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...lovesick teenage android living in a lonely space station where he assists his creator--an insane, Nazified professor played by Klaus Kinski--on "Operation Cassandra" (the ultimate android!). As the film opens, Max is hanging around the space station playing video games, listening to rock-and-roll, and watching video tapes of black-and-white Hollywood feature films from the last century. When a female voice comes on the monitor, sending out an SOS and requesting permission to land, Max becomes really excited--a real live woman. Without asking the boss for permission. Max allows the damaged spaceship to dock...
...FILM ADAPTATION of John Irving's novel The Hotel New Hampshire starts off with all the promise of a New Year's Eve party--the right people (Jodie Foster, Nastassia Kinski and Beau Bridges are among the more illustrious members of the cast), the right settings, ranging from New Hampshire and Vienna to New York, and most important for New Year's Eve parties, and all other fantastic, the promise of illusion...
...friend confusingly named Freud start the second Hotel New Hampshire Permanent guests in this home lodge include terrorists, one of whom, Miss Carriage, played by Amanda Plummer, has a very peculiar accent, another who bears a suspicious resemblance to the prep school youth who raped Fanny, Susie the bear--Kinski dressed in a potbelly bear suit (why the sultry Kinski hides in such a suit is never satisfactorily explained), and a pack of German whores...
...Preston Sturges' 1948 comedy, Unfaithfully Yours, scores a narrow but clean win over one's nostalgic sentiment for the old master's original. Director Howard Zieff has retained the classic farcical premise: a jealous husband (Dudley Moore) is erroneously convinced that his young wife (Nastassja Kinski) is cuckolding him and is maniacally determined to gain revenge. Sturges' neat twists are retained too: the husband is still that paradigm of dignity in need of mussing, a symphony orchestra conductor; and while leading the orchestra, he still fantasizes a perfect but totally impractical plot to murder his bride...
...aplomb in the original, and one cannot expect that of Moore; there is only a half-pint of him to melt. But the range and control of his facial expressions are a joyous astonishment, and the Ministry of Silly Walks should declare him a national treasure. Kinski too is back within her best range, cheerfully sexy instead of glumly sultry. In short, Unfaithfully Yours is faithful to comedy's best professional standards. It is smart, well paced, nice looking and reminds you of Hollywood's good old days without making you mourn for them. -By Richard Schickel