This frantic comic hodgepodge built around Martin Short's popular Comedy Central character is an intermittently funny free-for-all that suffers from attention deficit disorder.
It is history, as one character says, as "badly translated joke". This funny, free-flowing, gloriously imperfect book has the impression of an important writer in transition, of moving from the dead toward the living, of trying to have some fun despite this land so crowded with the lost and the lamented.
It's got a five star average on Rotten Tomatoes and Pete Travers of Rolling Stone had this to say: The brightly-imagined Lego Movie is also a wickedly smart and funny free-for-all, and sassy enough to shoot well-aimed darts at corporate branding".
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Osborne is a new voice in the wine world, smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible, free of cant and arrogance and self-interest.
Apatow, despite working in another part of the business entirely, discovered (or rediscovered) something similar in his own work — first, in his earlier films, he gave his funny people free rein, and then, in "Funny People," he put his actors under strong psychodramatic light and filmed them in resonant relation to themselves.
Both John Larroquette (star of television's "Night Court") and Bronson Pinchot ("Perfect Strangers") are much, much funnier for free.
