European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                This week s films i r i i a i s the Addam family rated pg-13. Comedy. On he anniversary of the Addams family s annual Scance an imposter shows up planning to steal the family treasure. What the party Crasher does t know is what kind of characters the Addams really arc. Anjelica Huston Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd. Beauty and the beat rated g. Family. This animated feature combines the original plot of the Book with a feisty capable heroine who loves libraries More than roses a cast who is funny As Well As scary a Village hunk who serves As a comic villain and a household of animated inanimate objects. Voices include Paige o Hara As Beauty Robby Henson As the beast Jerry Orbach As an amorous candelabrum and Angela Lansbury As a Motherly Teapot. Billy Bathgate rated r. Drama. Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman Star in this drama about gangster dutch Schultz s Early career. The film is an adaptation of . Doctorow s award winning novel Bon n tha Hood rated r. Drama. In the ghetto life is concentrated on survival. This movie takes you into such a neighbourhood to focus on Young people who want to Rise above the crime and violence. Ice cube Cuba Gooding or. Tha Fluhar King rated r. Drama. A radio announcer Falls from Power and ends up on the streets of new York where he finds love Onu the secret of the Fisher King. Robin Williams Jeff Bridges Amanda Plummer Mercedes Ruchla. For tha Boya rated r. Musical comedy. This film explores the ill fated love affair Between a song and dance team As they Lour with the Uso to entertain the troops during Wii Korea and Vietnam. Bette Midler James Caan. Frankie and Johnny rated r. Drama. This is a realistic love Story about a Short order Cook and a waitress in a new York City diner trying to Cope with the problems of love loneliness sex and self esteem. A1 Pacino Michelle Pfeiffer. Highland a 2i tha quickening rated r. Adventure fantasy. Christopher Lambert and scan Connery arc Back As those immortals who cannot die except by decapitation. This time the film has an environmentally conscious theme involving the destruction of the Ozone layer. Michael Ironside Virginia Madsen. The hit Man rated r. Drama. Chuck Norris plays a cop who goes undercover As a Seattle drug lords right hand Man. In Between shootouts with other mobsters trying to muscle in on his Boss territory Norris coaches a kid in the Manly arts House party 2 rated r. Comedy this sequel follows the adventures of rap group kid n play As they Cross the threshold of adulthood. Play Hopes to find Fame in the music business while kid is off to College. Christopher Reid Christopher Martin Martin Lawrence tha last boy scout rated r. Adventure. An cd Cia agent turned private Eye teams up with an sex football Star to track Down the men who murdered a Mutual Friend. Their investigation uncovers a conspiracy so vile it threatens the existence of pro football. Bruce Willis Daman Wayans. Lato for Donnor rated pm. Comedy. Two men Frozen for 29 years in an Experiment adjust to a world profoundly different from the one they seemingly just left. Brian Wimmer Peter Berg. Little Man Tato rated pm. Drama. A gifted 7-year-old boy is Lorn Between his Mother who wants him to live a Normal life and a child psychologist who wants to help him make the most of his potential. Jody Foster Dianne Wist. La Van Largo rated r. Comedy. . Carson stars As a Young Man trying to break into the world of to news. In his struggle to fulfil his dreams he almost loses his own identity. Lisa Arrindell. Ricochet rated r. Thriller. A psychopathic escaped convict concocts an elaborate scheme to destroy the career character and family of the Man who imprisoned him. But the intended vie him is not giving up without a fight. Stars Denzel Washington and John Lithgow. Shining through rated r. Romance adventure. This spy thriller set during world War ii chronicles the daring adventures of a Brooklyn born Secretary working in the new York office of the Oss. Michael Douglas Melanie Griffith. Soap Ltd rated pg-13. Comedy. This Wacky Story reveals All about the lives and loves of the actors and Crew of a fictional daytime soap opera. Sally Field Kevin Kline whoops Goldberg Robert Downey jr., Cathy Moriarty. Strictly butane a rated r. Comedy. An ambitious Mai room clerk Tommy Davidson helps a Workaholic Yuppie Joseph c. Phillips