosenbaum threatens to present his own startling solution to the mystery of Hitler.
Brown also has a Clintonian streak that threatens to escalate pandering into a character issue.