Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach) Rating: 3.5 The funniest film I've seen this year, hands down. It's not perfect; some of the jokes fall flat, one character (Skippy, if memory serves) didn't seem to belong in this film, and the conclusion is borrowed from MANHATTAN (though, be fair, it worked again here). But these are quibbles; I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. If you hated it, and (not "or") you loved CLERKS or MALLRATS, stay the hell away from me. I mean it. We will not get along.