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...rammed from behind by some bad guys in a van. They're trying to push the couple's car onto the tracks. Ding, ding, ding! The train is coming! Screech! The good guy accelerates, and the bad guys' van ends up on the tracks instead. Wham! Kapow! Impressive fireball! Fortunately, one of the bad guys is still alive and has time to look up and react--Wuh-oh!--just before the van is hit by a second train on parallel tracks, a deft directorial callback to an earlier scene in the same movie when another bad guy had time...
...KAPOW! BATMAN ATTACKS ROBIN...
Okay, so what do I do? Do I just sit back, relax, let old age sneak up behind me and KAPOW!, I'm watching "Matlock?" Do I fight it by regression--dust off my old G.I. Joes and restart the never-ending combat with Cobra? Do I run to stay in place, or as John Cougar Mellencamp put it, "hold on to 16 as long...
...plot skeleton is ancient and predictable, the flesh of the movie is as firm and bouncy as Tank Girl's own. Talalay effectively juxtaposes the live action with short segments of animation, computerized effects, puppet animation and arty close-ups of Hewlett's drawings which rightly communicate the KAPOW! of comics. There is an extravagant Busby Berkeley dance number to Cole Porter's "Let's Fall in Love," and several other scenes totally unnecessary to the plot. It is these scenes which make the movie great...
Another spare-time kneader, the California Institute of Technology's director of publications Ed Hutchings Jr., 60, of Altadena, bakes loaves of "basic white" with bran or wheat germ each Saturday. "Kapow!" he says over the stove. "If you've got any frustrations, this is the way to get rid of them...