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Saturday Night at the Movies

Here's a couple of good DVDs in case you're short of ideas. We get them free from the local library.... helps to lower expectations. Warning - nothing artsy-fartsy here - strict commercialism.

Clue from all the way back in 1985, stays true to the board game of the same name, and it's as slapstick as they come. Lots of belly laughs and silly - man, this is silly! Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, and Martin Mull, all locked into a mansion and one of them may be a murderer?? I mean, c'mon, that's what I call Casting with a capital C for Comedy!

For everyone who ever had a bad job and dreamed of an escape, this movie is for you. While it's admittedly light fare, I think that Joe Versus the Volcano is the kind of quirky romantic comedy that makes for easy viewing. Made in 1990 and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, this movie predated 1993's Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail in 1998. This is like eating marshmallows for dinner, but what the hell.

I guess, if the chemistry works, you keep going back to the lab for another experiment. Hanks is so young, well, they both are I guess, and they're both cute as buttons - so cute you could just pinch their cheeks! The director, John Patrick Shanley, had just directed that classic Moonstruck in 1987, BTW. Abe Vigoda, "Fish" in Barney Miller, is the coup de grace as the native chief - reminds me of the Hollywood casting of old, where white guys always played Indians. Check it out.

Posted on February 02, 2008 at 10:47 PM

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