The world needs more cancer comedies. But it may not need more cancer comedies like 50/50 . It’s not that 50/50 is insensitive or dull or unfunny — it sidesteps all those potential flaws with the delicacy of the most precise surgeon. Then again, the picture’s delicacy may be misplaced: Directed by Jonathan Levine (who, in 2008, brought us The Wackness ) and written by Will Reiser, 50/50 never risks offending or shocking us as far as the cancer angle goes, but it does slot in some pretty ho-hum non-cancer-related crudeness wherever it can. When cancer-stricken Adam, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, shaves his head with electric clippers belonging to his best friend, Kyle (Seth Rogen), you don’t have to guess where those clippers have been — the movie tells you.
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