European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Short takes Acuti Iran bag la if rated pm to. Louis Gossett or. Repeats his role As air Force Ace Chappy Sinclair. Quot Beauty ant Flea baath g. This animated feature offers a deals who a funny As Well As scary. Captain ran pg-13, with the help of Captain Ron the Crew manages to set sail for come is and adventure. Octant in at Ulta r. Cautionary tale of  things that can happen when adults Are tempted to stray from the marital straight and narrow. Starring Kevin Kline and Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio. Olgot Lwft a James Woods Louis Gossett or tries to Rescue Diggs Iown from the corrupt Dutches of Druce Dern. Creating tha Bridge r. The time is the 70�?Ts in Detroit and a very crucial time for three Bud Dies. Danny. Mort and Tim have to make a decision in life which will Lead them Down one path or another the crossing the Bridge in life. Of Olgalee r. Escaped nut returns Home and starts killing goofy teen agers who should know better than to hang around run Down abandoned houses in the Woods. Stars Larry Drake. A raw Quad Man r. Entered around a murder trial inside a military courtroom. Jack Nicholson and Tom cruise give powerful performances \. Forever Young r. Mel Gibson stars As a fighter Pilot who loses his lady love and offers Himelr up for a dec freeze Experiment 14921 tha Dale ovary Po-13. The image of Christopher Columbus voyage is depicted Viv. A idly. Starring Girard Depardieu. Hall altar 2i Nall an North r. Pinhead is Loose again. Stars Terry Farrell and Doug Brad Hama Alana 2t Lett in now York to. Macau icy Culkin once again stars is Kevin Macallister who has to fend for himself in new York City. Honeymoon in vagal pg-13. Nicholas Cage plays a commitment shy private Eye who loses nil Fiancee Sarah Jessica Parker in a poker game to a vegas card shark James Cain. Innocent blood r. Romantic thriller about a female undercover cop in Pittsburgh. Starring Anne Pari Laud. Loop of Ralth pg-13, Steve Martin plays a. Disillusioned evangelist. A Momo Iro of an  Mon pg-13. Comedy. Chevy Chaie plays a Wall Street analyst who loses himself and becomes invisible after a lab Accident. Or. Bao Ball pg-13. Tom Selleck is a fading american ballplayer who is traded to the japanese team to finish out his career. Night and tha City r. New York tale of a nobody who wants to be somebody and uses the sport of boxing to try to make his dreams come True. Robert de Niro and Jessica Lange. Out on a link pm. Matthew Broderick plays a financial Whiz summoned to a logging town named Buzzsaw by his Little Lister. Pat Soma tary 2 r. Return to the eerie Arena where dead critters come Back with a vengeance. Tha rubella Byo r. In 1942, a tabloid photographer s infatuation with a glamorous new York night club owner leads to involvement in Gangland warfare and government scandal. Stars Joe pest and Barbara her shy. Radio Tyor pg-13. Two Young Brothers Sre instinctively protective of one another after their mom remarries and they Are faced with the harsh realities of an abusive Stepfather. Sharing fear and fantasy they discover inc magical world of childhood belief in which animals a Peak and monsters live in the bedroom closet. School Loa pg-13. A Star quarterback it secretly recruited to play for an elite new England prep school. His secret it exposed when a classmate becomes jealous of the his Success of and off the Field. Starring Brendan Fraser Sirof not a whoops Goldberg plays a Pis Sion ate school teacher in South Africa who takes Pride in her heritage end encourages her students Lodoth same singles pg-13. Romantic comedy a introduces us to an engaging Potpourri of Young men and women out on their own Tor the first Lime. Starring Matt Dillon and gorgeous Kyra Sedgwick. A. In Vakars pg-13, this entertaining caper comedy is like the Best Over episode of Mission impossible. Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier Paulh Central r. A los Angeles Man is drawn into the gangs and winds up in prison Only to find out his son is heading for the tame trouble which trapped him. Glenn Plummer and cart Lumbly. Under Sega r. A resentful second in com Mand Gary Busty Hilpi an Excia nut Case Tommy Lee Jones and his terrorists Lake Over the ass Missouri. Unforgiven r. Clint Eastwood produces directs and stars in this Stark Western epic about two gunslingers who come out of retirement to round up a few bad Guys for the Reward Money. White men can t jump r. Woody Darrel son is a Quick con Man who teams up with wet icy Snipes to try to make a few Bucks by running a basketball scam on los Angeles toughest courts. Wind pg-13. A cocky racing skipper hired by a Newport magnate to be his helmsman in the America s cup sailing races faces turmoil and a conflict with his longstanding sailing partner and companion. With Jennifer Grey. Alto an tha Garlt circuit rated Phi Hook 3 ninja kids sister act. Rated re Tel folks. Rated r alien1, Gladiator to Money pure country whispers in the dark. ,. 