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Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey’s prankish body count.

“It remains as outrageously prankish, juvenile, and derisive as ever,” writes David Denby in the New Yorker magazine’s blog.

It also suited Scott’s shooting style: long takes, not a lot of notes, multiple cameras and a prankish sense of humor.

Workplaces, theater marquees, pillows, municipal services: everything starts to absorb their prankish tendencies until the ending sequence combines it all into a kind of over-the-top, technicolor uneasiness.

Korine has always had a hand in other creative endeavors, which coalesce into something of a unified worldview that mixes an outsider’s love of pop culture, prankish humor and thoughtful artistic explorations.