‘The Do-Deca-Pentathalon’: Oh, brother
Boys will be boys. Always.
Testosterone may not confer eternal youth on the male of the species, but it does enforce perpetual juvenile traits that can never truly be bred out of men.
These come to the fore in Jay and Mark Duplass’ “The Do-Deca-Pentathalon.” A shaggy, basic tale of fraternal jealousy writ large, “DDP” is funny if not deep, an amiable, sometimes aggressively funny film that occasionally dawdles. Yet there are obviously funny people at work here, who understand the fine line between hysteria and hysterical. (More…)


