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Having recently been introduced to these two films, amongst the major successes in a bumper year of off-beat American comedy in 2007, it was heartening to see that American teen/ 20-something comedy is finally growing up.
Just when we thought the Ferrell/Wilson/Stiller gang was hitting its zenith, along comes the Apatow/Rogen/Goldberg crew to steal their thunder. [...]

I’m going to cut to the chase. Meet The Spartans is 78 minutes of complete and total, unmitigated shit. Quite how the writers (dreaded spoof-movie ‘gurus’ Friedberg and Seltzer) manage to achieve such levels of buttock-twinging awfulness is a mystery. If you want to experience the film without forking out the price of a cinema [...]

You can see this film in one of two ways; either it’s a shameless rip-off of Napoleon Dynamite, or the most originial New Zealand comedy ever made (granted, it’s probably the only New Zealand comedy ever made). Personally, I think it would be harsh to accuse this film of overt plagarism – after all, it [...]

If you can imagine a cross between Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine, then you’ve got Juno. Written by rising star Diablo Cody and directed by Thankyou For Smoking’s Jason Reitman, this is the kind of pseudo-indie comedy which has become very popular in Hollywood recently. The brilliance of films such as this and Sideways, [...]