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After the positively dismal sixth season, Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season roars back into form with one of the series’ strongest seasons. At the time of production, the makers of Magnum P.I. thought this season would be the very last one, and it’s obvious the writers, cast and crew made an effort to go out with a bang — literally. I’m not spoiling any surprises by recounting it here (after all, there was another season to follow), but at the end of Season Seven, Thomas Magnum dies from an assassin’s bullet. In the final episode, appearing as a ghost, he ties up loose ends among his family and friends, and walks off into the clouds (a cheesy moment in an otherwise excellent season). Numerous episodes from Season Seven are all-time fan favorites, with Tom Selleck and company putting to rest the bad memories from weaker Seasons Five and Six.
By the start of the 1986-1987 season, the once-powerful Magnum P.I. ratings machine had already fallen far from the Nielsen Top Thirty. The producers, Tom Selleck being one of them, decided to give the series a final send-off worthy of earlier seasons, with the Magnum character maturing and coming to terms with his romantic past, his war-time experiences, and with the memory of his dead father. Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season is a remarkably contemplative season (while still packing a lot of action and laughs), with the Magnum character undergoing significant emotional experiences. Age is certainly a factor in this seventh season. Despite the wish of many viewers to basically keep Magnum an overgrown adolescent, the producers put Thomas (and us) on edge by constantly referring back to Thomas’ upcoming fortieth birthday. Playing into this theme, Magnum is even shown failing in physical endeavors (his leg goes out during running exercises; he fails to outrun assassins in the season’s final episode), as well as doubting his ability to pull in the chicks like he used to in his salad days.
Magnum’s wartime experiences are again fodder for good drama, with the terrific Solo Flight episode expertly blending in the meditative themes that run through this season. Magnum, trapped under plane wreckage on top of a mountain and delirious from an insect bite (a mountain he wanted to climb alone, in order to think through his life), recounts not only his brutal war memories (there’s a truly horrific flashback to Magnum and his friends in cages, being tortured by the North Vietnamese), but also his deeply sad, mournful feelings about his father, who died in the Korean War. As well, recollections of treachery concerning his wartime friend Philippe “La Bulle” Trusseau (Robert Loggia) haunt unrelated cases, such as Death and Taxes, an exciting episode where a psychotic murderer of prostitutes tries to impress Thomas with his skills.
Thomas’ romantic past is also a source of pain for Thomas. His relationship with his ex-wife Michelle (Marta DuBois) is again revisited here, with Thomas coming to the painful realization that her child, supposedly by her current husband, is most probably Thomas’ and that he won’t ever be able to raise her as his own. Indeed, during the final episode, Thomas, now in limbo after being shot and killed, goes about fixing Michelle’s romance with John Beck, while saying goodbye to his little girl. As well, Thomas almost gets married again this season, to Cynthia Farrell (Dana Delaney). Thomas, packed and ready at LAX airport to take Cynthia back to Hawaii, is dumped by Farrell - another indication of the producers’ efforts to round out the Magnum character, and further distance him from the established image of the playboy, sure-shot scorer with women.
Despite all this morose sturm und drang, Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season still has time for plenty of Magnum hijinks, with fun episodes sprinkled throughout the season. Top of that list is one of the series’ funniest episodes, Paper War, where Magnum and Higgins engage in a rapidly escalating series of practical jokes that wind up having deadly consequences for both of them. There’s a nice edge of meanness to both characters here; they’re like deadly little boys who aren’t screwing around, even though they’re just playing practical jokes. And even though the episode is played mostly for laughs, there’s a surprisingly resonant ending, where Thomas and Higgins, stuck together in an elevator, get down to some truths about each other that they may have wished stayed hidden. Murder By Night is a nicely realized, snappy film noir piece - with Selleck looking perfect in period dress. And for the first time, Murder, She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher teams up with Thomas for a energetic two-part crossover, Novel Connection, with the Murder, She Wrote follow-up Magnum on Ice included as a bonus episode. Angela Lansbury seems to enjoy mixing it up with Selleck very much; they’re an inspired team with Jessica Fletcher providing the deductive reasoning (versus Magnum’s frequent hunches), and Thomas providing the brawn.
