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...summer of famous movie parodies such as "Hot Shots: Part Deux" and "Fatal Instincts" (coming out soon), one wonders why another is required. In fact, Charlie Sheen's chicken-arrow parody of the Robin Hood arrow scene was funnier. Because "Men in Tights" can only make fun of "Prince of Thieves," the storyline becomes dull and predictable and the viewers tend to wonder if Mel Brooks got his sense of humor from John Houseman...

Author: By Young IL Kim, | Title: These Tights Don't Fit | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...made the brains explode on time in Die Hard, might seem just the team to send up the dizzy conventions of the action genre. At first they do so, smartly. A wounded cop mutters, "Two days to retirement," and promptly dies. And Arnold's version of Hamlet is even funnier than Mel Gibson's. "To be, or not to be," he says, lighting his trademark cigar stub. "Not to be." And Elsinore goes boom! But after a while, as the facetious film references (to everything from E.T. to The Seventh Seal pile up, Hero turns into the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dinosaur And the Dog | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...survive the excruciatingly slow painful beginning without running, screaming, out of the Agassiz you will be rewarded with the entertaining performances of the several accomplished leads. But all the talent in the world doesn't quite redeem a production marked mostly by its slow pace and stale direction. The funnier moments of the Gilbert and Sullivan operates do shine through the dreariness but it is depressing to see such a fine cast wasted...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Rough Sailing for Gondoliers | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...Woody Harrelson) debate the offer forever before she accepts. They quarrel while Diana and her one-night stand get lovey-dovey, but then things turn out fine. Because director Adrian Lyne takes all this so slowly and seriously, Indecent Proposal is an inadvertent comedy. As such, it is much funnier than Honeymoon in Vegas, which tried in vain to be funny about the same idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Apr. 19, 1993 | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...humor magazine must be funnier than the last issue...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Freeze Extracurriculars Now | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

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