European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Short takes airheads pg-13. Loud frenetic mostly unfunny comedy about an . Rock group that takes a radio station hostage. Brendan Fraser is the group s Leader. Funny c cameos by Joe Mantegna As a dyspeptic deejay and Michael Mckean As program  in the Outfield pm. A Disney 1951 re make. When 11-year-old Roger Joseph Gordon lev itt sees Angels where nobody else can they help drive his favorite baseball team the California Angels to Pennant Contention. Danny Glover and Tony Daroza. Baby Day out pm. Three bungling kidnapper snatch a baby from a mansion Only to Nave the Tod Dler give them the slip and Lead the Klut Zes on Wacky and perilous Chase through the City. Joe Man Togna and Lara Flynn Boyle. Black Beauty g. This adaption of the classic19th-Century horse Story offers a Classy cast headed by David Thewlis and a Sublime period  pg-13. He has no super Powers no Money and no. Name. He s 0/anlcmsn, self appointed super hero who s so broke he fights crime in his Long Johns. Damon Wayans. Blown away r. Much worse than it should have been Jeff Bridges is a Boston bomb squad expert arid Tommy Lee Jones is his old Ira crony who Isnow trying to explode  Hal pg-13. Set in South Africa shortly after the soviet uprisings of 1976, the Story tells of a police officer Danny Glover who finds himself having tomake impossible choices Between duty and family City Szlekar ii pg-13. Our Urban cowboys Are ready for another adventure,.this time in search of hidden Gold. Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern. Claar and present danger pg-13. Harrison Ford is Jack Ryan is once again drawn into global intrigue. This time he s up against a colombian drug Cartel. With Anne Archer and James Earl Jones. A -. The client pg-13. Susan Sarandon and Tommy. Lee Jones Are wonderful together in the latest John. Grisham novel. Unfortunately they play supporting roles to a kid actor who s very impressive. The Newbey Way Rodeo cowboys from new Mexico walk through a lonely god forsaken Wilder Ness that some Call hell and some just Call new Yor City. Woody Harrelson and Kicfer Sutherland. Forrest Gump pg-13. Tom Hanks plays a Simpleman who becomes an All american football player a decorated War hero and a prosperous businessman a. The Good son g. Dismaying film about a Good boy Macaulay Culkin whose Mother Dies so he goes to stay with relatives including their evil son Elijah Wood. I love trouble pm Nick Nolle and Julia Roberts play rival reporters working for competing Chicago newspapers who find themselves on collision course when Jucy Are assigned to investigate train wreck in the army now pm. Pauly Shore joins the army reserves for the bennies and the regular salary. Reality kicks in when he becomes part of a Mission involving actual combat. Wit could happen to you pm. This Sweet nothing of a film pairs Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda in an. Appealing fairy talc of love and the new York Tot Lery. W ,.  a lightning Jack pg-13. A bungling outlaw teams up with perceptive mute partner to enjoy life of crime Paul Crocodile Dundee Hogan and Cuba goo Lingjr. The lion King g. Disney s newest animation is magnificent entertainment. Music by Elton John.  tie Little rascals pm. Penelope Spheeris stylistically venturesome but uneven feature length up Date of Hal Roach s Long running our gang series of shorts effectively evokes a past innocence but needs More slapstick and less adult repartee. With Travis Tedford As Spunky Bug Hull As Alfalfa and Brittany Ashton Holmes As Darta. The mask pg-13. Jim Carrey a mild mannered Bank clerk is transformed into the weirdest super hero of All time when he dons his mask. I Maverick pg-13, Mel Gibson liars As the Charm ing con Man with a Knack for getting in and out of trouble. North pm. Elijah Wood an 11-year-old boy feeling unappreciated by his parents hires lawyer de clares himself a tree agent and searches the world for the perfect parents. Bruce Willis. Inoc chlo g. The most highly acclaimed of the Early Disney classics pinocchio tells the fanciful. Story of a Little wooden puppet who is brought to life by the Blue fairy and must prove himself worthy. The Shadow Po-13. Before James Bond before Indiana junes before Batman there was the Shadow 3 mysterious vigilante whose Powers and relentless Pursuit of Justice made him a Scourge of evil and � hero to millions. Alec Baldwin and Penelope Ann  the Shaw Shank redemption r. A tale of How salutary life behind bars can be mixed with brutality intended to convince audiences that what they re watching in t a big glob of Cotton Candy. Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. Speed r. Hold on for electrifying action As a bus carrying a bomb careens through the los Angeles. Morning Rush hour. Dennis Hopper and Scanu reeves., Tormina velocity pm a. A skydiving instructor Charlie Sheen takes a mysterious stranger Nastassja Kinski out for her first lesson Only to watch As she free Falls to her death r or it soap pears.  Tom eco r. Could this be Jean Claude Van dam. My s big breakthrough that will catapult him to  stardom Van do me plays a Sci i Constable who hops from decade to decade rounding up time travelling Crooks. True lies r. Harry Tasker Arnold Schwarzenegger is a special agent and International spy who has kept his real profession secret from his wife Jamie Lee Curtis for As Long Ai they have been together. Wagons East pg-13. John Candy in his last film role plays an inept Wagon master to a group of West Ern is Tilers fed up with cattle rustling and Bank Rob Bing and head Back cast Wolf r. Jack Nicholson gets excited when he s bit ten by a Werewolf. With Michelle of Ciffer. Wyatt Earp pg-13. This Saga wraps up the leu and of the old West with the Man who came to Symbol ize what it All stood fur. Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid. Compiled from wire reports. Star ratings by Chuck Vinch. Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone get involved in the specialist which opens Friday on the cafes circuit. Warner Bros. Chuck Vinch stall writer on movies the specialist rated r must see Worth your time passable entertainment  soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait it s Nice to know there Are still some things in life you can depend on. For example when you go to see a sylves Ter Stallone movie you can bet the farm that enough ordnance will be expended to rival operation desert storm. In his latest adventure sly plays an Excia explosives expert on a Mission to blow various Miami underworld characters into Kibble so you know you re in for a decidedly percussive experience. But while the stunts and Spe Cial effects Are everything we be come to expect from Stallone the material Between the action sequences is Likely to make you comatose. The  off with a bit of scene setting in a Flashback from 10 years ago. Ray Quick Stallone is on a Cov Ert Mission in Colombia with his part Ner Ned Trent James Woods to blow up a Bridge when a certain drug lord drives Over it. But they have a Vio Lent falling out and go their separate ways. Cut to present Day Miami. Ray is us ing near the waterfront in the bowels of a drawbridge which he has rigged with a Security system that features huge explosive charges tucked into strategic places.  .-.,Ray is hired by sultry May Munro reigning Hollywood sex Siren Sharon Stone to rub  three hoods who work for cuban drug lord Joe Leone Rod Ste Gerone of whom is Leone s son Tomas Eric Roberts. She wants the three dead because they iced her parents when she was a Little girl. Complications ensue when Ray Dis covers that his old pal Ned the kind of Guy who likes to nurse a grudge is now chief of Security for the Leone family. What s More May might have her own Little plan to play both sides against the Middle. Cue the explosive devices. The idea of teaming sly with Stone must have seemed great on paper and to be fair they do generate heat when they flaunt their flawless bodies in a couple of sex scenes. But there s no getting around the fact that they Are two of the most wooden actors working today. Watch. Ing them emote together is like watch ing two Pine Trees swaying in the Breeze. Stone Sparks huge laughs with her serious readings of lines like i be heard that you control your explosions that you shape your  neither is capable of striking More than one pose. Stone plays her usual ice Queen Bitch. Stallone is his usual neanderthal who talks with his fists As in the gratuitous scene aboard a City bus in which he pounds three Young toughs into hamburger a scene that has nothing at All to do with the Story. Fortunately the film has Woods who has spent his entire career playing live wires with Loose connections. Director Luis Llosa wisely gives him Sev eral opportunities to Chew the scenery. In fact Woods has the Best pure acting scene in the film. It comes when Ned goes Over the Edge during a phone Call with Ray who knows just what buttons to push to set off his old partner. Another Bonus for film fans is Steiger s return to the big screen after an absence of More than a dozen years. Using a thick accent that sounds like it s from Havana by Way of Romania he s one of the few actors capable of going toe to toe with Woods. In his last two films demolition Man and Cliffhanger sly made a conscious Effort to take a Page from his buddy Arnold Schwarzenegger s Book by injecting much needed humor into the carnage. In the specialist he has reverted to taking himself far too seriously. That can be deadly in live action cartoons like this no matter How Many things get blown up. Page 12 sunday october 16, .1994