(3 stars out of five)--Wow, this movie really wants to be the new American Beauty... It tries to mix humor and despair in equal parts, with limited success. In American Beauty, the humor seemed to evolve naturally from the drama around it. Here, it just seems manufactured and forced. The movie is at its best when it grabs hold of a melancholy tone and sticks with it; there's an extended sequence near the end of the movie, in which director Gore Verbinski (the director of The Ring and Pirates of the Caribbean, here in his first "serious" film) does just that, and the attention to detail in the sequence is almost startling. It's a shame that the rest of the film that surrounds this sequence is so poor.
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