![]() But by trying to combine fantasy and romance with goofy humor, globe-trotting adventure and feel-good inspiration, Stiller has made Mitty a mixed bag of clashing tones and facile redemption. ![]() Stiller, who directs and stars in Mitty, has loosely based his film on the story and given it a contemporary setting. Though he hardly ever has ventured out of his native New York, Walter is able to shed his timidity and exchange his imagined heroic fantasies for the real thing, in record time. In Ben Stiller's well-intentioned but insipid re-invention of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (** out of four rated PG opens Wednesday nationwide), he's a shy daydreamer who goes from zero to hero by flitting off to Greenland, Iceland and the Himalayas. ![]() Walter Mitty is an introverted guy with an active fantasy life, according to the classic 1939 short story by James Thurber. ![]()
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