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Show B-8 The Park Record Wednesday, June 5, 1996 Nielsen can't overcome Spy Hard script despite trying performance (l LIMITED TIME OFFER 1996 ESTEEM ISM aw-- vmm.1- - . ' O """"" " ""-O m 1.6 Liter Valve Engine, Dual Air Bags, Daytime Running Lights, 6 Spd., Air Cond., Fold Down Rear Seat, Rear Defrost, wheel Covers $2000 Down or trad equity, 24 mo lease fees, Tax, O.A.C. TOW MUST WSXft RENOWNED HYPNOTIST Fwum Kernn Ttm row iflBTnei ' w w two a. " ml 1 ED 09 mwafflaawai QATIIPnOV IIIMB99Mn WASATCH HIGH - 64 EAST 600 SOUTH - HEBER Tickets Available At All Smith sTlx & Smith's Tlx Charge By Phone 1-800-888-8499 For More Information Call 1-80O-467-0849 Tickets $10 At The Door By Rick Brough RECORD GUEST WRITER Spy Hard Starring Leslie Nielsen, Nicolette Sheridan and Charles burning Directed by Rick Friedberg Hollywood Pictures, 1996 Poor Leslie Nielsen. There's no way he can go back to those serious dull roles he played for so many years on TV. And yet, nobody is writing decent "spoof' movies anymore. Nielsen is as goofily inventive as he can be, but he cant overcome over-come a script where the hero is named Dick Steele, Agent WD-40; WD-40; where the movie steals a bit from Airplane and uses it three times in the first 20 minutes; and where the world-conquering villain, vil-lain, in the manner of Dr. No, has two artificial arms, and tends to go around yelling "You wouldn't attack an unarmed man!" The scriptwriters seem to have relied on a few hard and fast rules: Whenever possible, use the trademarks popularized by the Airplane and Naked Gun movies. These include funny credits; a short appearance by Weird Al Yankovic (who does supply one of the film's high-points high-points with his rendition of a Goldfinger-style opening-credit theme song); and plenty of cameo appearances, from the likes of Mr. T., Hulk Hogan, Dr. Joyce Brothers and finally, Pat Morita upstaging everyone as a Southern California waiter. Throw in as. many in-jokes as possible alluding to other movies. There's a surprising amount of material here ripping off Eastwood's In the Line of Fire, but there are also references refer-ences to Cliffhanger, Sister Act and Pulp Fiction. A brief remake of Speed with Ray Charles as the driver and the bus flying hex y v. TV IsTi Nicolette Sheridan stars as beautiful and mysterious agent 3.14 and Leslie Nielsen is agent WD-40 (a.k.a. Dick Steele), in Hollywood Pictures' new comedy Spy Hard. across the moon a la E. T. isn't as much fun as you expected. But there's an unexpected bonus when a Macauley Culkin look-alike look-alike (Mason Gamble, who played Dennis the Menace) gets his come-uppence. Don't be afraid of tasteless-ness, tasteless-ness, as when Nielsen, fending off an adversary, grabs two urine samples and wields them as if they were vials of acid. Dont be afraid of drop-dead-dumb jokes. Thus we have a Moneypenny-type secretary (Marcia Gay Harden) named Miss Chievous. 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If you can't find an actor who's right for a role, grab anybody. any-body. In this case. General Rancor, the evil genius who plans to conquer the world, is played by Andy Griffith? Refusing to throw away his country accent, Griffith talks like a megalomanicaal Matlock and looks like Marshall Tito. The movie scores the occasional occa-sional good joke, and possesses a certain air of dim-witted fun, just because Leslie Nielsen is in it. He also scores points for humility humili-ty in the bedroom scenes where he shows off his going-to-flab body. Maybe there's an unintended unin-tended quiet joke there, about action heroes who overstay their welcome. Spy Hard leaves you convinced, con-vinced, though, that Nielsen deserves better roles. How about casting him as the father of Ace Ventura? What's PC watching? Park City Home Video's Top 10 Rentals for June 5 1. Jumanji 2. The American President fr Moriey Train ,, , 2 . 4. Now and Then 5. Powder 6. How to Make an American Quilt 7. 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