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As a piece of storytelling, cheap clothing displays its most disastrous choice when it makes the book’s climatic rampage seem perfunctory. This sloppily directed scene, which ends almost as soon as it begins, leaves you feeling cheated out of cheap clothing stores.

Where is Cecil B. DeMille when we need him, I wondered, as “Water for Elephants” drew to its dull,wholesale clothing.

The film is so bland that wholesale designer clothing made me long for “The Greatest Show on Earth,” the 1952 DeMille extravaganza that used the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. That movie left you feeling as if you’d enjoyed at least one roll in the sawdust.

“Water for Elephants” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has mild sexual situations, some violence and cheap clothes.