One of the great pleasures of summer flicks is that they aren’t necessarily supposed to have redeeming social value. Designed to mindlessly entertain, they impart no lessons beyond what we, the public, will pay cash money to see. And the North American box office is at an all-time high — the calculators busily tallying up receipts are predicting that domestic totals will reach $4.4 billion by Labor Day.
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