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I'm having a perfect moment.


You've got John C. Reilly all wrong if you didn't find him funny in this movie. It's not just the lines this man says, it's his facial expressions and body language that display his pure comedic genius. He's equally as brilliant in the indie film, THE PROMOTION! It's sad that people don't give John the credit that he deserves. He has such wide range as an actor and he's on his A game in this film. I was laughing so hard, it made my wife laugh hard and she wasn't even in the room. The subtext is so much funnier than what the say on the surface and you've obviously missed that. Watch it again and think of the wide range of possibilities that these characters can go, read between the lines. There's a lot of humor in the unknown and I love how they didn't deliver everything on the nose. If you didn't laugh, your mind didn't slip into the places my mind went with the freedom they gave us in the subtext.

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Reilly is awesome. I remember liking him in Magnolia, but it sure wasn't at all clear that he had such comedic genius in him. Dr. Steve Brule is like my favorite character ever...

I saw a SundanceUSA premiere in the town where this was filmed (I actually met Helms while staying at that hotel), and the director said afterward that Reilly told him that of all the "dumb" characters he had played, this was the dumbest. I can only assume he meant his film roles, since Tim & Eric is about as dumb as it gets...

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He's certainly talented. I'm not a fan of all his movies, and I wasn't quite sure at the beginning of this one. But he came through to say the least.

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I just laughed every time he was on screen he's just funny to look at. The scene in the pool when the big boss comes out and sees them and he starts yelling at him "kinky old bastard" I just cracked up.

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