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hey , i've got a great idea for a movie !
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ok , here it is : we'll get tim allen to pull angry faces for about two hours or so !
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what's that ?
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sounds too boring ?
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ok , how about this then : we still have tim allen pull faces for about two hours , but half of them are angry looks and half of them are " i'm in pain ! "
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looks !
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what's that ?
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that still doesn't sound funny to you ?
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how about if we through in some " ewwwww ! "
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looks ?
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still not funny ?
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if you answered " no , that doesn't sound funny " , then ( ding ding ding ! )
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you're absolutely correct !
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for richer or poorer is a moronic farce about a rich married couple ( played by tim allen and kirstie alley ) who seek refuge in an amish community after their bumbling accountant ( wayne knight , best know as newman on tv's " seinfeld " ) gets them in trouble for tax evasion .
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what ensues is a badly scripted and horribly directed 114 minutes of cinema hell .
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what makes this all wrong is that nobody seems to have what the film needs .
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namely , talent !
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backing up , the married couple is brad and caroline sexton ( allen and alley ) , a popular snobby duo who seem totally in love to everyone else , but in reality are on the brink of divorce .
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just as their marriage seems to be hanging from it's final thread , brad discovers that his accountant , bob lachman ( knight ) , has been engaging in illegitimate deals in the sexton's names .
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the irs catches on , but since everything points back to the sexton's and not lachman , there is nothing much to do .
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except run away and join an amish community .
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first time screenwriters jana howington and steve lukanic give us a couple of chuckle-out-loud moments , and even some decent laughs here and * way * over there , but there is so much to cringe at in this horribly made film that you'll likely miss the laughs while regurgitating popcorn .
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alley is absolutely unwatchable , and the chemistry between her and allen is about as believable as my chemistry homework from tenth grade ( which , i inform you , was total b . s . ) .
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allen and alley are in no way convincing as tycoons , nor are they very convincing as an amish couple !
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this entire movie is one bad ill-conceived notion that should have been curtailed from the very beginning !
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the amish in this movie are also flimsy and unconvincing .
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it's such a trite , stereotypical script that i imagine the actors that were cast ( noticing that they're all predominantly tv figures ) were probably the only ones they could get !
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bryan spicer's directing doesn't help one bit , either .
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in fact , listing spicer's filmography ( which includes the first " power rangers " movie and the big screen adaption of mchale's navy ) is more of an insult than a r ? sum ? !
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now that i've pretty much run for richer or poorer into the ground , i will let you in on the best thing about it .
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it bumped seven films up a notch on my " worst of " 1997 movie list .
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that's right , thanks to this film ranking at number 3 for the year's worst , six films are now not seemingly as bad , and a smile like yours , previously inhabiting the number ten spot , now doesn't have to suffer the ridicule of making my bottom ten list .
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if you look at it in that respect , for richer or poorer will end up making someone happy after all !
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