David Wain's ironic comedy wanes in Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass
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Just as punks need pop to spit at, deadpan send-ups need clear antagonists to riff on, no matter how much affection quietly fuels the takedowns. For director David Wain, those targets can be as goofily specific as the cheap, shaggy, summer camp films that seduced early ’80s channel-flippers with the promise of late-night titillation, or as ambitiously broad as the architecture of the romantic comedy genre. Without such clear inspirations, Wain’s State–and-Stella sense of humor
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