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Frankenheimer specialty (Remember Grand Prix?). He loves sending his vehicles screeching through narrow European streets, and he apparently loves trying to top himself, because there are three such sequences here. They are done the old-fashioned way, by stunt drivers, which gives these thrill sequences an immediacy, a nervy elan that special-effects techies can't quite generate on a computer screen. They also assert the only message this film wants to convey, which is that in action movies it's not what you say but how smashingly you say it that counts...
...Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, but with a little sex. And even that is so sweet it's tweet. (In Broadway Damage two young lovers climb up a tree for their first kiss. No kidding.) It makes sense that O'Haver, who evokes the retro spirit with such expert elan, has signed with Universal Pictures to direct a movie of the Archie comic book. We can't wait to see if Archie gets to pining over Jughead...
...might hope Eddie Murphy's new comedy would have some of the coarse elan of The Nutty Professor--its parading of his gift for mimicry and disguise. But here he's a physician who not only can talk to the animals (voiced by Norm MacDonald, Albert Brooks, Chris Rock and other familiars) but also has to listen to every cocky word they say. So this very active actor must be mainly reactive. And there's not much humor in 85 minutes of Eddie going...
...season shaped skis account for more than 80% of the alpine skis being sold. (Total ski sales of $24.3 million were up 82% from the comparable period a year ago.) Shaped skis "have given a new life to skiing," says Bruce Barrows, vice president for sales and marketing at Elan-Monark, which introduced the first sharply shaped ski four years...
...expertly crafted with supremely labile comic expressiveness; he could conduct a symphony with his eyebrows. Watching that face react to preposterously inextricable situations that the rest of his body has created is a delight. Atkinson moves with an awkwardness that can only be described as graceful--an uncoordinated elan, a lithe clutziness. These qualities still exist in the movie, fortunately, but they have been dumbed down. There is more bathroom humor than there ever was in the TV show, and Bean must share the screen with the far less inspired antics of many more characters than he would interact with...