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...addition to the usual Burger King tie-in, Lincoln Mercury is running commercials that promote both the film and a new minivan. The movie's sound track includes a spectrum of old and new hipsters: Busta Rhymes and Iggy Pop, Lisa Loeb and Lou Rawls, Beck and DEVO (whose co-begetter, Mark Mothersbaugh, wrote the film's score). There is also The Rugrats Movie itself, a knowing festival of pop-cultural citations, evocations and plain old rip-offs. Says Albie Hecht of Nickelodeon, which conducted "parent-focused research" to broaden the project's salability: "We worked hard to make sure...
...since the heyday of devo (or, perhaps, MC Hammer) have the worlds of nerds and rock so converged. As rockers embrace the Net with fan pages and Web-simulcast concerts, the two cultures have intermingled. Can you tell which is the band and which is the provider of bandwidth? --By Joel Stein...
...cartoon as humans get. But the panting and hard knocks let you know it's another Jackie Chan special. The self-effacing good humor ("I'm too delicate," he complains at once point) makes it bearable, and any film that's brave enough to use the spudboys from Devo for its title song and Tom Jones for "Kung-Fu Fighting" has to get some credit. Eager-to-please and good fun, "Supercop" provides us the very simple pleasure of seeing all the right moves...
With the exception of Devo, funny-talking people with boxes on their heads are pretty hard to watch. Here we have another exception...
Running a film society is not a cheap proposition. A typical Science Center weekend alone runs an average of $80 for security and $150 for hired projectionists and up to $1000 for popular films. Even showing devo films in house dining halls can cost...