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...John Bottoms moves smoothly from Roy Orbison raptures to sputtering outrage to weary depression; he can't quite bring off the tender pathos written into the script, but few could do any better. Stehlin turns a stock soap opera part (the idealistic male ingenue) into a combination of Matthew Broderick and Woody Allen acting out a Roy Rogers fantasy; he suffers worst from the capricious plotting, and can't expand his stage presence into a full three dimensions...
...coming Matthew Broderick steals the show as Phillippe the Mouse, a devil-may-care pickpocket who saunters through impenetrable fortresses, subterranean passageways and enchanted forests. In the process of extricating himself from the grasp of some rather unsavory soldiers charges with reimprisonng the lawless but lovable Phillippe in the infamous prison of Aguila, our hero meets up with Nararre, the aforementioned chivalrous knight who rescues the Mouse just in time and spirits him off to safety...
Bumbling his way through 13th Century France, Broderick'ss Phillippe is the quintessential nerd-in-shining armor. Responding to Navarre's grandiloquent statement that Phillippe's arrival is a sign from God that Navarre must meet his destiny by murdering the vile Bishop who has cast a spell over Navarre and his lady love Isabeau (Michelle Pfeitter), the Mouse quips, "Well, Sir, I talk to God all the time, but meaning no disrespect he never mentioned...
...Broderick does a good job ogling Pfeitter "the face of love itself"), but like a good champion in training suppresson his boyish fantasies out of respect for Navarre. After some is needed for more important things, like breaking the evil spell that turns Navarre into a wolf each night and Isabeau into a falcon each day. Seemingly the only mortal lead to retain his human form for more than two hours at a stretch, Phillippe becomes a go-between for the star-crossed lovers, embellishing their tender messages with fanciful tidbits from his own overripe romantic imagination. The lovers' tragic...
...able to meet as two human beings, Ladyhawke is a refreshing change of pace from the quagmire of Police Academy II's and Friday the 13th, Part V's currently flooding the movies theaters. A touch of Stephen Spielberg would spice up the plot and quicken the pace but Broderick manages to fill in the gaps quite well all by himself...