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Ricky Stanicky review: Zac Efron leads a broad comedy that completely bungles its tone

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Around six years ago, director and screenwriter Peter Farrelly ditched the world of gross-out comedies () in favour of . , about segregation in the American South, remains the worst Best Picture winner in recent memory, while the, set during the Vietnam War, came and went with barely a whisper. With , Farrelly tries to slide back into old habits only to

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