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Overdrawn and Unbelievable

Orlando Weekly | March 27, 2007

Big Star song appearance alert No. 2! Too bad it's in such an awful movie. Picking on those trapped in a stunted preadolescence -- toy collectors, train builders, comic-book nerds -- is as unfair as it is obvious, but the exaggerations that director David Munro employs to make action-figure geeks Alby and Elias seem ridiculous only make the characters overdrawn and unbelievable. (Why bother, when the real thing can be way stupider?) Co-produced by Alan Cumming, with appearances by Amy Sedaris and Debbie Harry, Full Grown Men finds the two 30-somethings responding to Alby's prelife crisis by going to "Diggityland." Hijinks ensue.

Tags: David Munro, Full Grown Men

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