Next Halloween, will we be a safe enough distance away to wear gross-out costumes again?
What's familiar about the film is the grunge concatenation of firepower, body count and gross-out abuse of all-too-tender flesh.
Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), king of the gross-out comedies, who wants to show he's more than the sum of his belches.
He'll share broad details about the process with customers but likes to keep some mystery to the process and steer clear of the gross-out factor.
All this is in the tradition of Judd Apatow, whose films like "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" melded gross-out humor with emotional and moral themes.
The film, which is a series of gross-out comedy skits from different directors, boasts an ensemble cast that includes Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet and Emma Stone.
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The hilarious film offers a younger skew on what must be labeled the Apatow house brand of touchy-feely sex comedy -- in other words, more extreme profanity and juvenile gross-out gags.
The movie, which also stars Stiller as struggling action star Tugg Speedman and Jack Black as gross-out king Jeff Portnoy, features some testy altercations between Downey's Lazarus and Jackson's Chino.
Mockery of action heroes, Method actors and gross-out comedians?
Yes, the web-video channel that seemed to offer an unlimited range of gross-out, poorly thought-out, and should-be-tossed-out content this week shared in real-time, not on recorded video with perhaps millions of people a profoundly important exercise in American democracy.
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The film was always going to be predictable (that is part of its appeal), yet it feels too panicky to be stylish, and surprisingly tasteless: who could have foreseen that its humor would rely on a gastric gross-out?
The occasional piercing got in the way, and there was a gross-out or two when eager consumers forgot to change screens, but it was a big step forward from last year's Tongueii, which failed to account for static electricity, fusion and two of Fermi's laws.
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But add in critically acclaimed box-office winners The Wedding Crashers and The 40-Year-Old Virgin and figure that one or two deserving underdogs such as The Squid and the Whale or the highbrow gross-out documentary The Aristocrats sneak in, and you've got a category worth watching.
In other countries, value-added taxes are taken out of gross box-office receipts, before the money is divided between studios and theaters.
Palladium saw gross shorts fall by 58% since mid-August, but she pointed out that while platinum gross longs increased 12%, palladium gross longs have fallen by 5%.
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Euro-zone gross-domestic-product data showed a contraction in the fourth quarter of 2011 and nine out of the euro bloc's 17 member states posted a fall.
The latter two dot.coms are already profitable because they have staked out territory with Microsoft-type gross margins.
The political clout of farm states in an election year led to this gross subsidy-fest, with lawmakers falling over themselves to dole out cash to farmers.
As such, in order to make profits, each Star Wars film will theoretically have to gross towards the upper-ends of what constitutes a global blockbuster each time out.
The parliamentary crisis was precipitated by one of Mr Gross's centre-left coalition partners, the Christian Democrats, who walked out in protest against his financial affairs.
To do the phase-out on Form 8815, Suzy first needs to calculate modified adjusted gross income.
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The impact on gross national product or GNP - a measure that includes flows of investment income in and out of the country - would be far less.
The 27-year-old former Aston Villa midfielder had fallen out of favor under new coach Christian Gross.
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The newly extended enhanced incentive allows a non-farmer donor to use a conservation donation deduction to wipe out 50% of his gross income in any year, up from the normal 30% that is a permanent part of the law.
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Central bankers like Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi will try to inflate their way out of a low-return environment, a strategy that should kill long-term bonds Gross says.
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"Recovery high, the real gift that it gives to the kids is the soft landing when they come out of rehab or a longer-term facility like Lucy was in, " said Tony Gross, Lucy's father.
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Managed-money accounts cut 1, 431 gross longs and added 4, 072 gross shorts, meaning that speculators closed out bullish positions and opened bearish ones.
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Managed-money accounts cut 7, 481 gross longs and added 7, 068 gross shorts, meaning that speculators closed out bullish positions and opened bearish ones.
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