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...character motivations in the film are also shallower than one would hope for. Discovering that Ronnie??s dark secret is that she was arrested for shoplifting and that her father didn’t actually commit the crime he was accused of feels entirely anticlimactic. It constantly feels like the film takes the easy way out, resolving conflicts by claiming they were never serious to begin with. The film never embraces the darker emotional toll that one would expect of such a supposedly dysfunctional family...
While all the relationships of the family fit together naturally, the peripheral presence of Ronnie??s rebel friend Blaze stands at odds with everything else that is occurring in the plot. Introduced as Ronnie??s first female friend, their quick bonding suggests that Blaze will be an ever-present source of camaraderie for the estranged newcomer. However, this character disappears for the entire middle segment of the film, only to reappear at the very end as someone who Ronnie has to rescue from her own emotional crisis. The lack of incorporation of Ronnie?...
...more extreme than his role as a rogue police officer in “Superbad.” Ronnie cusses like a sailor, gets high at work, and is mean to the one girl who tries to treat him like a human being. Rogen also pulls off Ronnie??s delusional arrogance without sacrificing his goofy awkwardness in more romantic scenes; at one point, Ronnie asks Brandi out by touching the top of her head and quipping, “You, me, free dinner... you fill in the rest with a yes.” With its meandering multiple...
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