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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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Jennifer Lawrence and the 19-Year-Old in Pretty Woman

The film is a coming of age hybrid that takes all the ickiest elements from like risky business and weird science. Low points include Jennifer Lawrence trying to get the 19-year-old who looks like he's about 12 to have sex with her in the sea before a nude beach fight. At times it feels really kind of like, okay, this is really tonally misjudged. None of the laughs are to do with the central thing. And we can say, the most thought-provoking time is still not thinking? Martin Heidegger could beggar you under the table.

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