Word: cleverisms
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...Pretty clever, but not really great. And that is precisely what the movie Men is--pretty clever, but not really great. The ingredients are all there: good acting, great filming, and an amusing script. But Men falls short somewhere...
...Pretty clever, but not really great. The best part of this movie, though, is not the lackluster humor or even the offbeat plot, but the relationship that develops between the two men. At first, Stefan refuses to rent his empty room to Julius, but after the latter pushes, he consents. Bit by bit, the two begin to become close friends, or at least as close friends as one can become with your wife's lover...
...sort of movie you'll laugh your way through; nor will it make any great sort of impact on you. But just in case you discover your spouse is sleeping with someone, you'll need to know how to deal with it. And in a manner that's pretty clever, but not really great...
...rivals on the theory that "you were all going to meet one day..." Of course, the results are disastrous and Nola should know better than to have expected civility on such an occasion. Still, Lee can be forgiven almost any such questionable twists of plot because of the wickedly clever insults that fly as the men vie for Nola's attention...
Finally Lowell threw his harpoon. He "said to Frost that I wanted to ask him how his reputation had become so exaggerated." Wilson does not report how Frost responded to that -- perhaps he just gasped -- but adds that the victim "looked like a clever old elephant." And after dinner, Mrs. Lowell "went upstairs to her room and burst into tears...