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www.washingtonpost.com - : Disney's new picture, ''The Rocketeer,'' is a celebration of bland, all-American averageness that itself manages to be nothing better than average. Set in Los Angeles in 1938, the film presents a simpler, drowsier vision of America, a ''Love Bug'' America, a ''Son of Flubber'' America. Based on the comic book by Dave Stevens (they call it a ''graphic novel'' in the credits), it has a kind of willful innocence; it's as middle-of-the-road as Fred MacMurray's pipe. more...
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