As the season draws to a close, the mood becomes darker again, with a sensational turn by Frank Sinatra (that’s right, the Frank Sinatra, pallie) in Laura, showing again what a fine, intuitive actor he was as he portrays a tortured retired cop trying to track down the molester/killer of his granddaughter. And of course, there’s the season finale, Limbo, which was intended to be the series finale. I remember when this final episode aired; CBS took a lot of flak from dedicated fans of the show, and through a strenuous letter-writing campaign (as well as a slight bump in the ratings), the series was brought back for one final go-around. Knowing that, it makes Limbo seem rather quaint (not helped by the cloud walk-out by Thomas), but emotionally, it fits in perfectly with where the producers of the series were taking the Magnum character in Season Seven. Magnum, dying by the sword so to speak, and limited by his limbo status in not being able to directly speak to or be seen by his loved ones, gently guides them to accepting his death, as he accepts this grim fact himself. The ghostly guide is a stock plot convention to be sure, but Selleck’s underplayed emotion and the sensitive script impart a sense of passing that’s surprising considering we’re talking about a fictional TV detective. Off hand, I don’t recall any episodes specifically from Season Eight, but Limbo indeed is a fitting “final” tribute to one of the most iconic television detectives of the 1980s.
Here are the 21, unified hour episodes of the five-disc belt set, Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season, as described on the tri-wrinkle slipcase:
DISC ONE:
L.A.
Magnum sees the not-so-glamorous side of Hollywood when he looks into the death of a young comedienne with the help of an attractive entertainment lawyer.
One Picture is Worth
Art proves to be a very expressive medium when magnum protects a deaf painter from the killer who knows she witnessed his last crime.
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Straight and Narrow
Nothing comes between sisters when a former call girl hires a reluctant Magnum to find her missing sibling.
A.A. P.I.
It’s time for celebrations and sleuthing when a murder occurs as Magnum is receiving the Local P.I. of the Year Award.
DISC TWO:
Death and Taxes
A crazed killer with unnerving information on Magnum’s time in Vietnam communicates his fiendish plans through nursery rhymes.
Little Girl Who
Magnum’s fatherly instincts kick in when his ex-wife goes on the run and leaves him in charge of her little girl.
Paper War
It’s the ultimate battle of wills when a feuding Magnum and Higgins are trapped in a building elevator that is set to be demolished.
Novel Connection
It’s a case of he said-she said when Magnum must deal with Murder, She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher after an attempt is made on the life of one of Robin Master’s guests. (The concluding Murder, She Wrote episode, Magnum on Ice, is included here).
DISC THREE:
Kapu
When a beautiful island girl witnesses a murder, Magnum finds himself protecting her and the old native ways of Forbidden Island as the killers try to catch up to them.
Missing Melody
T.C.’s past comes to haunt him when his daughter is kidnapped, and he attempts to sell his helicopter to raise the ransom.
Death of the Flowers
After a devastating fight at a florist, suspicion blooms in both Carol and Rick as they question whether their respective mentors may be involved in illegal affairs.
Autumn Warrior
It’s survival of the fittest when Higgins takes a group of boys from prison camp for a weekend outdoors and somebody tries to sabotage the experience.
Murder by Night
Everything old is new again when Magnum takes on a 1940s mystery in this film-noir trip to the past.
DISC FOUR:
On the Fly
A case of mistaken identity has Magnum fighting back against two rival Mexican crime families who both want him dead.
Solo Flight
Alone on a mountaintop, Magnum begins to question his own judgment in a case and is almost killed while lost in reflection on his past.
Forty
With the big 4-0 looming around the corner, Magnum is concerned that the loss of his lucky $2 bill will hinder him in the investigation of a top-secret arms smuggling case.
Laura
Revenge is bittersweet when Magnum helps a retired New York police officer chase the two men who murdered his granddaughter.
DISC FIVE:
Out of Sync
The path of true love doesn’t run smoothly when Magnum’s plans with his on-again, off-again fiancée are ruined by an actress who wants his help in catching a porn director.
The Aunt Who Came to Dinner
Family matters command attention when Magnum’s beloved Aunt Phoebe is convinced she’s being followed by someone who wants to kill her.
The People vs. Orville Wright
Rick just can’t seem to catch a lucky break when he is arrested for the murder of a hit man contracted to kill Icepick.
Limbo
When Magnum is trapped in a state between life and death, he struggles to save his ex-wife and break through to his friends before it is too late.
