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Though Van Groeningen knows where to stick the camera in a belchy testosterone-filled room, the back-and-forth between prideful independence and oblivion can get a little practiced, and is not helped by a final lugubrious turn, a strange daintiness at key points, and blasts of repurposed mood music.

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The rest of Coogan's gallery of comic characters is not well known here, which might account - in part - for the lacklustre first half in which we encounter the slatternly Pauline Calf (recently widowed and now author of a sci-fi thriller), her belchy unemployed brother Paul and, on video (covering a costume change, a voiceover admits), the hopeless amateur comic Duncan Thicket.

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Which is why it sort of made sense that, amidst all the egomaniacal foolishness of the Convention, I also noticed how incredibly pale and dyspeptic and queasy and belchy the attendees looked; men, women, children alike -- it was like they were all feeling just a little bit fluish -- like they had bad country club food, or one too many corn dogs, or too many sacks of sliders, or a few too many plates of fried dough cooked in rancid genetically modified canola oil produced from Monsanto seeds.

Elissa Altman: Food on a Shtick: The Minnesota State Fair and the Republican National Convention 2008