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I don't envy a filmmaker that casts a superstar in their project. These demi-gods are capable of keeping a dud afloat, but they come with heavy baggage. The baggage of Nostalgia (a word I seem to have used a lot in my recent reviews - take it as a sign of the times). Superstars cannot be seen as having aged or having aches. They are frozen in time, doomed to always call back to their old tricks, or else their fans will scream and cut off the legs from under the throne they sit on.

At least, this was my impression of the superstar film - a genre I've mostly steered clear of, in f....