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Time-slice photography lets a virtual camera poke around in otherwise still images of explosions and gun battles cool, in a Discovery Channel sort of way, but whatever.

It's simply too generic at heart to justify director Schwentke's delirious, sidewinding, arcing, snap-zooming and whip-panning anti-gravity camerawork. 'R.I.P.D.' is mostly loud and graceless, despite some arresting hyperbolic visuals that deserve an action film of actual soul and purpose. The closest thing to a masterpiece of the form is ' Kung Fu Hustle', in which Stephen Chow applied Tex Avery cartoon physics to gangster set pieces the same way Buster Keaton deployed steam locomotives in 'The General', with a connection to story, character, setup and punchline that leavens and propels rather than pummels and overwhelms. At the bottom of the barrel are things like ' Baby Geniuses' 'Little Man' and 'Nothing But Trouble', a Dan Akroyd/ Chevy Chase horror-comedy better remembered for its Digital Underground soundtrack hit than its latex mutants and rotting flesh.

The pleasantly mediocre ones include ' The Mask', ' Jumanji', ' The Addams Family' (again by Sonnenfeld) and 'Pirates of the Carribean'. Alongside 'Men in Black', there are a handful of fun ones, such as ' Gremlins', ' Beetlejuice', ' Ghostbusters' and 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure'. The modern special effects comedy is one of the toughest hybrid genres to pull off. 'R.I.P.D.' does its best to stop him dead in his tracks.

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Images of Jeff Bridges enjoying himself are almost enough to make a movie work. There are several extreme close-ups of him in the midst of some ridiculous action number, his ratty grey hair flying, his eyes huge and ablaze with mirth, the way they were when he floated under the skirts of bowling valkyrie in ' The Big Lebowski'. He is basically undead Rooster Cogburn from 'True Grit' again, cocking his cowboy hat to the side and working wonders with his eyebrows, facial hair, 19th-century mullet and ill-fitting dentures. She is a spin on the prim, sassy office brunette from the Progressive Insurance commercials.