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The story goes that when screenwriter Shane Black was coming up in Hollywood 15 years ago, he and his housemates used to throw bashes that regularly devolved into precise re-creations of classic fight scenes from Hong Kong action movies on their front lawn.His directorial debut "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" takes a similar approach to the hard-boiled detective genre: It's a merry deconstructive delight and easily the best party in town.It's also a surprisingly confident comeback for Black -- the kid who made millions penning boom-boom buddy films like "Lethal Weapon" in the late 1980s -- and a blazing return to form for both Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is such a good time that you may not care if it's less than the sum of its fabulously witty parts.
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