Say what you will about recent "hard-R" comedies, few mainstream films in recent years can compete with "The Ice Harvest" for sheer sleaze. Set in a Wichita, Kan., underworld, the movie spends most of its time in dour strip clubs with such names as the Sweet Cage and Tease-O-Rama; every one of its characters is in the grip of one serious vice, if not a handful. [...] where "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and company had ample humor to carry viewers along, "Harvest" (despite coming from comedy vet Harold Ramis) has only a little -- not nearly enough to suggest that a wide audience will take to it.

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