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The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.
Newcomer Freddie Muniz plays Malcolm, a gifted 9-year-old, and is "that rare thing, an uncloying child actor" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Many critics compare the show to Fox's best-known half-hour comedy, The Simpsons , saying it shares the same sense of the absurd (mother shaves father's back at the breakfast table, etc.) with an "undercurrent of love and gentle support" (Ramin Zahed, Variety ). (Click here to find out more about the show at Fox's official site.)
In the 1930s, extreme right-wing groups such as Action Française and Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) provided a strong antidemocratic undercurrent to the political turmoil of financial scandal and parliamentary corruption.
A front-page WSJ feature on the current upsurge in home buying notes a troublesome undercurrent.
(This residual anger can be seen even in Bill Cosby's early acting--he's the only good thing in the otherwise atrocious Mother, Jugs & Speed and there's a compelling undercurrent of rancor in his work in Hickey & Boggs --before he retired from the human race.