The DVD:
The Video:
The full frame, 1.33:1 transfers for Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season, are all over the place. Some episodes look bright and clear, while others, such as One Picture is Worth, look grainy and washed out. A decidedly mixed bag.
The Audio:
The Dolby Digital English 2.0 mono soundtrack accurately reflects the original television presentation. English subtitles and close-captions are available.
The Extras:
Two bonus featurettes are included here in the Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season disc set. First, a six minute Inside the Ultimate Crossover is included, with Angela Lansbury and other members of the production crew discussing the Magnum/Murder, She Wrote crossover episodes. And America’s Top Sleuths, a thirty-minute promo reel made by Universal/NBC, is included (I believe this was already included on a previous Murder, She Wrote or Magnum set).
Final Thoughts:
Stronger than ever, Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season is a socko return to form for the primo 1980’s detective series. Surprisingly reflective and downbeat at times, this intended final season of the series has a number of fan favorites, including the highly-charged final episode, where a deceased Magnum strolls out among the clouds (don’t worry; he’ll be back for Season Eight). There are still a lot of laughs and thrills in this contemplative season, taking Magnum through an emotional rollercoaster ride while serving up plenty of gun play and Magnum ’stache wriggling. One of the best seasons of the series. I highly recommend Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season.
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Filmed in “Hypnovision.”
In the prologue, psychologist Emile Franchel says that the only ones
who can’t be hypnotized are imbeciles, idiots, and fools. “Horrors” plays
as a lurid odditity, an intriguing horror tale that anticipated Michael
Powell’s more accomplished “Peeping Tom.”
The acting is stiff and the story relies on shocks to tell its Sadean
tale about a successful crime writer who creates a reign of terror in London
so he could write about it to show how doubly clever he is. The murders
are of a perversely sexual nature and the shocks come by way of a series
of particularly gruesome murders.
In the opening scene, an attractive lady receives a parcel from an
unknown admirer. When she examines the binocular gift, her eyeballs are
gouged as two steel spike needles were released by a spring attached to
the lens when she held it up for viewing. Scotland Yard Superintendent
Graham (Keen) is baffled by this, the third brutal murder in the last two
weeks. There seems to be a madman on the loose in London, whose crimes
have no apparent motive. Waltzing in to the superintendent’s office to
gloat about the police incompetency in getting the killer is popular crime
writer Edmond Bancroft (Gough), who writes for a tabloid and is also a
best-selling mystery writer.
The crippled writer has an assistant, Rick (Curnow), whom he hypnotizes
and turns him into a deformed monster to do the killings and all his other
dirty work. When Bancroft’s secret girlfriend Joan (Cunningham), who looks
like Marilyn Monroe, throws a tantrum and dumps him, he has Rick set up
a guillotine over her bed using it to lop her head off.
In the writer’s house he has a secret locked room where he collects
weapons and names his place the black museum after the real one in Scotland
Yard. After every murder the writer is in the habit of visiting his physician,
Dr. Ballan (Anderson), who notices that the publicized murders stress him
out as if he were involved in them. Ballan finally comes to the conclusion
that his patient needs psychological help. Unfortunately he tells this
to Bancroft and for his misplaced trust he gets electrocuted and thrown
into an acid vat. Bancroft uses an elderly woman antique collector (Varley)
to sell him his future murder weapons. When she catches on that he’s the
murderer and blackmails him, he responds by fatally putting a pair of ice
tongs into her throat.
Warning: spoiler to follow in the next paragraph.
Things are beginning to get out of hand for the crime writer, who
reveals himself as a madman to others. When Rick is caught in his black
museum with Angela (Field), a girlfriend he wants to marry and share all
his secrets with, the writer gives Rick another hypnotic treatment and
tells him to take Angela to an amusement park. In the ‘tunnel of love’
Rick’s face turns into a monster and he stabs her to death. When the police
surround him and he sees Bancroft yelling for the police to shoot him,
Rick lunges at his master and stabs him to death.
This one is a must see for horror film fans. It was part of a trio
of perverted horror films released by Anglo-Amalgamated studios, which
included Circus of Horrors and Peeping Tom.
