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...Texas, the Democratic-controlled state senate drafted a plan that would concede two of the three new seats to the G.O.P. but would also create a dragon-shaped 27th Congressional District around Austin that would be solidly Democratic. Republican Governor William Clements promptly vetoed it. Texas Republicans, meanwhile, cut a deal with black and Hispanic Democrats that would turn two mostly white Democratic seats in the Dallas area into a heavily black Democratic district and a largely white Republican district. Indeed, though all 17 black members of Congress have lost constituents since 1970, nearly all are expected to survive redistricting...
...though technically impressive, is not a very ambitious movie. Robbins sticks close to the traditional outline of heroic deeds interwoven with improbably convenient love. Ulrich, an over-the-hill sorcerer who still wonders why he could never turn lead into gold, sends his young apprentice, Galen, to conquer the dragon. Galen befriends a pretty young woman who wears men's clothing. Once she gets her wardrobe sorted out, he faces his enemy, fortified by his own bravery and a bit of old-fashioned hocus-pocus...
...down into murky caves and facing off against the 50-foot lizard who has just torched the whole kingdom with a few sneezes. As a lover, he is tepid at best, remaining oblivious even when his ladyfriend mentions at one point that she's still a virgin, and the dragon only eats virgins, and isn't there something they could do about that...
THANKFULLY--WE DON'T have to wait very long between fire-breathing sequences; Robbins knows what the kids have come to see. With theater-rattling thumps, our dragon stalks his turf, and like a B-52 with scales, swoops over hapless victims, booming displeasure with the human race. Great care has been taken to construct a plausible lair for the villain, a spooky underground grotto containing an Olympic-sized pool complete with burning water and oozing ceiling. The little baby dragons, who display a revolting appetite for freshly killed princess and give Galen some initial resistance, may provoke more than...
...When it comes upon its massacred offspring and nudges their mutilated little bodies in desperate hopes of finding a trace of life, you will no doubt feel more sympathy than when some damsel gets herself burned to a crisp. If only there had been some way of keeping the dragon in front of the camera more, perhaps they could have rewritten the whole story and done it from the bad guy's point of view...