Comedy's length nearly wrecks it

Thursday, January 10, 2013

"This Is 40," written and directed by Judd Apatow, is a window into the world of a married couple, played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, reprising roles they had in a previous Apatow film, "Knocked Up." The framing device of the film involves the ups-and-downs during the week leading up to his 40th birthday party, but it delves into pretty deep water, as the couple fights against each other and for each other through all sizes of personal and professional crises. It has a lot of things going for it, and another thing going against it -- and that thing threatens to capsize the whole enterprise.

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