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HALL PASS - REVIEW

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Whatever happened to the Farrelly Brothers? Now don't get me wrong, these guys were never the Fellini Brothers but for a while they were the go-to guys for gross-out, dumb but cute comedies. But after the genius of Dumb & Dumber , the creativity of There's Something About Mary and the extreme silliness of Me Myself and Irene things got too dumb ( Shallow Hal ) or too cute ( Perfect Catch ) leaving the brothers in a sort of comedy no man's land... Then Hall Pass comes along. Yes it's set in Providence, yes it's about two buddy idiots...but alas Dumb & Dumber this most certainly isn't. For one thing it's barely funny. Barring a couple of amusing build-ups or observations there's really nothing here to count on laughs-wise. Even the likes of Richard Jenkins, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer and Stephen Merchant fail to raise a single smile, it's really quite astonishing. That said, Owen Wilson is great and manages to create a surpri