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...been down all year," says an industry watcher. The Power Rangers have handed the veteran infantryman an unconditional defeat. All non-Power Ranger action figures have done badly -- "They're pretty much duds," says an analyst -- though Hasbro's Batman bucks the trend...
...Batman...
According to Vinni di Cicco, bar-tender at the Italian restaurant Domenico's on Bennington Street, the parade included balloons, floats, marching bands and various cartoon characters such as Batman and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers...
Most of Burton's films have been better than better. One wonders why this one is so dishwatery -- why it lacks the cartoon zest and outsider ache of Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands or Batman Returns. Could it be he gave the material too much respect? The real Ed Wood would have known how to do it: with oddball twists and goofy stock footage, with no brains and a lot of heart. It would have been dreadful, and it would have been better -- more desperate, more daring. But this Ed Wood is dead wood...
...been pulled apart and then basted back together. He can freeze into an exclamation point or, doing his trademark hula, go all loose and noodle-y. Imagine a goyish Jerry Lewis with less ego and more self-esteem and you have Carrey. Crossbreed Lewis' The Nutty Professor with Batman and you have The Mask, with Carrey breathing life into director Charles Russell's tatty fable...