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Schwarzenegger is a scientist named Dr. Alex Hesse. With hustling Larry Arbogast (Danny DeVito, Schwarzenegger's Twins costar), he has developed a drug that promises to help women carry difficult pregnancies to full term. The Food and Drug Administration refuses them permission to test it, so they steal an embryo, fertilize it and implant it in Alex's abdomen. After which nature -- if that's the word we want -- takes its course. The Kevin Wade-Chris Conrad screenplay takes some humorless pains to make this science fiction plausible, and it's smart of director Ivan Reitman to be patient with...
Warm-hearted humanism is glopped all over Renaissance Man in the hopes that we won't notice that the story makes no sense. It proposes that the only job available to Bill Rago (Danny DeVito), a defrocked adman, is teaching an ill- defined lit course to a multicultural squad at an Army base. Why the commanding colonel thinks these studies are vitally necessary is not made clear. Especially since the kids turn out be quite sweet and bright and mostly doing fine in basic training. It's all really just a con on the part of the moviemakers...
...slickly mounted. Melody Anderson and James F. Kelly (who played R.F.K. in three previous TV movies) do passable impersonations, and director Bradford May keeps the close-ups tight and the action fast; the re-created Senate-hearing clashes between Kennedy and Hoffa are more convincing than anything Danny DeVito managed in Hoffa. If Marilyn & Bobby were not about two historical figures whose actual lives -- as opposed to the fantasies people continue to build around them -- still matter to us, Marilyn & Bobby could possibly be dismissed as harmless...
...supposed to take John Leary (Danny DeVito) warmly to heart. He has a childlike nature, at its best whimsical and gallant, at its worst careless and a little dim about the relationship between cause and effect. A recent widower, he is doing his best to single-parent two young boys (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. and Miko Hughes) and to make good in his cute new job (as the comically ghoulish host of midnight horror movies) in a new town (Oakland, California, circa...
...direction by Marshall Herskovitz, one of the creators of television's thirtysomething, is at least true to the spirit of the script -- at once ponderous and digressive -- but without a clear, clarifying attitude toward it. DeVito's performance is characteristically strenuous, but he is lost -- who wouldn't be? -- among the story's conflicting moods and emotional claims. They should have called it Jack the Unbearable...