Films liking Word Is Out and The Times of Harvey Tap have done valuable lesbian and gay archaeology, but not anyone so adeptly as this documentary. Mixing up-to-the-minute footage with older material mined from Hollywood newsreel and home movie, it achieves a near-pure balance between historical and partisan perspectives, and sometimes unconsciously hilarious archive footage. Its political science are significant, the life stories touching, warm and funny, and the archive a hog of oneself clog camper than Butlin’s empire.
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Producer/director Korda had mate Hungarian Lajos Biro fashion Wilde’s play for this to some extent turgid screen version, which has imported American star Goddard as a reasonable Mrs Cheveley, the Victorian adventuress whose blackmail bid on politico Williams is stymied by nobleman Wilding’s decisive counter-attack. Lots of applied disguise on display, including costumes by Cecil Beaton and Georges Périnal’s dapper camerawork, but the covering is so reverent towards its source material it’s almost embalmed.
“NASCAR 3D: The IMAX Experience” overcomes that challenge by not only
including an array of drivers, owners and sponsors but also spending ample
time covering the sport’s souvenir booths.
Even more impressive is the new documentary’s ability to deliver a
surprise education in its 48 minutes of flag-waving entertainment. “NASCAR 3D”
doesn’t quite overcome its shameless self-promotion, but the film will satisfy
the Lynyrd Skynyrd set while providing a decent explanation to those who are
baffled by the sport’s popularity.
“NASCAR 3D” wisely chooses a “Dukes of Hazzard” opening, with two old-
timey yahoos — played by real NASCAR drivers Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony
Stewart — on a police-in-pursuit moonshine run. (Merle Haggard is the
obvious choice as a narrator. We get Kiefer Sutherland instead.) It’s a fun
way to put the history of the sport in context and sets the tone for a film
that places an emphasis on the history and technical details surrounding the
cars, drivers and fans.
NASCAR die-hards expecting a Vegas-style 3-D carnival ride may be
disappointed, but parents who consent to give their brood the abbreviated IMAX
experience will be happy to note that the $9.75 tickets also pay for some good
old-fashioned book learning.
The movie covers the people who inhabit pit row, the places where the
cars are made and the things that go into an engine block, using the 3-D
camera work to make readers feel as if they’re in the room when a NASCAR
chariot is born.
At times, the movie’s approach seems staid. Making a NASCAR documentary
with little emphasis on car crashes is like making a boxing documentary that
focuses on clinching. Whether it was an attempt to preserve a PG rating or
just the inability to capture a good crash on expensive IMAX film, there is
only one crash in 3-D — and that visual looks suspiciously as if it was
staged or tinkered with in a special-effects studio. The few remaining crashes
are in boring 2-D video, presented on small picture-in-picture screens that
reveal less than most ESPN SportsCenter highlights.
Thankfully, the rest of the mayhem — including high-speed racing, body
bumping and breakneck skids into pit row — are captured well in 3-D, and
the movie capably includes the sport’s stereotypes: ZZ Top song, check. Hot
chicks, check. Sappy memorial for NASCAR driver who died in crash, check.
“NASCAR 3D” doesn’t come close to passing “Everest” for the pole position
of IMAX perfection, but it’s a solid effort and will probably end up as the
best commercial you’ll see this year.
– Advisory: This film contains a 3-D car crash. — Peter Hartlaub
‘Greendale’ Drama. Written, directed and photographed by Neil Young. (Not
rated. 83 minutes. At Landmark Opera Plaza and Landmark Act 1 & 2, Berkeley.).
“Greendale” was directed for Shakey Pictures by one Bernard Shakey, and
from its wobbly opening shot of cloudy skies, it is shaky. Also grainy and
occasionally out of focus.
Shakey is the nom de cinema of rock auteur Neil Young, and “Greendale” –
also a CD, DVD and stage show — is Young’s “musical novel,” concept album,
rock opera, agitprop polemic, whatchamacallit.
Through 10 stark, lengthy narrative songs, Young and his band Crazy Horse
tell a meandering saga of three generations of a star-crossed Northern
California family, culminating in the emergence of an eco-warrior hippie
goddess called Sun Green.
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There’s a bit of Young in all the characters, but the famously cranky and
media-shy rock veteran clearly identifies most with Grandpa, who fumes at one
point: “It ain’t no honor to be on TV, and it ain’t no duty, either.”
