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Don't be fooled! Michael Davis's writing is too sophisticated for the average teenager. There is plenty here for the playful adult to enjoy too. Perhaps more than for the teenagers.

For a good double feature, also check out his film EIGHT DAYS A WEEK.

I HATE "teenage sex comedies" with a passion! But when I found this movie while flipping channels on cable, I immediately had to run out and rent the VHS. This is NOT your normal "teenage sex comedy!" The writing is much too sophisticated, and I would venture to guess many of jokes are even over the heads of your average teenager.

All those critics who haphazardly dumped this one in with the "Porky's genre" really missed the boat.

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? is a well balanced, good time flick.

The action/adventure is balanced very with the comedy, with a little hint of romance tossed in. The story (loosely based on Homer's epic poem ODYSSEY) is very entertaining. The music was outstanding.

I only had two complaints. First, the Coen brothers tried to hard to make this picture "cute" or "off-the-wall." By setting the adventure story in the depression-era south the way they did, they did not have to expend all that effort and energy. The nature of the idea alone could have carried it off by itself.

Second, George Clooney's acting was terrible. He portrayed his role as a charicature as opposed to a character. And that was completely out of step with the whole rest of the movie.

But in the end these complaints are trivial in comparison to the final result which is an overall good time.

Now it is time for me to go out and buy that soundtrack.