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...Judi Dench, fresh from her Oscar for Shakespeare in Love. As Esme, the self-centered actress whose relationship with her daughter (Samantha Bond) deteriorates over the years, Dench is indeed a marvel, as impressive for what she doesn't do as what she does. This is no scenery-chewing cartoon of a theatrical grand dame but a tightly controlled and utterly convincing portrait of a woman whose performance doesn't end when the house lights...
...play on The Downtowners, the upcoming prime-time cartoon...
...fever has spread to the U.S. Within a month of its debut last September, the TV series--less a cartoon than a half-hour exercise in Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with...
...from their childhood--the stories of the battle between the evil Claw and the clueless Inspector for the safety of the world all wrapped up into cheery half-hour segments. Matthew Broderick stars as the detective hunk and Rupert Everett takes up the role of Claw, who in the cartoon was never seen except for a cryptic hand massaging a big fat ugly cat. The plot is similar to the cartoon--in this one Gadget is blown up during a chase with Claw but is miraculously put back together by the seductive surgeon Brenda (Joely Fisher). Brenda also seems...
...Buzz Children are bored by the half-hour cartoon--it's a tad bit questionable why anyone would like to watch a hour and a half of trench-coated Matthew Broderick and a mini-skirted Joely Fisher. Looks like another whammy against Broderick--at least he's still got his Ferris royalties and Ms. Sarah Jessica...