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...this, winking at every silly cliche of the genre. But Blair Witch invests ordinary things--piles of rocks, bundles of twigs--with horrifying meaning. Since similar objects appear in many shots, there's often a split-second when we're reminded of the unseen menace. And we can't laugh off our fears, so the tension doesn't dissipate...
...here's a salute to the Americans who make waitresses laugh and to the ones who pick up litter on the beach, the ones who stop to help the ones who have flat tires, the ones who return wallets, the ones who pick and sing for fun and the ones who run the Fritos pie booth at the PTA school fair. Here's to the clerks who say, "Now you have a nice day, hear?" and mean it, and to the ones who say wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers...
...driven wheelchair, it is just a sight gag--a one-shot deal out of which you cannot build intricately sustained comedy. The movie is loaded with this junk, but it has no authentic momentum or satirical viewpoint--and is finally lost to its own desperate, unavailing search for a laugh...
...often noxious. Kids who take their parents (or Liza or the Baldwins) should be prepared for some gasps and a scolding. As Cartman says of the Terrance and Phillip epic, "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." To viewers with sturdier cerebellums, here's another warning: you may laugh yourself sick--as sick as this ruthlessly funny movie...
...film sex scene demands a certain seriousness on the part of the viewer. That's hard to find now that moviegoing is essentially an infantile experience. We convene in a big, dark room and laugh at what shocks us. This may be why the consumption of movie eroticism has become solitary. Porn theaters have given way to triple-X videos, lap dancing to laptops...