Simon Sez - Simon never says "Simon Says"

Published: Jan. 30, 2018, 12:31 a.m.

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Dennis Rodman returns in the form of a bumble-bee to plant the foundation of the XXX squad, by making Dane Cook the CEO. Its truly in the list of worst action movies ever made and could be the gold standard for enjoyably dumb action movies...if it wasn\'t for Dane Cook.

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Dane Cook blows. You know this, so we aren\'t going to devote time here to review his schtick - what will do instead is warn you that he is truly at his least formed here, with the most "punch me" act ever captured on celluloid. He\'s worse than Jar Jar. 

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Now the good - it\'s WAY OVER THE TOP in the action department. Imagine Jackie Chan kung-fu and stunts but performed on screen by people who should be hot dog vendors. Then tack all that on top of Pumaman level of rear projection effects. It\'s outlandishly fun when you aren\'t staring down the barrel of an unloaded Dane Cook. He blocks your vision from the good.

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Then there is the plot of the film - an oblivious double kidnapping pit the fathers of said kids into a series of scheduling conflicts and interference by Simon\'s (Rodman) team who have no clue what is even going on. Somehow there is a colonel, a laser that can\'t work, a villain who may be the reincarnation of Jerry Lewis and thinks the Microsoft Office Paper Clip is the bomb.

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So imagine a XXX/Pumaman mashup with no talent, yes less talent than Pumaman. It\'s so close to brilliance, but sadly in the end the "comedy" troupe here drops it down by three stars to just a barely do.

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