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...talking toys are cuddly, cute or even particularly appealing. Galoob's Mr. Gameshow ($129) features Gus Glitz, a fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...
...watching stand-up comedians in what used to be a stable and living in what used to be a factory are now, happily, coast-to-coast cliches, not novelties. As ever, there are trade-offs: such transformations, especially as they become pandemic, can seem overbearingly glib, clean and cute...
Throughout Hope and Glory Boorman proves unable to balance the serious nature of the events he depicts and the humorous episodes he describes. The serious often descends into the sentimental and the humorous into the cute. One moment, the family's house is burned to the ground, forcing them to move in with mother's grandparents. But no sooner are they there then Grandpa's comic zaniness changes the mood, as he interrupts breakfast on the veranda to shoot at a rat in his vegetable garden. The scene is absurd enough to make a Scrooge laugh, but it hangs loosely...
What Am I Doing Here? -- Lawyer, personable, nice job, great wife, cute kid, very happily married . . . (well, reasonably happy, I mean, O.K., I'm fortyish and I don't even want to think about approaching mid-life, let alone a mid- life crisis, but still) . . . seeks . . . (no, not 'seeks,' maybe 'is willing to entertain the notion of meeting') . . . attractive woman who might want to spend a weekend over drinks, dinner and dishes. Or not. Your call. Uh, wait! Don't call -- at home or the office. Instead, write me if you want...
...surprise" ending that most Americans must by now know by heart. (No peeking at the next five paragraphs if you haven't seen the film.) Start with a Manhattan marriage, radiant in its yup-scale domesticity. Beth (Anne Archer) gets dressed for a party -- sexy. Dan walks the dog -- cute. Daughter Ellen (Ellen Hamilton Latzen) crawls into bed with Mom -- poignant. To an outsider, their life must look like a New Age greeting card...