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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2003.05.19

Forget what it's about. What the hell was Eddie Murphy thinking? Getting into a movie with Owen Wilson!

While occasionally funny, this duo doesn't really work. And I don't know why, because both are charismatic and both can be funny. There's just no chemistry between them, or between Wilson and Janssen (and that's just inexcusable; Famke Janssen!).

Not recommended.

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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

—Steven J. Gould