One of you kind souls paid me to suffer through the curdled 2006 Christmas comedy Deck the Halls, which is just like DeVito’s classic dark comedies except that it’s fucking terrible.
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Rewatching Tim Burton’s early masterpieces with my eight year old son is making me nostalgic for his golden age and even sadder about what he’s doing today.
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Hoo boy. This one is brutal.
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Finally, a movie where Danny DeVito and Dwayne Johnson play the same character! It’s like Twins, but not!
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Why do I do this to myself?
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As part of my patron-funded exploration of the films of Danny DeVito I re-watched the critically lambasted 2000 dark comedy Drowning Mona, which is as funny as it is mean.
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One of you kind souls paid me to see 2007’s Even Money, a gambling addiction-themed Crash knockoff with an amazing, amazingly random cast that includes Kim Basinger, Kelsey Grammar, Nick Cannon, Tim Roth, Forest Whitaker, Jay Mohr, Carla Gugino and Danny DeVito as a charming magician who strikes up a tender, unlikely friendship with Basinger’s troubled novelist.
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One of you kind souls paid me to revisit Danny DeVito’s darkly funny directorial debut, a riff on Strangers on a Train pairing DeVito’s nebbishy loser with a revenge-crazed Billy Crystal.
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One of you kind souls paid me to see and write about one of the Zucker Brothers’ sole non-parody, the brutally funny dark comedy Ruthless People, with Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater all at their very best.
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Twins stars Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger reunited with director Ivan Reitman for a high concept light comedy about a brilliant make scientist getting pregnant that received an icy reception from critics and audiences alike.
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