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Catch and release: ‘Salmon Fishing’ is harmless, flavorless

By Wesley Morris

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 09, 2012

** Salmon Fishing in the Yemen For anyone who wishes the movies could be more like 1985 or 1958, there’s Lasse Hallström, the director of “Chocolat.’’ Here he gives us dour Ewan McGregor and punchy Emily Blunt supervising the transfer of fish to Yemen for the amusement of a sheik. Rather wanly, the movie is about the big vat of “I think you’re swell’’ they fall into. It couldn’t be more harmless or more dull. (107 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)

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