meet his dream girl a Vecty appealing Halle Berry. In return he a acc helps him get into a training program. The movie offers a lot of Cross culture jokes As Davidson learns to dress up and Phillips learns to get Down. Also stars Anne Marie Johnson. Wayne a world rated pg-13. Comedy. Saturday sight a Jevc s Mike Meyers and Dana Harvcy bring Quot their skit about two Metal had talk show hosts to i lie big screen. Their basement Cable Access show is noticed by a network executive who wants to broadcast them nationwide and the Story concerns whether the youngsters can be tamed Down for prune Lime. What about boat rated pm. Bob is so do pc Dent on his psychiatrist that he follows the Man and his family on Lihcit vacation. Richard Dreyfus-., Bill Murray. Aloo on Tho aafe9 circuit rated i an american Tail i evil goes West rated bal Ernest scared stupid father of the Bride. Suburban commando. Rated Pq-13i blame it on the Bellboy curly sue the doctor dutch f\2 Hie deadly Art of illusion hot shots Only the lonely regarding Henry. Rated re Cane fear. Deceived the hand that rocks the Cradle Jungle fever Oul for Justice the people under the stairs. Point break Itic super the taking of Beverly Hills Wom a Bros. Chevy Chase plays a Wall Street analyst who becomes invisible in the comedy memoirs of an invisible  Vinch Lafi write Ron met \ ii memoirs of an invisible Man rated pg-13 a a must sea a a a Worth your time passable entertainment a come no soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait in yet another inexplicable example of of some actors go on forever no matter of Many non hits they make Chevy base takes another crack at the Box of be with this occasionally diverting but am what Limp movie based on a 1987 Ovel of the same title by . Saint. Chase Hasni to had a hit since National Lampoon s vacation but he gives it a go Ere As Nick Halloway a vapid Stock an Lyst whose favorite hobbies Are goofing of on the Job and cruising for Beautiful Omen like Alice Darryl Hannah pretty much wasted in this role. One morning a Hung Over Nick slips out of a meeting in a High tech corporate research facility to catch a few winks in the menus room. But in an incident that will bring Back fond memories of chases pratfalls on saturday night live he accidentally causes an explosion unleashing a Gas that clears the building and makes its sole remaining occupant Nick invisible. He then finds himself pursued by the usual Gaggle of insidious government goons. They Are led by rogue agent Sam Neill who wants to put Nick to work As the ultimate espionage weapon. Director John Carpenter made his rep in the genres of horror the fog Christine the thing halloween and sociological satire escape from new York they live he tries gamely to move things along Here but he has a lot to learn about pacing a farcical adventure comedy. The plot amounts to a thin backdrop for the real Star of this show a the state of the Art special effects which come Courtesy of George Lucas and the boys Down at Industrial Light amp magic. Carpenter and a Trio of writers that includes William Goldman author of screenplays for such movies As Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and the Princess Bride take a few stabs at get Ting philosophical As when Nick laments about How he has a lost everything but his  but then Neil and the spy goons bust in again and we re off on another special effects roller coaster ride. To be fair the effects Are inventive. At one Point Nick unwraps a piece of gum which hovers by itself in the air As it is chewed in another scene the invisible Nick lights up a cigarette while talking to Alice. We see the cigarette float in midair while smoke goes Down a Throat shaped opening to swirl around in what looks to be a pair of lungs. There Are also Clever bits involving Nick foiling a purse snatcher and doing a ventriloquist gag with a drunk in the Back seat of a cab. Yet even the effects Are maddeningly inconsistent which seems to be a problem with a a invisible movies like this. Sometimes Chase is invisible but his clothes Arentt sometimes he is invisible yet objects he is holding such As the aforementioned chewing gum Are not. You would think by now that Hollywood moguls would realize that special effects can to carry the whole show. Memoirs of an invisible Man is essentially a one note joke that is somewhat likable in a Low key Way but not enough to earn it More than two  10 a sunday March 15, 1992