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...Pesci works his scuzzy Leo Getz character hard to take up the slack, but he's oldish news by now--and so are the film's action sequences, all frantic variations by director Richard Donner on gags we've seen before. New news Chris Rock works harder than anyone else trying to get laughs as a young detective helping the old pros pursue a gang that's smuggling illegal aliens into the country, but he's caught red-handed trying to steal the picture. Get some sneakers, kid. And try whispering...
...time when the story diverges from its animated predecessor. Screenwriter John Hughes can't resist turning the film into a hybrid of one of his "Home Alone" movies, featuring a drawn-out sequence of physical comedy. De Vil's henchmen Horace and Jasper play the Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci roles, as they are flung through windows and into frozen ponds. Cruella ends up the victim of much of this comic buffoonery, as she is kicked by a horse, squashed by an overweight hog, and immersed in a vat of molasses. This sequence is not particularly agonizing to watch...
...phrase Christmas movies summons candy-cane memories of Jimmy Stewart chatting with an angel, Natalie Wood on Santa's knee, Macaulay Culkin giving Joe Pesci a splitting headache. It also suggests another fantasy: the family setting off for the local movieplex and seeing a film together instead of having to go to two different features, one for Mom and Dad, the other for the kids. Surely, somewhere under the holiday sky, there must be a film the whole family can stand. Mustn't there? Surely...
Impersonators of Pee Wee Herman, Cliff Claven, Joe Pesci and Frank Sinatra--who sang the 1950s classic "You've Got Me Under My Skin"--also took part in the 40-minute ceremony...
Tension builds and the film unravels when a boyhood friend of Ace's named Nick Santorro (Pesci) moves to Las Vegas. Nick is an enforcer whose job is to protect Ace. Instead he uses his innate charm and frantic firsts to intimidate just about everyone in Las Vegas. Nick's flamboyant style and brutal methods alienate everyone. When Nick, Ace and Ginger degenerate into a lying, cheating and stealing triangle, the film too gets stuck...