The movie’s heart is in its tragic middle section: In “Leave the Driving,
” a routine traffic pullover turns into the murder of a police officer. In the
subsequent song “Carmichael,” plainspoken officers eulogize the dead cop at
the funeral and his widow curses and reminisces alone at graveside. These
scenes are poignant, even heartbreaking, and Young nearly succeeds as a
multimedia “novelist,” though he goofs things up by inserting a capering red-
clad allegorical devil figure straight out of an ’80s rock video.
Shot by Young on a Super 8 underwater camera, “Greendale” is amateur in
the true sense of the word — plainly, proudly homemade. As “director of
photography,” Young is doggedly literal: When the lyrics mention roosters or
trees, that’s what you’re gonna see onscreen. Locations included Half Moon Bay
and San Francisco, and the images have a textured pointillist beauty, like
faded denim or certain ’70s album covers.
The ragged glory of the music is more eloquent than the visuals, and
Young’s voice — weary, wry, self-mocking by turns — is a marvel. And
though many lines remain in the mind (”Mother Earth has many enemies/ There’s
much work to be done”), the movie doesn’t really add up to the incendiary,
rabble-rousing Great Statement about saving the earth that Young seems to have
intended.
But sitting through “Greendale” in a Dolby-equipped theater, at high
volume with bone-penetrating bass, is an ideal way for Young fans to
experience the rustic grandeur of the master’s latest album, a serious
achievement.
You might even just sit back, close your eyes and watch “Greendale” in
your mind’s eye.
– Advisory: High-volume music and implied violence.
– Joe Brown
Drama. Starring Alison Elliott, Leo Burmester. Directed by Chris Boebel.
Written by Chris and Charles Boebel. (PG. 98 minutes. At the Renaissance Park
in Lafayette.
‘Red Betsy’ Alison Elliott made a splash with “The Spitfire Grill” and
“The Wings of the Dove,” then seemed to vanish. She’s back in the period
drama “Red Betsy,” and she’s the best thing in it. Negotiating the role of a
forward-thinking woman constrained by family demands and era, Elliott elevates
a picture that’s lovely to look at but lacking in dramatic impact.
She plays a rural Wisconsinite named Winifred over a 10-year period,
through marriage, pregnancy, the death of her World War II flyer husband and
an increasingly strained relationship with her father-in-law (Leo Burmester).
The actress embodies both the young woman in love and Winifred’s later
incarnation, a widow and respected schoolteacher. The passage of time and
unrealized dreams show in Elliott’s bearing. The bouncy step becomes solid,
the sly smile turns to tight-lipped containment.
The family farm is a pretty enough place, at least as viewed through the
lens of cinematographer David Tumblety. Suffused with golds and oranges, the
landscape looks warm and inviting. Filmmaker Chris Boebel has visually
captured the vantage point of the father-in-law, who sees no reason anyone
would want to leave the farm.
But Boebel, who wrote the script from a story by his father, Charles,
takes shortcuts where he might have lingered. For several months when her
husband is at war, Winifred stays alone at the farm with the father. Yet there
is no exploration of their interaction during that time. Instead, the film
moves forward to 1949, when the father-in-law’s kindness toward Winifred’s
daughter fills the space between the adults.
His disapproval of Winifred seems based on nothing but bad humor. She is
always respectful toward him, even though she gave up plans to move to Madison
because she promised her husband to look after his father.
The battle between past and present also shows in the father-in-law’s
refusal to install electricity (in 1951), a subplot with kinks in logic. This
same man helped his son build his airplane, the “Red Betsy” of the title. An
aeronautics buff doesn’t seem the kind of fellow to eschew progress.
Burmester makes a good curmudgeon, but he suffers from having to play a
crank without a character arc. His best scenes are with the stalwart Lois
Smith (”Minority Report”) as the wife who can handle the old man. But Smith’s
character dies near the beginning of the movie. If only the father had died
instead of the mother. Smith and Elliott fending for themselves on a farm —
that would have been some movie.
