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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, based more or less on life models. We've all been where he's going--on a desperate last-minute search for the overhyped toy without which a kid's Christmas morning will be miserable. In this case the problem is exacerbated by the absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JINGLING ALL THE WAY TO THE OLD DALMATIAN FARM | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...ending, when Arnold turns into Turbo Man, is preposterous, though perhaps no more so than the uncanny interspecies communication of Dalmatians. But the technical sophistication of these trick-laden films appeals to older kids in a way that classic animation--which bears a kid-stuff taint--often does not. It may be the ultimate merchandising tool. And one we're going to see more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JINGLING ALL THE WAY TO THE OLD DALMATIAN FARM | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...Shakespeare. Well, there goes the youth market, out like the life in Claire Danes' and Leonardo DiCaprio's bodies at the end of the turbo-glam teen weepie, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY SHAKESPEARE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...find these sweet mixes of cunning and convention throughout The Long Kiss Goodnight, a sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MOM'S A SPY | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin, the 'Long Kiss Goodnight' is a sweet mix of cunning and convention. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave star Geena Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side and uses it against those who made her what she was. Like the heroine, the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 10/11/1996 | See Source »

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