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'Rasslin' movie is disqualified for lack of funny business.

Publication: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Publication Date: 16-JUN-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: 'Rasslin' movie is disqualified for lack of funny business.(Everyday)(Movie review)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Joe Williams POST-DISPATCH FILM CRITIC

Humor, like beauty, is subjective, and just a few degrees of tilt can alter the effect. "Napoleon Dynamite" was a surprise hit because the deadpan satire of small-town life had an undertone of sympathy for the uncool. Director Jared Hess paints with the same cartoonish palette in his follow-up, "Nacho Libre," but without a sympathetic hero, the effect is just ugly.

Considering that it stars the innately...



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