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...their Ozark swamp, signs a billion dollar deal and moves to Beverly Hills. Jed Clampett, played by Jim Varney of dubious "Ernest Goes to Camp" fame, decides his daughter, Elly May (Erika Eleniak), who spends her spare time wrestling bears, needs some refinement. So he takes her, Cousin Jethro, and Grannie to Beverly Hills to find a wife who will be a mother to Elly May. Oh, the daring...
...most part, however, the Hillbillies fit in surprisingly quickly. Elly May becomes the school heroine and captain of the wrestling team, Jed is sought after as an eligible bachelor, and Jethro is made vice president of the bank. Ever-efficient bank executive Miss Jane Hathaway and her uptight boss Mr. Drysdale, played respectively by the usually talented Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman, fit in so well with the Clampetts that they might as well be adopted into the clan...
...role; the rest of the cast seem to make a concerted effort to stifle any semblance of character in their characters. The only exception in the otherwise lackluster cast is newcomer Diedrich Bader, who outshines the veterans with the energetic and infectious sense of fun he brings to Jethro...
Ethologist Marc Bekoff of the University of Colorado agrees: "I have no doubt that my dog Jethro experiences beliefs about the outcome of his actions, expectations about the future. He has goals. If he tries to solicit play and I don't play with him, he is surprised -- and he looks it. It's just wrong to say dogs don't have thoughts and beliefs about their world just because these might be different from our beliefs...
...time, and spent the next four years fulfilling that promise. The songs here, happily, avoid the worst of the excess; the pleasantly catchy "An Elegant Chaos" captures the flavor of the period, and "Sunspots," Iyrically a doodle, is worth listening to if only to hear what a Jethro Tull flute solo over a Nirvana guitar break might sound like. With a tuba...