They didn't tell us, but it's all very funny to me.

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"It's a very funny, very well made, mass-market comedy, which is well scripted and has an exotic location, " said Patrick Frater, chief executive of Film Business Asia.

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"It's all very funny and good banter, " he said.

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"Brick" doesn't try to match that force -- it's a parody, after all, and some of it is very funny. (One of the funniest moments involves the underworld kingpin's cheerful mother.) But its arcane slang, which is meant to be mannered, grows mannered in unintended, off-putting ways, and the performances, though amusing, can be painfully short on energy.

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It's creatively staged and also very funny, and avoids getting bogged down in the rather rarefied gentlemen's agreements between the rival offices.

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It's not as if the elements are very funny.

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"I don't think it's very abstract at all, which is very funny, " she says.

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And rapacious as those interest rates seem - it's funny, if you look around the world, very poor people have a way of coping with them.

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And it's a very sort of comedic look at the absurdities of the film business, which is just funny to watch while you're sitting amid said film business.

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