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From the opening credits (a police car's siren light cruises down a street, onto the sidewalk, into a house, through a girls' shower room) to the closing crawl (which confides, "In case of tornado, southwest corner of basement"), The Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom...
After the first five matches, the rest of the players seemed to be racing each other to the shower. Junior Charles Dowling crushed Diego Roca, 15-3, 15-7, 15-8, while Co-Captain Frank Huerta didn't even have to go airborne to capture a 15-7, 15-12, 15-11 victory over Malcolm Miller...
...admits. And ego. This is a mutual- admiration society, where singers feed off plaudits from their peers. The moment in the lights is everything. "Barbershopping is Broadway," a Dallas voice points out. "You've made it here. Guys who didn't know they could carry a tune outside the shower -- everybody is a star...
...shower and thunderstorm activity that we see taking place around the hurricane itself is getting better organized, more vigorous, so we think it's starting to strengthen," said Sheets at the Hurricane Center...
True to the genre, Romero runs clever twists on mandatory horror-movie citations like the Psycho shower sequence (Mrs. Bates is a monkey) and The Old Dark House climax (Ella pulls the power switch). And at the end, Monkey Shines soars into that rarefied sci-fi air where melodrama meets metaphor. Romero, best known for Night of the Living Dead 20 years ago, has grown up here, grown past Hitchcock homages to fix on the war of mind and body that everyone ceaselessly wages. While he's at it, he has made the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg...