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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mike McCahill

Fist Fight review – teachers' scrap brings fleeting snickers

Flimsy timewaster … Fist Fight.
Flimsy timewaster … Fist Fight. Photograph: AP

Charting the chaos that follows from aggrieved history teacher Ice Cube challenging meek colleague Charlie Day to an after-school ruckus, this fitful timewaster doubles rowdily down on all its flimsy-to-questionable ideas. Someone involved clearly believed there’s still mileage in watching grown men behaving like big kids, and that Day – whose oddball delivery on TV’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia remains a wonder – should be taking on those bland milquetoast roles rejected by Jason Bateman. Fleeting snickers result, but fellow Sunny parolee Richie Keen can’t hold a scene long enough for anybody to find a rhythm, let alone convert a looming backdrop of mass education layoffs into the basis of a socko funfest.

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