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Overripe, Undernourished.(Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Smart People)(Movie review)
Why is it so hard to make a good comedy set on a tropical island? This is a question that has vexed the sleep of the greatest film theorists and scholars. Think of the lame "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990), with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan; or of the shirtless Owen Wilson caper, "The Big Bounce" (2004); or of Anne Heche and Harrison Ford, eying each other warily, then snarling and scrapping, in "Six Days, Seven Nights" (1998). Beauty is the killer here, especially in the Hawaii films. In the background, purplish clouds gather over dark-green hillsides, and enormous rocks greet the sparkling ocean and send frothy tumult into the air. . . . Hawaii is so improbably gorgeous that ...
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