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...perfect curve of a racetrack, filmed from far above, the spinning effect achieved by race cars circling in parallel formation. This cinematographic sleight-of-hand is just the first drop in a cascade of sensory jokes and puns that keep this sophisticated bit of flotsam bubbling along. The viewer can't help but go happily with the flow...
LOVESICK leaves the viewer like a partygoer with an empty stomach, stuffed with a vast array of reheated gimmicks from other movies but still lacking a satisfying main course. This latest Hollywood release stars Dudley Moore as another New York psychiatrist who falls in love with his lovely neurotic patient (Elizabeth McGovern) to the accompaniment of innumerable cute gimmicky scenes. In both content and style, the material proves merely a rehash of past comedies, romantic comedies, and comedies about psychiatry...
...allusions to psychological theories serve only to distract attention from the equally unfocused action. Director-writer Marshall Brickman tried too hard, and too obviously, to keep the film constantly hilarious with devices like Freud's commentary and Benjamin's exotic fantasies. But these devices end up annoying the viewer because they don't fit smoothly into the plot...
...achievement of the Tavianis and their cast of professional and nonprofessional actors that the receptive viewer comes to see and share these dreams, finding gentle humor and martial horror in each character, each scene and shot. By the end of this majestic entertainment one feels like the children in it: that one has not been told this story but dreamed it, and awakened refreshed and exhilarated...
...professional boxer in a real fight, but the duplicity of side-kick Veronica (Teri Garr) and the cunning of enemy Lonnegan (Oliver Reed) throw snags into the action. Lonnegan plans to alert their dangerous prey (Karl Malden) to the plot, and so dispose neatly of the pair. The viewer, impatient by the time this has all been explained, finds new amendments unremarkable...