20th Century Fox Robin Williams right tries to save his fathers beloved toy factory from Michael Gambon and la Cool j in toys. Chuck Vinch staff write Ron movies toys rated pg-13 dded must sea add Worth your time do passable entertainment d coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait actors usually Don t last Long without developing some sense of what works on the big screen and what does no to. Many stars put out movies that May not measure up to All expectations but few get involved in outright bombs like the Warren Beatty Dustin Hoffman Deba cute ishtar or the Jack Nicholson loser Man trouble. Unfortunately for Robin Williams his latest film must be added to that list. Directed by Bariy Levinson and co written by Levinson and Valerie Curtin it s a dose of failed whimsical Ity from Hollywood vets who should have known better. The film tries to be so Many things a children s movie anti War movie comedy movie action movie a that it ends up being an empty Shell. Williams plays Zany Leslie Zero whose father Kenneth Donald of Connor is the ailing patriarch of a Happy and productive toy factory where All the employees tra la la their Way through the workday while making Windup dolls and other innocuous playthings. Although the cider Zero would like his son to succeed him he. Fears the childlike Leslie in t ready. Just before he Dies Kenneth asks his brother it. Gen. Leland Zero Michael Gambotto take Over hoping Leslie will one Day mature enough to step in. Big mistake. With help from Quot Sony Patrick severely miscast rapper la Cool a proving he should t give up rapping just yet Leian strings up a barbed wire perimeter around the fac toy and begins making War toys that can really be used in War. He pitches the project to visiting Pentagon brass As Quot a military you can  the film meanders pointlessly for an eternity until building to the purported Climax a surreal and Silty Battle Between Leslie so a Good toys dolls stuffed Ani Mats Etc. A and Leland s army of miniaturized tanks and helicopters. The film is loaded with quirks Many of them so obtuse a not to mention politically incorrect a that you can to help wondering what Levinson was aiming for. In one scene that goes on far too Long Leslie inspects various kinds of fake vomit and nixes one of them with the comment Quot this is clearly the vomit of a White Man a say what then there Are Patrick a rants about How he hates for various foods to touch each other on his plate. Is that an inbred Jab at Black separatists or am i trying too hard to find some shred of meaning in All of this Hie anti War theme is clumsily handled and would have seemed dated even Back in the Vietnam Era. Much of the film feel stale Why have a parody of a talking Heads video years after that band broke up in a Way that a Only to be expected since Levinson and Curtin wrote the script More than 12 years ago. Other oddities seem to be lapses of logic and continuity. For instance Leslie is portrayed As a naive Waif but that is belied by a scene in which he Maneu vers a sexy factory photocopy cleric Robin Wright into bed. To ten there s Joan Cusack As Leslie a younger sister Alsatia who wears full size prototypes of doll outfits and sleeps in a bed shaped like a Duck. Cusack stumbles around As if she son a mix of thorazine and Librium. The reason for this is revealed late in the film and its just As absurd As everything else about the Story. Even Williams probably the quickest and most inventive comic actor working today seems subdued. He gets off a few Good riffs a a Patton esque speech to his toys As they prepare for Battle with Leland a army is a Hoot a but most of the time Levinson wraps him in a straightjacket. As a director Levinson is a Schizo. He can come up with sleek and stylish films bugs but he can also be insufferably cute the torpid Avalon. This one is As pretentious As any he has done and at More than two hours of running time its too much to ask of audiences. He a venturing into Terry Gilliam Tim Burton territory Here but it s Clear that he forgot his Road map. The production people Are the Only ones who survive with their reputations intact. The imaginative brilliance of set designer Ferdinando Scarfitti and costumer Albert Wolsky is the sole Bright spot in what is in All other respects a Heap of muddled Mush. Each year there Are at least two films bad enough to make me want to walk out Long before they re Over although As a reviewer i m bound to stay until the bitter end so that i might spare others from needless suffering. It does no to Bode Well for 1993 that we re not even through january and i m already Halfway to my quota. Toys gets one Star strictly for the sets and  12 a sunday january 17,1993