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...Meryl Streep can't quite save Death Becomes...
...BOTTOM LINE: Meryl Streep shines in a glitzy black comedy, but it's still She-Devil with a make-over...
...about an hour -- while Streep is doing her nonpareil wicked-witch routine -- you can have a good, mean time at this movie, in synch with the cartoonish comedy (Meryl tumbling down a staircase that has about 359 steps) and elaborate special effects (Is that a hole in Goldie's stomach or has she really slimmed down?). All this is swell. Farce, after all, should never be politically correct...
Madeline (Meryl Streep), an actress, and Helen (Goldie Hawn), a writer, are obsessed with their bodies. They will go to a quack doctor or a fat farm to get flat and firm. To find a potion that will keep them forever young -- a kind of Preparation Age -- Mad and Hell will even make a mud-pact with Satan. And you can bet the devil is a woman (Isabella Rossellini). Only the sodden man in their lives (Bruce Willis), a plastic surgeon turned makeup artist for the newly dead, has any understanding of the toxic wastes that lace the Fountain...
...typecast actors. They want to see Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone in shirt-off action movies, not button-down comedies. This summer Willis is playing a wreck revived (remember, ahem, The Bonfire of the Vanities?) in Death Becomes Her (July 31), a comedy about Americans' fear of aging. With Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as dueling harridans, the project suggests little appeal to kids. But director Robert Zemeckis promises broad laughs and dazzling special effects to keep everybody awake and amused...