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This was a good movie. I saw it at a special premiere screening for academy members only, in Burbank. The cast did a good job and so did the director. My favourite part of the movie was the soundtrack which is really, really good! I always enjoy movies where the actors actually sing the songs themselves (not just in musicals but actors in films such as Walk the Line, which is an amazing film). Music is obviously a very big part of this movie and carries it for the most part but when you consider the movie as a whole it feels a bit lacking in the story department. All of the performances are good and like I said they sing their own songs themselves and do it well. A solid effort.

Community is a fantastic comedy series. As far as recent comedy shows I think it ranks right up there with Arrested Development as one of the best modern comedy shows and even should be considered among the best comedy TV series of all time. Not saying it's at the very top but it does deserve consideration. A lot of people --- mostly older people --- will not get the kind of humor that is offered in this show. It's very off beat and surreal and introspective. The comedy mostly comes from the characters. Jeff Winger who is going back to an awful community college to re-earn his law degree after his employers found out that he didn't actually earn one in the first place and he was disbarred. The hippie chick Brita who is Jeff's romantic interest and who is into every vegan/peace/environmental/feminist cause that comes her way. Super pressured to succeed innocent girl Annie. The two wackiest characters of all are a football star in high school (same school as Annie) who isn't the brightest bulb in the box and a wannabe filmmaker named Ahmed who is constantly turning their everyday adventures into TV shows, often narrating them or taping them for his bizarre film class projects. An older super sweet Christian divorcée who tries to keep everyone together and everything harmonious, and Chevy Chase is back in his old hilarious form in a new role, as a full of himself, totally out of touch and inappropriately racist/sexist/elitist, pompous heir to a napkin fortune. The characters around them like the Dean and their Asian-American Spanish teacher are also great. Check this show out and you might not get it but if you do you will probably be immediately hooked like we were!

Con is a terrible show. Why are they running it again? When I came on here to complain about it I figured it was just a bad new show and now I find out that it was on in like 2005? Maybe that helps explain why it seems old and unpolished but why on earth are they rerunning this again when judging by how bad the show obviously is and all the negative comments and votes here people obviously didn't like it so why are they rerunning this again? they should bring back new episodes or reruns of flight of the conchords or something else instead, or old kids in the hall or Monty python or sctv, comedy channel here in Canada just can't seem to get it together, all their shows suck.