Word: schticks
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...REST OF GANG'S HERE too--or at least most of the gang. Apparently, Woodstock's schtick isn't stock, and Sally, Marcie, and Pig Pen have been excised...
...werewolf schtick went through a novelette" phase on its way to becoming a box-office draw, but it would be a mistake to call Silver Bullet a story. Stories generally rely on characters and a plot...
Then, sometime before the witch and the priest unloosed their awful revenge on the pristine jungle things started to change. One character threw out a string of Bond Jokes; his love answered, "Roger." The Man of the Year, being human, laughed. The audience kept drinking. The Belles did their schtick, then stripped down to yellow stain bikinis and did it again...
...blind devotion couldn't quite obscure the sustained flat moments in every one of the troupe's movies following Holy Grail Unfortunately, schtick after schtick failed to approach the inspired idiocy that King Arthur and his knights achieved in that film, Rewriting the Gospels (Life of Brian) offered promise, but on film even the madcap Pythoneers seemed to hold themselves back under the weight of their own irreverence. Modeled after a Lewis Carroll poem. Jabberwocky deteriorated into nerve-deadening blood and gore. A romp through time and space with a seven-year-old (Time Bandits) fell into the saddest trap...
...little that he can do to overcome it. Joseph Bologna, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy, and Adolph Green are all fine character actors, but in this case, we've seen the characters too often before. Most of them are in the well-worn uptight-showbiz mold; the Yiddish momma schtick at Benjy's Brooklyn home is an excruciating parade of old cliches. Only one memorable move emerges from this stew of reheated vaudeville; when Benjy announces: "We Jews know about two things suffering, and where to get great Chinese food...