Word: cartoonishly
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...brilliantly as Pynchon. Mason & Dixon bears some resemblances to Gravity's Rainbow. Both books are huge (the first edition of Gravity's Rainbow ran 760 pages). Both have truncated double dactyls (Duh-duh-duh Duh-duh) as titles. Both manifest Pynchon's trademark narrative rhythm, repeated segues from cartoonish pratfalls into surreal episodes of phantasmagoric dread, punctuated by periodic eruptions of songs or poems...
Bill Clinton woos voters with the ardor of Pepe Le Pew. Bob Dole's cranky bombast suggests a gaunter Foghorn Leghorn. And Ross Perot? Yosemite Sam. Electoral politicking can get so cartoonish that the making of political-cartoon movies might seem redundant. But Cartoongate (Kino International Video), an hour-long melange of short film parodies compiled by animator Greg Ford, proves that the men who want your vote have long been a source for ripe, mean...
Although not the best of Jackie Chan, "Supercop" nonetheless offers dizzying, cartoonish action in the usual atmosphere of good-natured mediocrity. Since by many standards the film, actually the third in a series, might be considered bad, the way to approach it is by striking a deal: the movie won't ask for much, so you shouldn't ask for much. This way, the film acquires a scrappy appeal thanks to Chan's physical comedy and dare-devil feats...
...behold, a kindly geneticist notices Kinney's plight and decides to help him--by cloning him. Uh huh. But the more cartoonish this movie gets--a coffee pot bubbles among the complicated looking test-tubes involved in the cloning process--the better it becomes. As Doug, and Doug, and Doug, and Doug try to solve all of the original's problems, they find that the logistics of their parallel existences cause more difficulties than they can handle...
...Story who thought he was real, investors in Pixar Animation Studios have learned that reality bites. Pulled down by the collapsing, technology-driven NASDAQ market, Pixar stock fell 5.7% last week, to close at $16.50, light-years from its November high of $49.50, signaling that the almost cartoonish rush of IPO investing is finished...