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...West, wonderfully narrated by Peter Coyote, doesn't have the tight focus or cumulative force of The Civil War; with so much ground to cover, this wagon train can't linger too long in any one spot. And we miss at least some discussion of how the legendary figures of the West fit into the story. Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok are dismissed in a sentence; Jesse James and the O.K. Corral aren't mentioned at all. Viewers weaned on TV and movie westerns will be mildly disappointed. And Buffalo Bill would have been appalled...
...eight songs in Away We Go! are full of imagination and snap (be forewarned that they will linger far too long in the heads of grownups), but this is not the sort of children's entertainment that will knock you out with its sophistication. Larson was not aiming to educate here nor to be hip--don't expect to see the wee stars exploring a divey apartment with a bathtub in the living room. He was only trying, it seems, to breezily delight his young audience. And that he has certainly accomplished. --By Ginia Bellafante
Director Stanley Tong lets the camera linger lovingly over all the stunts and bravely struggles to keep up with the dizzying fights. But with anything else, such as the scampering and giggling around a hotel pool, things quickly get incomprehensible: we learn to wait for Chan's reassuring mischievous grin or whirlwind kick...
There's something about the summer that robs the everyday of its gravity. It seems wrong not to linger over lemonade, not to spend weekends wandering towards the beach, or Sundays bringing back sand and sunburns and almost somber senselessness...
...slow. Maybe evoking the vague vitality of these days will get me through my next tour of duty, an indefinite stay here. I'm excited for the time when the Washington World starts to move again. But I'm not too sad that summer in this swamp will linger well past the time Cambridge is crisp and cognizant again...