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The action-comedy "Keeping Up With the Joneses" takes a solid premise and fritters it away by giving too much attention to star Zach Galifianakis.

Jeff (Galifianakis) and Karen (Isla Fisher) notice something new in their suburban Atlanta culdesac: A couple, Tim (Jon Hamm) and Natalie (Gal Gadot), move in a few doors away. Karen becomes suspicious of this too-perfect pair for what turns out to be a good reason — they are spies who soon embroil her and Jeff in a case of arms dealing at the defense contractor where Jeff works.

Director Greg Mottola ("Superbad") has plenty to work with, in a script (by Michael LeSieur) that has Hamm underplaying nicely and lets Gadot pair well with Fisher and reveal some comic chops under the Wonder Woman curves. The problem is that the overly manic Galifianakis is miscast as the milquetoast suburbanite, and Mottola can't rein in his star's over-the-top performance.

'Keeping Up With the Joneses'

Opens Friday, Oct. 21, at theaters everywhere; rated PG-13 for sexual content, action/violence and brief strong language; 101 minutes.