By the time a gorilla mask becomes involved in helping Tom keep his secret the show has lost its way, unable to identify itself as a dark comedy, a slapstick comedy or a feel-good romantic comedy.

The film was described as a lewd, "feel-good" comedy about a group of friends who had reunited in the city of Fernie and want to "kind of go back to their roots."

In a brightly lighted feel-good comedy like "EdTV," it's O.K. for the jokes from a guy like Ray to be in bad taste.

At the same time we see a lot of more prominent films that are romantic feel-good comedies.

'Sister Act' is the feel-good musical comedy about a lounge singer who pretends to be a nun when hiding from her mob boss.

While comparisons to This Is Spinal Tap are inevitable, critics say this is much more a straightforward feel-good comedy than a satire.

Recent experience in the marketplace shows that the safest bet in Australian film making is an outlandish, feel-good comedy, and so that is what the film industry here is producing.

It was billed as 'a feel-good comedy about a feisty 13-year-old girl with the sass of Cheryl Cole and the punch of a prize fighter'.

He doesn't do impressions (save one excellent Einstein), and he's much more caustic and willing to offend than the star of "Patch Adams" and other feel-good comedies.

Last year, he landed a bit part in a feel-good romantic comedy titled "Saturday Morning," scheduled for release in 2006.