In Tower Heist, Ben Stiller plays Josh, a manager at an upscale New York City highrise. In fact, Tower Heist is shockingly decent even if it fails miserably to be the fun yet intelligent caper it could have been. Yet it is also surprising in its ability to excite and entertain, and while it sometimes gets its stupid humor wrong, it more often gets it right. Tower Heist is an exceedingly stupid and shallow film, turning itself into an instant disappointment simply by treating a dire current situation with such disregard for any sense of depth. Any guesses regarding into which camp Tower Heist falls?

In a current national climate that sees the #occupy hashtag used equally to organize political/social demonstrations and make sex and poop jokes, there are two ways for a film to address the collapse of big banks and the rampant corruption and general idiocy in Wall Street: engage in intelligent discourse and present a balanced look at the topic or use it as a platform to make jokes about vaginas and racial stereotypes.

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