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Noun
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The broadest of comedies, the film’s often puerile humor is driven by an endless stream of male bungling, blundering and whining, only to be kicked up a notch by pratfalls of nearly every variety, from getting bucked off a galloping horse to tripping into a pile of trash.—
Natalia Winkelman,
Variety,
27 May 2026 -
Two comedies round out the five-strong announcement.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Ludwigsen played each of the five commercial slapsticks five times in an anechoic environment, minimizing any acoustic room effects with absorbing wedges.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 June 2026
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