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...played by a redhaired, freckle-faced 12-year-old humanoid named Johnnie Whitaker, on leave from his true calling, which is shilling for a line of kid's clothes. Jeff East plays Huck like an old-fashioned fraternity boy dressed up for the Sadie Hawkins Day dance in Al Capp's Dogpatch. Warren Gates as Muff Potter and Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly struggle against the killing banality of Taylor's direction; but only Jodie Foster, as Becky, suggests that she somehow remembers what it is like to be a real person in a real world...
...sanity at a dreadful price. But she takes so long to achieve her goal that she wonders whether it was all worthwhile. It was not. With the exception of Zohra Lampert's subtle and knowledgeable performance, no one in the cast has enough substance even to be considered humanoid. And after the first reel, the vampires seem to have lost their bite. Perhaps they, like the viewer, should have been forewarned by James Thurber's celebrated dictum: Don't count your boobies until they are hatched...
Less than a generation ago, a species of future shock overcame many laymen when they contemplated a new invention-the electronic computer. There was vague anxiety about machines that could think, a corner-of-the-eye vision of humanoid steel creatures winking out their possibly baleful computations. It was-and still is-modern man's version of the Frankenstein anxiety...
...searching frantically for Charlton Heston, who, it may be recalled, got hung up in a time warp in the original. Franciscus and Heston's girl friend (Linda Harrison) escape from the same simian world where humans are treated as lower animals and stumble onto an underground civilization of humanoid atom-bomb freaks. These thermonuclear trippers are about to launch civilization's last A-bomb against their ape rivals. Worse, they have Charlton Heston stashed in a cage so he cannot thwart their plan. Franciscus and Heston try to fight their way out, but alas, fate and the scriptwriters...
Fantasy, anything that doesn't make sense to Walter Disney Productions Inc., was not allowed in these affairs. It was all made to fit the mold of soft, flowing shoulders, violins and ribbons, and words that would spill off the lips of fair maidens, For Disney, fantasy was the humanoid animal--the glorious moment 40 years ago when Mickey Mouse spoke...