Some Extremely Obvious and Incredibly Laboured puns…
23/02/2012
With a title like EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE, how can you resist?
Siobhan Synnot in Scotland on Sunday: ”Extremely self-important and Incredibly tiresome.“
Kate Muir in The Times: “Extremely Irritating and Incredibly Schmaltzy”
Angie Errigo in Empire Magazine: “Extremely long and Incredibly disappointing”
Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: “Extremely contrived and Incredibly preposterous”
Anthony Quinn in The Independent: “Extremely long and in need of a good slap”
And Robbie Collin in The Telegraph sums the whole thing up:
You rather end up wishing Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close would just pipe down and back off.
Read all reviews here.
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