Gervais and Merchant and the young cast do some things right with this feel-good Kitchen Sinker but the clichéd storytelling and heavy-handed lessons on life let it down.
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Hot Tub Time Machine
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Letters to God
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Date Night
Date Night doesnt break any new ground, it doesnt offer any sort of existential treatise on life, and it doesnt succumb to crude humorit simply is funny.