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"What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times derides it as a "frankly and cheerfully fascist big-star movie," labels the violence "macho porn," and frets that though "sensible people know that if you hit someone with an ungloved hand hard enough, you're going to end up with broken bones, the guys in Fight Club have fists of steel, and hammer one another while the sound effects guys beat the hell out of Naugahyde sofas with Ping-Pong paddles."
Gabriel Schoenfeld, in an article for the June issue of that magazine, "Auschwitz and the Professors," deplores a recent spate of books and studies written by women (and a few men) he calls "feminist Holocaustologians," who indulge in "witless and malicious theorizing" and "the worst excesses" of a discipline--Holocaust Studies--he has no use for to begin with.
But critics say Selleck's good looks can't make up for his inept comic timing or for the show's witless humor--mostly cheap sexual innuendo and predictable punch lines.
If this is witless then I might as well pack it in because I wouldn't know wit if it bit me on the ass.
Forgetting that the original Dolittle was also panned, critics pine for "the good old days of children's movies" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). They lament the remake's addition of "a witless barrage of off-color bathroom humor" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) and its use of sophisticated computer graphics to make cute animals engage in sexual innuendo.
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