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YOU, ME AND DUPREE Inflicting pain -- both on its characters and on hapless audiences -- seems to be the play of the day as far as this cesspool of a movie is concerned. Owen Wilson plays Dupree, a slacker who's invited to stay with his best friend Carl (Matt Dillon) and Carl's new wife Molly (Kate Hudson). It takes about 10 seconds before he makes himself a nuisance -- stopping up the toilet, masturbating into Carl's socks and nearly setting the house on fire. This torturous comedy serves as the ultimate litmus test when it comes to one's tolerance of Wilson's patented surfer-boy routine: Effective when used in the service of a likable character, it's endlessly irritating when attached to a role as obnoxious as Dupree. A black-comedy specialist like Danny DeVito might have wrung some wicked laughs out of this material; the amateurs in charge here up the unpleasantness but fail to leaven it with any compensating humor. *
OPENS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8:
BROKEN BRIDGES: Toby Keith, Kelly Preston.
THE COVENANT: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan.
HOLLYWOODLAND: Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck.
THE PROTECTOR: Tony Jaa, Nathan Jones.
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