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Article: Observe and Report; Paris 36; Film notes
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KNIGHT AT THE MOVIES
Observe and Report; Paris 36; Film notes
Two films opening in Chicago this week vividly illustrate the difference between the tastes of the "vulgar" mainstream masses and the "cultured" indie snobs. Observe and Report, the mainstream effort, is indeed a vulgar but often hilarious comedy starring Seth Rogan, and it's a million miles from the sentimental, sophisticated theatrical artifice of the French film Paris 36. But both films play shamelessly to their core authences and both movies work because they mine familiar stereotypes that expertly draw in their audiences.
In the lowlife comedy Observe and Report Jo dy Hill - writer- di rector of The Foot Fist Way and ...