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(Ro, Pa, NA, AB, LL, V, SS, Ho, M) Romanticism & feel-good moral relativism mixed with light sacrilege -- Christmas is "magic" & depiction of mock manger scene; 1 obscenity, 18 exclamatory profanities, numerous sexual vulgarities, & sexual innuendoes; man killed by accidental shooting (not gory); fornication strongly implied & condoned, & illegitimacy condoned; transvestism & cross-dressing depicted & condoned; and, murder & attempted cover-up excused & rewarded when discovered that victim was closet serial killer.
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The off-beat and bizarre dark-comedy MIXED NUTS stars Steve Martin and a host of mixed-up characters with mixed-up lives surrounding a suicide hotline service in Venice Beach called “Lifesavers,” where the inept but deeply caring staff needs more help than the desperate callers. Martin plays Philip, the awkward head of Lifesavers who believes his business is helping people, when it is he and his business that really need the help.
MIXED NUTS is a mixed bag of ill-fitting and odd elements. Good acting performances and flashes of humor, at times intense but short-lived and infrequent, are outweighed by the unsettlingly dark comedy, the depressing lives of the characters and the movie’s empty message of “magic” at Christmas time. Christmas is a time of joy, sharing with family and celebration of the birth of the Christ-child. This movie’s answer to the world’s unhappiness, and the disillusioned lives of the characters, is money (in the form of a reward for accidentally killing a local serial killer) and “magic.” Granted, the “magic” in MIXED NUTS is meant to symbolize “love,” but when the entire story up to this point has condoned illegitimacy, sexual immorality, obscenity, profanity, sexual vulgarity, borderline blasphemy, dishonesty, murder, and morally relativistic theology … what’s love got to do with it?
