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You, Me and Dupree

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  • Alternate Character Interpretation: In his review, Roger Ebert criticizes the film for never properly deciding if Dupree is merely an Unlucky Everydude or actually a Manipulative Bastard:
    "For a while, it's almost like "Fatal Attraction" with a blonde best friend instead of an adulterous lover. The movie plays with our sympathies, alternating between revulsion and compassion for Dupree: Is he really a misunderstood guy, down on his luck, who means well but just hasn't grown up and found himself? Or does he have something of the feckless, sociopathic manipulator in him? For a while we're not sure. The problem, in retrospect, is that the movie isn't either."
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Dupree idolizes since-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. This was before the scandal that he cheated to win by using steroids came out.


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