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1) The gross-out scenes (one youth shtups an apple pie; another drinks a beer laced with semen) are just "sucker bait to entice teenage audiences into the tent to see a movie that is as sweet and sincere at heart as anything Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ever experienced" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). 2) Grossness is the film's essence: "[D]irty jokes are inserted at regular intervals like pop songs to perk up the action ...
Some are moved by the film's themes of redemption and spirituality; Roger Ebert says it's full of "vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Less kind reviews note the "inadvertently racist overtones" of the relationship between Hanks and Duncan (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and say the movie has the "suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (David Edelstein the movie in Slate : "not all of the movie is melodramatic, pseudo-mystical drivel--only about two hours and 15 minutes."
Dissenters find the film rife with political caricature and clichés: "standard-issue IRA dramatics" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the official site.)
The film is "simpatico enough to make the less-than-cutting-edge nature" of the work enjoyable (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ), but "it's unfortunate that what we are given is so standardized and generic" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to read a review of the best-selling novel by Mona Simpson the film is based on and to read Slate 's "Chatterbox" on a real-life character from the book.)
"Serviceable at passing the time, if nothing else is available," says the Los Angeles Time s' Kenneth Turan.
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