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In general American (So-called) humor leaves me cold. The antics of the likes of 'national lampoon' and Steve Martin seem more crass and pathetic than funny. Also I'm somewhat older than the films obvious target audience (Late teen/Early twenties) So it wasn't with any degree of high expectation that I sat down to watch this.
And sure enough, to start with it didn't 'grab me', but slowly I began to warm to the characters and their growing predicament. The humor actually started to make me laugh dispite my negative expectations.
OK, a few sceens seemed out of place (The pie sceen for one... surely even an american teen wouldn't be THAT thick/desperate). But the majority of it seemed plausable, and hence amusing. Slipping some nerd a laxative for instance, haven't most people faced with a school theif wrapped ex-lax in an empty Cadburys wrapper and been unsurprized when the person they suspected missed most of that afternoons leasons?
Even the 'twist' where Alyson Hannigans nerdy character turns out to be quite the 'man-eater' on the quiet, brought memorys of similar 'interesting' descoverys in my past.
At last, at least SOME Americans are realising that humor works best if the audience can actualy relate to it.
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