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The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

Not the comic strip
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  July 19, 2006
1.5 1.5 Stars
Eric Orner, creator of the underground comic strip on which this film is based, has said that he’s always envisioned the strip — which debuted in Boston’s Bay Windows in 1989 and has since spread to more than 100 newsweeklies and publications — as an animated sit-com. After seeing the live-action feature, I’m inclined to agree. George Bamber’s take on the hapless love life of our 27-year-old hero (the straight-in-real-life and over-campy Daniel Letterle) is slapsticky and shallow, fine for 23 minutes of sit-com but wearing thin over an hour and a half, as Ethan dates a just-out baseball player (who wants him to wear a catcher’s mask during sex) and a lusty, self-obsessed teenager named Punch (Dean Shelton) and gets intertwined with his ex-beau. It’s short on romance and comedy and, unlike the comic strip, one-dimensional.
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