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Verdict: A throwaway comedy with gay jokes and more barfing than necessary.

Details: Starring Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell and Dylan McDermott. Rated PG-13 for sex-related situations and profanity. 1 hour, 38 minutes.

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Review: When a 1999 comedy comes at you with swing dancing as if it's a newly rediscovered craze, you know it's going to be a night of cheap funny business.

And that's exactly what "Three to Tango" is: a perfectly pleasant extended sitcom trumped up with TV stars and begging for belly laughs.

Matthew Perry ("Friends") headlines this mostly slapstick, throwaway love story about Oscar Novack, a heterosexual Chicago architect who everybody thinks is gay. Dylan McDermott ("The Practice"), who plays conniving entrepreneur Charles Newman, sure thinks he is. And eventually, so does Newman's mistress Amy Post, a glass artist portrayed by Neve Campbell ("Party of Five").

Evil-eyed Newman's big idea is to get goofy Oscar to watch sweet Amy for him. After all, what threat can Oscar be? Ha ha ha.

The comedy is mostly a long series of physical jokes: spastic running, tripping over coat trees, accidental pokes in the crotch and just plain barfing.

Perry is in fine form here — especially for fans of "Friends." After all, his Oscar is really just the actor playing Chandler with Julius Caesar hair.

— Bob Longino, Cox News Service

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