The review on Free Beacon is good.
Bad Words is the platonic ideal of a cinematic comedy.
Which caused me to look up "platonic ideal." Knowing Wikipedia tends to dazzle with intellectual pretension I chose Yahoo Answer instead. A risk, I know. But this:
Plato said that a particular horse can "flow", like in time it will get old and die, but the "ideal" or "form" of Horse is eternal and immutable.
OR, you might think of it in terms of cookies, yum, cookies! If you see ten gingerbread men all sitting on the counter that all look the same, you have a subconscious understanding that they came from a cookie cutter, and what that cookie cutter is like. In Plato's world, that cookie cutter in the "ideal" of a gingerbread man.
Pretty good answer.
First time I've seen Kathryn Hahn. All this makes me want to see the movie.
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intellectual pretension indeed. It should be the platonic representation of cinematic comedy. The ideal is beyond the particular expression. Bunch of aristotelian screw-offs there at wikipedia.
Many inorganic molecules are idealized platonic solids. I romanticized one story here.
"Bad Words is the platonic solid of a cinematic comedy!"
Who says "Go empty yourself and come back," and gets away with it in the real world?
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