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It’s also a fabulous extended joke of a movie — the apotheosis of Anderson’s penchant for phallic gaggery — edging toward a climactic shot of, well, earned notoriety.

Tumescence and the usual tee-hee-hee gaggery.

It’s a mildly funny scene, partly because of its light physical comedy and sight gaggery, although also because Mr. Nolte, his signature growl now often at sepulchral depths, has been doing a fair impression of a wild beast for years.

The desperation allows “Horrible Bosses” to graze ever so lightly against some unpleasant social realities and to find a glimmer of class consciousness in an avalanche of crude gaggery.

But it's the Did-I-just-see-what-I-think-I-saw gonadal gaggery that has Hollywood thinking Mary 2.