1.   And it will help avoid the sometimes comic scene of people fumbling through their jackets and bags thinking the ringing phone is their own.

2.   Both possess powerhouse voices, and they play well off one another in the comic scenes in which the outspoken Carrie overpowers the nerdy Enoch.

3.   A comic scene becomes thoughtful as Brian explains why he places his spiritual needs above his physical ones.

4.   Given the usually comic scenes preceding, that realization is a jolt.

5.   In fact, when Murphy tosses in a couple of comic scenes, they seem out of place.

6.   Instead, the movie is primarily a series of comic scenes that show the characters getting under the middle-class skins of selected victims.

7.   Instead of being dispatched by a rhinoceros, Vince is given an ingenious comic final scene.

8.   It is full of supposedly comic scenes that have the manner of specialty acts, being just more local color.

9.   It includes mild profanity, one off-camera sexual encounter and a comic scene featuring a woman in jokey lingerie.

10.   Lloyd learns he has to be mean to survive in the new environment when, in one darkly comic scene, he is trapped in a maimed company elevator.