"Well, thanks."
"It's not a compliment."
"I know."
The premise of Identity Thief is promising, but as a comedy it falls rather flat. Whilst not quite plumbing the depths of recent Adam Sandler movies, this overlong road-trip has a number of good set-ups but the script frequently fails to catch fire. Jason Bateman does this beige everyman routine effortlessly, and Melissa McCarthy shows occasionally that she is a wonderful actress when she dials it down a notch, but here she has to spend a lot of time desperately grasping for laughs with - for the most part - a very unsympathetic character. What should have been a sprightly caper is in actuality quite a disappointing plod.
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