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...animation houses for other prime- time cartoons. Most of the promised shows never materialized (The Pink Panther) or came and went in a Road Runner minute (Capitol Critters, Fish Police). None, however, carried higher expectations than Family Dog, based on an episode that Tim Burton (Batman) directed for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories series. So excited was CBS that it devoted much of its valuable commercial time during the 1991 Grammy Awards to promoting the show, which was scheduled to start that March...
...series was postponed at the last minute when Burton and Spielberg were reportedly unhappy with the animation. Family Dog was sent back to the shop, and what followed was a two-year odyssey in which the missing series became a running gag between TV reporters and network programmers. Now, with a lack of fanfare that would be mystifying if it weren't so revealing, Family Dog is finally being let out of the kennel for a summer run, when the only significant viewer reaction is likely to be a puzzled, What was all the fuss about...
Ever since the director hit it big with Jaws, people have been telling him to grow up. They want him to tackle more personal themes, to address adult subject matter, to please stop making Steven Spielberg movies. Perhaps Schindler's List, the Nazi-era drama he has already completed shooting for Christmas release, will satisfy those who want Spielberg to enter an auteur rehab clinic...
...more personal to him than this one. With its next- generation effects and its age-old story line, this is a movie whose subject is its process, a movie about all the complexities of fabricating entertainment in the microchip age. It's a movie in love with technology (as Spielberg is), yet afraid of being carried away by it (as he is). The film even has a resident conscience, chaos theoretician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who insists that what God has put asunder, no man should join together...
Dinosaurs run brilliantly amuck in Spielberg's Jurassic Park...