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Michael Jackson Meets Batman (Warner Bros.; Anton Furst) This proposal from the production designer of Batman has a quirky logic to it, teaming music's baddest icon with pop culture's most marketable superhero. If the movie bombs, maybe the sound track could offset the losses...
Without question, the real star of this movie is the city of Gotham itself. As envisioned by production designer Anton Furst, it seems to be part Transylvania castle, part Star Wars fantasy, part comic book, but mostly a decaying caricature of Manhattan island. The city is covered in shadow and smog. Any superhero who hung out there long enough would inevitably become a bit deranged, but fortunately Batman (Michael Keaton) has a head start...
...president of Karl Home Video, producer of the Jane Fonda Workout, "best sellers make up 10% of the merchandise, and the rest is alternative programming--books on cooking, travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette to explain how to stack them...
...setting is again Faber College, circa 1962, and many of the characters from the hit movie are back. Though a few of the film's supporting players (John Vernon, Stephen Furst) have hitched up with the TV show, most of the roles have been recast. Realizing that John Belushi's maniacal Bluto is irreplaceable, the series' creators have wisely retired him from action. In Delta House, Bluto has fled Faber forever, to be succeeded by a younger brother known as Blotto. Josh Mostel, who plays the sibling, shares Belushi's girth but is otherwise attempting...
...cast is large and talented. Thomas Hulce (the class "wimp"), Stephen Furst (the class "blimp"), James Daughton (a BMOC of ambiguous sexuality) and Karen Allen (as the sexiest of the animals' girls) are much more subtle performers than the material demands. Donald Sutherland, playing Faber's obligatory pot-smoking English prof, and Verna Bloom, as the dean's alcoholic wife, score some wicked points against the postgraduate generation...