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A star-studded and widely-panned rom-com that segued into $6 billion of superhero success fails to respect personal streaming space

Talk about a step up.

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A decade and a half ago, the prospect of Joe and Anthony Russo ranking among the highest-grossing directors in the history of cinema would have seemed every bit as preposterous as it was far-fetched, but it would be an understatement to say the siblings have done pretty well for themselves since You, Me, and Dupree took a pasting from critics.

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The star-studded rom-com that marked the Russo’s second feature – and first since Welcome to Collinwood four years previously – was a sizeable hit at the box office after netting over $150 million, but a 20 percent Rotten Tomatoes score was far lower than a caper featuring Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, Seth Rogen, Michael Douglas, and Bill Hader among its ensemble should be landing.

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After that, the Russos didn’t helm another movie for eight years, which just so happened to be Captain America: The Winter Soldier, after Kevin Feige recruited the Community veterans and caused much consternation on the internet that “the Dupree guys” were tackling the star-spangled superhero.

From there, they became the first – and so far only – filmmakers to tackle four MCU blockbusters, with their efforts on Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Endgame combining to bring in more than $6 billion in ticket sales. It’s a hell of a story, one that might even leave first-time viewers of You, Me, and Dupree shocked when they discover who made it.

There seems to be a lot of them, anyway, seeing as FlixPatrol has outed the turgid waste of time as one of the most popular movies on Rakuten heading into the weekend.