&#39;Without a Paddle&#39; drifts along aimlessly
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&#39;Drama is easy, comedy is hard&quot; -- a paraphrase of a well-worn line -- has likely been uttered by nearly every actor who has forged a reputation by performing the former and then attempting the latter -- usually somewhere near mid-career.
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Despite shaking from so many insecurities that you make Woody Allen seem calm as the Dalai Lama, you come to us without artifice. In the astoundingly unoriginal &quot;Bridget Jones: The
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Without a Paddle: Comedy. Starring Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard. Directed by Steven Brill. Written by Jay Leggett, Mitch Rouse, Fred Wolf, Harris Goldberg and Tom Nursall. (PG-13. 98 minutes. At Bay Area theaters).
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Boy loses girl, boy  loses sleep, boy finds new girl. The trajectory of &quot;Cashback&quot;  is boiler-plate basic, but writer-director Sean Ellis infuses  it with an imaginative sensibility that engages the viewer --  to a point. Stripped of its flourishes, there&#39;s not much going  on beyond a routine tale of growing pains, dressed up -- or  undressed -- with philosophical fillips and wet-dream fantasy.
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a senseless, impulsive shooting that the media didnât report â-orphed into a media circus last week when
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The film is interesting, but does not probe deep.
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BASED SIMPLY ON its tired premise and atmosphere, &quot;The Forgotten&quot; should be every bit as forgettable as its name. With so many elements - from its chilly autumnal setting to the
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Like Douglas Sirk without the throw pillows, âSunflowerâ is a shamelessly old-fashioned melodrama performed with such sincerity that resistance is futile.
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âThe Pirates Who Donât Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movieâ is a rather ordinary film with faith at its core.
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There is nothing stimulating about this album.
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An ancient battle. A little-known director. An R rating. No major movie stars.
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There&#39;s a song by a band I definitely don&#39;t listen to, &quot;Don&#39;t stop thinking about tomorrow,&quot; but the lyrics rather tellingly continue, &quot;Yesterday&#39;s gone, yesterday&#39;s
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.
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It&#39;s &quot;A Dirty Shame&quot; and somebody had to make it. And that someone pretty much had to be John Waters, the writer-director of &quot;Pink Flamingos,&quot; &quot;Serial Mom&quot; and &quot;Hairspray.
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"Racing Stripes" is unlikely to ascend to the pantheon of perennially watchable children's films, but what it lacks in skill, it makes up for in heart.
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: They chose a good week to launch a film about loss of rights and liberties - but the basic premise simply does not stand up.
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Alexander Payne&#39;s wonderful &quot;Sideways&quot; starts with a knock on one door and ends with a knock on another. The first knock is a harsh awakening into the kind of life that makes you want to stay in bed; the second