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Shady’s adenoidal whine is nowhere to be found on this record, replaced with a sinister, very adult scowl.

As Miss Adelaide, Wallace avoids caricature, coupling robust comedy with the sense of an aching heart and bringing her roof-raising vocals to her character’s famously adenoidal “Lament.”

He also speaks with an adenoidal whine and scrambles about with feverish agility that evolves into a kind of superpower after he and Tomona meet.

That adenoidal falsetto — courtesy of the comic performer Jenny Slate — is a lot.

Cindy Wilson from the B-52’s sings a little flat, and that adenoidal, raw beauty is a huge part of her appeal as a singer.