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Logan Lucky - in which child beauty pageants are not played for comedy, but doing yoga is. Some schlub played by Channing Tatum is working in an underground construction site, and his name is Jimmy Logan, and he gets fired because he has a limp, and his daughter wants him to come to her Lil Miss West Virginia pageant rehearsals, but he's kinda busy getting drunk with his brother. His brother is Adam Driver, aka Clyde, who has a fake hand and is a total weirdo. So, they also have a sister who does hair and drives fast. The point is, it takes the plot a while to get going, and by then Jimmy has enlisted a group of rogue idiots to help him with his plan to steal money from the pneumatic tubes under the stadium he's been working under. For the plan, his one armed brother goes to prison, and breaks out with blonde numbskull Daniel Craig, and the rest of the prisoners do a fake riot to cover their absence. Its a small jail. So, they break into the tubes while a very famous race is happening above them, and I could not care less about it, but the movie does take time to set up a Seth MacFarlane character as ineffective comic relief. This dummy has an argument with one of his drivers, who the movie takes time to show eats sashimi and does yoga, and there's a subplot of an energy drink causing him to crash. Its fucking stupid. Anyway, the robbery works, but Jimmy returns a lot of the money to quell suspicions in the neighborhood. For the emotional climax, Jimmy shows up at the last minute to his daughter's pageant, where she literally throws aside her umbrella prop, and forgoes singing Rihanna to instead sing her daddy's favorite song, Country Roads, which is a good and magical song, and it WINS HER THE PAGEANT. Great. Everyone gets some money, I guess they kind of deserved it, and the FBI never gets them. I didn't want to see it because I thought it was gonna be a bunch of redneck nonsense, and it kinda was.

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