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Leatherheads

Let’s see—George Clooney starring and directing in a period piece comedy about the game of football in the 1920s, right before it became legitimate. In other words, a comedy about the death of football. Nice, nice. I’m with you so far. Clooney’s had a spotless record in the director’s chair, and in general I like his style. Jim from “The Office”is also in it and he’s pretty likable too. Clooney’s the old guard football legend and Jim from “The Office”is the new blood brought in to shake things up.

But the upper decker gets left in the toilet known as Leatherheads when Renee Zellweger’s mangy face shows up as a fledgling journalist that Clooney and Jim from “The Office”fight over. Zelleweger always looks like she got shot in the ass with a .22 right before she ate a lemon and got punched in the face by a Truman Capote impersonator. She married Kenny Chesney for crissakes! A grown man named Kenny! A country music star who doesn’t believe in sleeves. And she’s from Texas and not even Austin. I could get past it if she was from Austin, but she’s not.

How and why the hell could two guys fight over Renee Zellweger? I could see fighting another guy over the last Mountain Dew, leftover pizza, the remote control before “American Idol,” jury duty, a set of bald tires, Karl Malden’s nose, lavender gum, black licorice, generic absinthe, ANYTHING but Renee Zellweger. Casting Zellweger as a woman to be fought over is like sticking Amy Winehouse in a D.A.R.E commercial.

Obvious eyesore aside, it looks like Clooney might be trying to get back to the quick, sharp and witty style of slapstick comedy from the Golden Age of Hollywood with Leatherheads. And that’s cool, but the last time Clooney was in a movie that attempted to hearken back to yesteryear we ended up with The Good German. If it was called The Mediocre German or even The Lackluster German I wouldn’t have been so disappointed.

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