Alongside "Men in Black", there are a handful of fun ones, such as " Gremlins", " Beetlejuice", " Ghostbusters" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure". The modern special effects comedy is one of the toughest hybrid genres to pull off. "R.I.P.D." does its best to stop him dead in his tracks. Images of Jeff Bridges enjoying himself are almost enough to make a movie work. There are several extreme close-ups of him in the midst of some ridiculous action number, his ratty grey hair flying, his eyes huge and ablaze with mirth, the way they were when he floated under the skirts of bowling valkyrie in " The Big Lebowski". He is basically undead Rooster Cogburn from "True Grit" again, cocking his cowboy hat to the side and working wonders with his eyebrows, facial hair, 19th-century mullet and ill-fitting dentures. She is a spin on the prim, sassy office brunette from the Progressive Insurance commercials.
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