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'Tag': The Games Men (Or Man-Boys, Anyway) Play

This "hit-or-miss goof" of an ensemble comedy, about grown men playing a child's game, features a loaded cast, a great soundtrack and impressive action set-pieces.
Jake Johnson's Chili (L) and Ed Helms' Hoagie (R) are part of a group of old friends who play an annual game of tag in ... <em>Tag</em>.

With Judd Apatow's 2005 phenomenon becoming a teenager later this summer, it's entirely fitting that its theme of arrested adolescence continues to dominate studio comedies, despite the third-act assurance in every one of them that, yes, it's perhaps time to grow up and put away childish things. And yet here comes , a hit-or-miss goof about middle-aged men still engaged in a playground battle royale, clinging to their lost youth like a cached beer keg

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