But Brian Bedford knows both his own dramatic terrain and his canvas . " The School for Scandal, " Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th-century comedy of character assassination and romance, needs its straight arrows as desperately as it requires its scandal-mongering fops.
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Happily, Gibson doesn't overwork the backstage slapstick and old-age gags, and instead skillfully turns the movie into both a subtle comedy of character and an upbeat affirmation of the crucial place rock music still holds in the survivors of Woodstock Nation.
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He adhered to Scribe's constructive methods, which combined the three old kinds of comedy the comedy of character, of manners and of intrigue with the " drame bourgeois ", and blended the heterogeneous elements into a compact body and living unity.
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So " Cellular " is really three movies in one : 1 ) a claustrophobic survival story; 2 ) a fast-paced youth adventure full of car crashes and goofy digs at cell-phone culture; and 3 ) a comedy of character and an offbeat vehicle for Macy's special shtick.
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But there isn't really much of a plot, the script goes for a leisurely pace and episodic style _ it actually " feels " like a'50s sitcom _ and it mostly strives to be one of those rarest of rare birds in today's Hollywood : a true comedy of character.
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It's a dumb and dumber comedy, written ( by Mark Steven Johnson ) and directed ( by Howard Deutch ) with a maximum of shameless mugging, sitcom situations and tired low-humor gags, and a minimum of wit, taste or confidence in the ability of its veteran stars to bring off a comedy of character.
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The film comes together to be less the wild farce and scathing satire that its publicity promises than a mellow comedy of character that communicates a gentle acceptance of human nature in general and family eccentricity in particular _ a film that likes its characters so much that it's impossible not to feel the same emotion.
