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...Erich Segal, invented bizarre universes for the Beatles to stroll through, and designer Heinz Edelmann dreamed up creatures whose beguiling oddness suggests a collision of Dali and Dr. Seuss. Seen now, in a long-overdue video release, the film registers as an obvious inspiration for Sesame Street, Monty Python and MTV, and is a delight on its own. Thirty-one years on, nothing in feature animation has matched its endless, exhausting inventiveness...
...that their first feature is headed for $100 million at the domestic box office, Myrick and Sanchez have just one sure thing ahead of them: the sophomore jinx. They describe their next film, a comedy called Heart of Love, as "Mad Mad Mad World meets Monty Python meets Airplane! meets the stupidest movie you've ever seen." Could it tank? Of course--like most indie or studio films. "We know we're gonna bomb," says Sanchez. "We're gonna live with that bomb and nurture it and then watch it explode...
...decides that the players are excessively distracted by his innocent, aqueous ambition. Bobby returns home for condolence from his mother (Kathy Bates, who seems stuck between her roles in Misery and Titanic). At this point, the endless volley of "bayou" jokes begins, ranging from a dinner of medium rare python to a disproportionate propensity for missing teeth. At first, these are gross and funny, but eventually become just gross. Amazingly, Bates and Sandler manage to keep the unoriginal material quite hilarious; but even Sandler's comedic appeal cannot sustain the mindless Foxworthy humor. Fortunately, he does get some help from...
Though one would expect to find Monty Python at the bottom of such a concept, the writers of this ambitious parody were three Californians who had the idea while putting up skits at their local Renaissance Faire. They decided the idea was so brilliant that they wrote down the bare bones of the performance and took it on the road, producing it throughout the known world before retiring and turning the script over to those who need it most; namely, pre-midterm college students with a pent-up urge for nose-thumbing...
Former Monty Python member MICHAEL PALIN, host of A&E's travel series: "While filming in Novgorod once, I submitted myself to 18 straight vodkas. My system fought back. I raced to the washbasin, a monument to Soviet plumbing. It wasn't attached to the wall. Nausea hit as I staggered round, trying to keep 55 lbs. of basin from breaking both my legs...