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Also angling for kiddie cash are A Class Act, starring Houseparty's Kid n' Play (June 5), the Ralph Bakshi cartoon fantasy Cool World (July 10), Damon Wayans' Mo' Money (July 17), Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, with Beverly Hills 90210's Luke Perry (July 31) and Love Potion 9 (late August). The adult buried in every child will have to make do with Steve Martin's Housesitter (June...
...standard Latin American charismatic type," "Belaunde, the Herbert Hoover of Peruvian politics: and "Furjimoro [sic] known as the karate kid" (Fujimori, the last name of the current Peruvian President was misspelled throughout the entire editorial as Fukimoro) only serve to create a stereotype which depicts Peruvian leaders as being cartoon characters. I hardly believe that Javier Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of teh United Nations) and writer Mario Vargas Llosa (who will shortly be a visiting professor at Harvard), both current leaders in Peruvian society, fit stereotypes that the author is trying the portray...
...MADE CARTOONS OUT OF THE JACKsons and Hulk Hogan. Why not try it in reverse, fleshing out a peerless kidvid cartoon of the '60s? Here's why. A few years back, Dave Thomas and Sally Kellerman starred as a live-action BORIS AND NATASHA, the spy-in-the-face nemeses of Jay Ward's immortal Rocky and Bullwinkle. Charles Martin Smith's film was never released, but it is now being aired on Showtime. Because the small screen has laxer standards for comedy (after all . . . Full House?), you may briefly indulge the strenuously facetious antics, the wisenheimer narration, the cameos...
Just when you thought that the cartoon characters were the only ones left who were allowed to burst into song, along comes Newsies, an old style, live-action musical from Disney. Yet if Newsies is any indication, it would probably be a better idea for Disney to leave the singing to cartoon characters. For the film's attempt to fuse the spirit of classic MGM musicals with a message about workers' solidarity hardly goes beyond the limits of innocent...
...unfortunately, can never go beyond it. The story, which is meant to be less an assault on capitalism than a celebration of a victory over injustice, lacks the effect of sincerity which would stick with you long after you leave the theater. In a remade form, using only cartoon newsboys, the material for Newsies may work, but as it stands, the film will seem dull to children and badly contrived to their parents...