– Advisory: This film contains raw language. — Carla Meyer
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Another stop-me-if-you've-heard-this issue, with offspring Ragsdale emerging from three years of psychotherapy to determine that the vampires he's been persuaded are imaginary genuinely do remain. Having convinced TV horror-demonstration proprietress McDowall that the fanged ones are sneakily in company, Ragsdale confronts the deliciously dangerous Carmen, sister of suave freeloader Chris Sarandon whom they stalked in Part 1. With Carmen's fatal allure substituted for Sarandon's sexually ambiguous amulet, the intriguing homoerotic overtones of the original give crumple to a more blatant equation of hankering and hot pants. What few innovations there are - especially Carmen's spectacular usurpation of McDowall's bestow make an exhibit - go exchange for nothing. Wallace's handling lackes the flair and intelligence that Tom Holland brought to
Fright Night.
NF.
By Prairie Miller
Relish a long, bickering affiliation or a favorite pair of well jaded doused shoes, UK combo filmmaker and nostalgia buff Terence Davies can't seem to fix his disturbing but addictive love/hate relationship with the city of origin that informed his inventiveness as regards better or worse, in his latest ode to Liverpool, Of Time And The City.
The third Davies intimate excursion down memory lane after The Long Day Closes and Distant Voices, Still Lives, this whimsical autobiographical documentary is also graced with the eloquent, at times cranky bordering on bitter narrative commentary by the writer/director, situated somewhere between travelogue and ambivalent urban reverie.
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Favoring a literary subjectivity that tends to soar above an often dismal post WW II inner city terrain, Davies, quoting a gamut of wisdom from Proust to Engels, saturates his industrial mindscapes with contemplations steeped in alternate resentment and regret. And when he bemoans, in quoting from Chekhov that 'The golden moments pass and leave no trace,' we are led on the contrary to understand that this visual history resolves to actually rage against the dying of that particular light. And one in which that trying but noble mass resistance to the paradox of individual extinction and passing time, is distilled in that seemingly meaningless but ever courageous determination as 'humanity gets through another day.'
Of Time And The City, like life, often stumbles along in raw, jarring fashion but with always surprising luminescent moments to share, as the soundtrack incongruously clashes with the snapshot images, then suddenly captivates when settling on a crafted frame that perfectly fuses perception with meaning. And not without the occasional subversive wit that lightens the sobering mood, as when Davies playfully observes of the teeming, exhausted masses of the Liverpool ghettos, 'The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time, and the trouble with being rich is that it takes up everyone else's.'
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3 stars
DVD Bonus Features: Interviews; Featurettes: On The Set With Terence Davies; In The Editing Room With Terence Davies; Highlights; Theatrical Trailers.
Prairie Miller is a multimedia journalist online, in print and on radio. Contact her through NewsBlaze.
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dir
Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
scr
Marc Hyman
with
Bill Murray, Elena Franklin, Chris Elliot, Molly Shannon
voices
Chris Rock, David Hyde Pierce, Laurence Fishburne, William Shatner, Ron Howard, Brandy Norwood, Joel Silver, Kid Reel
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US 10.Aug.01; UK 2.Nov.01
Warners 01/US 1h35
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Mixing burning action with animation, buddy cop comedy with political lampoon, the Farrelly Brothers assess their intimately at a family obscure. Their gross-at liberty sensibilities are intact … as is their uneven approach to storytelling. Frank (Murray) is a solemn boor who will eat virtually anything, which makes his pre-teen daughter (Franklin) worry. Jump to liveliness and we're incarcerated his council, aka The City of Unrestricted, where a white blood cubicle named Jones (voiced by Rock) teams up with a cold capsule (Pierce) to campaign fight a humdrum virus called, erm, Thrax (Fishburne). Meanwhile, the Mayor of Unrestrained (Shatner) is denying all danger in his exploit to unexposed re-election.
The script has just now enough clever joke to keep us chuckling, even if it never scales the heights of outstanding example comedy. Yes, much of it centres in the toilet–vomit, snot, pimples, sweat bullets, rumoured, urine. But there's intelligent stuff as incredibly … and it's densely crowded. Scarcely a minute passes without a visual or word-of-mouth pun. The enlivenment is terrific–prototypical and vibrant, with electrifying power and sharply witty delineation. On the other hand, the existent-engagement segments let the integument down badly–Murray's character is far too slovenly, his daughter too preachy, and his subdue friend too debased (Elliot as almost the same long-haired slob he played
Scary Movie 2
and
Snow Day).
You wish it had switched to animation and on no occasion cut fail surface the core at all!
vulgarity, animated violence
14.Oct.01
R E A D E R R E V I E W S
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