European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse R this weeks films join it i i i san Antr lean Thi Fml asm wait rated g. The animated return of that lovable rodent has Wievel heading into the wild West to become a Tough Lawman. Voices by John Cleese Dom Deluise and James Stewart. Article a a rated r. Drama to the bureaucratic chaos of a a Hospital a surgical strike Force of doctors and nurses wage War with administrators who practice the Fine Art of article 99. An update of catch 22, it promises wonderful benefits but fails to deliver. Ray Liotta Kiefer Sutherland. Buty and the Bact rated g. Family. This animated feature com hints the original plot of the Book with a feisty capable heroine who loves libraries More than roses a beast 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 Benson As the beast Jerry Orbach As an amorous candelabrum and Angela Lansbury As a Motherly Teapot. Dead again rated r. Thriller. A Young woman tormented by nightmares is put under hypnosis where she describes not her own life but that of the glamorous Margaret Strauss who died in the 1940s. A tangled intrigue of reincarnation and revenge begins to emerge As More of her former life is revealed. Kenneth Branagh Emma Thompson Derek Jacobi and Robin Williams. Dacalcap rated r. Drama. A new York Book editor enjoys a perfect life until her husband is apparently killed to a car wreck and she starts finding out about his past. Now she is in danger. Goldie hawn and John heard. Father of tha arid rated Fig. Comedy. Steve Martin stars As the stressed out daddy trying to Cope with his daughter s elaborate wedding. Chaos and commotion Are exceeded Only by endless preparations and astronomical costs As the fateful Day draws near. Diane Keaton co stars. Tha Flahar King rated r. Drama. A radio announcer Falls from Power and ends up on the streets of new York where he finds love and the secret of the Fisher King. Robin Williams Jeff Bridges Amanda Plummer and Mercedes Ruehl. For tha boys rated r. Phis musical drama explores the ill fated love affair Between a male female song und dance team As they tour with the Uso to entertain the troops during Wii Korea and Vietnam. Bette Midler and James Caan. Highlander 2i tha Rule Kanlong rated r. Adventure fantasy. Christopher Lambert and scan Connery Are Buck As those immortals who cannot die except by decapitation. This time the film has an environmentally conscious theme involving the destruction of he Ozone layer. Michael Ironside and Virginia Madsen. Tha last boy scout rated r. Adventure. An cd Cia agent turned private Eye teams up with an cd Foolbull Star to track Down a killer. Our Down and out heroes arc on the Trail of the men who murdered a Mutual Friend. Their investigation uncovers a conspiracy so vile and vast it threatens the very exist acc of pro football. Stars Bruce Willis and Daman Wayans. Lata for Donnar rated pm. Comedy. Two men Frozen for 29 years in an Experiment must learn to adjust to a world profoundly different from the one they seemingly just left. Brian Wimmer and Peter Berg. Lettla Man tata rated pm. Drama. A gifted 7-Ycar-old boy is torn 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. Jodie Foster and Dianne Wist. La Van Larga rated r. A comedy about making it. . 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 co stars. Mamora of an invisible Man rated pg-13. Comedy. Chevy Chase plays a Wall Street analyst who loses himself and becomes invisible after a Luh Accident. Now he is the target for some really bad Guys who want to take advantage of his condition for their own profit. Mob afar rated r. A look at famous mobsters Lucky Luciano Meyer Lansky bugs Siegel and Frank costello on their Way to becoming legends during the period of 1917 through 1930. Christian Slater and Patrick Dempsey. My a let rated pm. In this comedy drama about relationships Macaulay Culkin leaves Home to hang around precocious 11-year-old Annach Slumsky. Meanwhile her widower dad Dan Aykroyd finds his life brightened by the new Gal in town Jamie Lee Curtis. The Fop must plot rated r. A powerful businessman involved with the Vatican staff in a web of corruption deals with a country priest who is elected Pope by mistake. Robbie Coltrane and Herbert Lom. Leo Cost rated r. Thriller. A psychopathic escaped convict tries to destroy the career character and family of the Man who imprisoned him. But the intended victim is not giving up without a fight. Denzel Washington and John Lithgow. Wayne s worm rated pg-13. Comedy. Saturday night live s Mike Meyers and Dana Carvey bring their skit about two Metal had talk show hosts to the 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 prime on the a Abs circuit Bingo 1 ban commando what about Bob ratio Poui the Addams family blame lion the Bellboy curly sue dutch hot shots the naked gun 2vi the smell of fear soap dish. Ratio re Bac draft Billy Bathgate Cape fear City slickers the commit cols Fredjack the hand thai rocks the Cradle House party 3. Juice Jungle fever the Lawn Mower Man the people Linder he stairs shattered. The super terminator 2 judgment Lay new Lino Cenoma Jenny Wright left and Jeff Fahey Are transformed into fantastic beings in the horror film the Lawn Mower Vinch stall write Ron Mon i Isth Lawnmower Man rated r a a must see Worth your time passable entertainment a coming soon to e video outlet near you and you can wait when you consider the Ever growing list of failed movie adaptations of Stephen Kings work you have to think that his boundless imagination May just be too big to be captured on film. This Low rent Effort Only adds to the evidence supporting that notion. The problem Here is one that crops up increasingly in Hollywood these Days a special effects substituting for any semblance of coherent Story. Special effects alone no matter How awesome and these Are pretty awesome do not a blockbuster make. The Story loosely based on a King Short Story does have an interesting fact based Hook. Its the actual emerging Field of virtual reality or which allows people to interact physically with compute generated landscapes through the use of special gloves helmets and suits. The film opens on or. Larry Angelo Pierce Bros Ana scientist working on or experiments under contract to the shop which is the Standard Hollywood representation of what the Cia must look like from the inside. Angelo working on a Chimpanzee wants to study the possibilities for a expanding the evolution of the human mind Quot by using or together with mind drugs. The Beetle bowed intelligence types who fund Angelo not surprisingly want to Home in on the potential Battlefield applications of his work such As boosting the primal violent urges that Lurk beneath the surface of our civilized veneer. When his test Chimp runs amok at the shops Mountaintop research Complex Angelo comes close to a nervous breakdown and takes a vacation from his work. But then his gaze rests on his retarded Gardener Jobe Jeff Fahe Yand soon he a in full tilt experimental Mode again. The treatments unexpectedly change Jobe from a gentle Simpleton into an Ultra intelligent and ultimately psychotic megalomaniac capable of Reading others thoughts moving objects with his mind and making people spontaneously combust. Of yeah he also mows a Guy to death using a souped up Law master. Its Standard a Grade movie tripe about technology run amok made marginally worthwhile by the special effects including a much touted but underwhelming computer sex scene. They re fun to watch but since they re totally detached from the real world they Are not the least bit frightening a something of a drawback in what a supposed to be a horror film. Its too cartoonish to be scary like watching Wile e. Coyote getting pulped by one of the gizmos he uses to try to catch the roadrunner. Director Brett Leonard who also co wrote the script with Gimel Everett is lost when it comes to developing the human characters and once the wonder of the effects wears off you re left with a nonsensical Sci i mishmash. They aspire to be philosophers when they have Angelo intone a if we use widsom not ignorance this technology will free the mind of Man not enslave but they unintentionally hit closer to Home As far As their film is concerned when they have Angelou a Girlfriend say a it May be the future to you Larry but its the same old Bleep to the Lawnmower Man gets two stars strictly for the effects. Page 12 sunday March 29, 1992
