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Show 6D Friday. July 26. 1996 MOVIES AT A GLANCE Ratings Guide Reviews are by Michael Burkett. *&*&& & * Excellent **** Good * *& * Mediocre * * Poor * Worthless New releases THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (G) A live-action retelling of Carlo Collodi's beloved children’s story of the wooden puppet who comes to life. Teen heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas stars as the puppet, opposite Oscar-winner Martin Landau as Gepetto. Directed by Steve Barron (“Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles”), with help from Jim Henson's Cre- ate Shop. Wire service review on Page 8D Movies 10, Wilshire. JOE'S APARTMENT (PG-13) Based on the award-winning MTV live-action/animated short, this stars Jerry O'Connell as Joe, opposite his reomies: 50,000 singing, dancing cockroaches. City Square 4, Movies 10. KINGPIN (PG-13) A former bowling champ goes on such a downhill slide he turns to petty hustling - and takes on an Amish man as his protege. Wacky comedy with Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Bill Murray and Vanessa Angel. Wire service review on Page 8D Cinedome, Motor-Vu Drive-In (with “The Frighteners”), Movies 6. SUPERCOP(R) American release of Jackie Chan's Japanese box-office killer, in which Chan ventures to mainland China tobeat, kick, stomp, pummel and karate-chop the living daylights out of an unusually nasty criminal gang City Square 4, Movies 6 Sneak preview JACK (PG-13) Francis Coppola directs Robin Williams in a comedy about a 10-yearold with an age-accelerating genetic disorder and a dream ofending his long isolation. 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Riverdale 4, 8 p.m. Saturday at Movies 10. Continuing films THE ARRIVAL (PG-13) Sci-fi thriller about a NASAastronomer whoreceives a transmission from deep space. Charlie Sheen and Ron Silver star. Newgate CELTIC PRIDE (PG-13) The ultimate Boston Celtics fans, played by Dan Aykroyd and Daniel Stern, go to extremes in order to ensure their team does well. Lakeside. COURAGE UNDER FIRE(R) Military officer Denzel Washington, investigated for his role in a Gulf War fnendly fire incident, seeks redemption by exploring the death of a female pilot (Meg Ryan). Directed by Edward Zwick (“Legends of the Fall"). Getting positive and mixed reviews. Capitol, City Square 4, Movies 10. DRAGONHEART(PG-13) *** Violence Just as the ads for this standard fantasy-adven- ture proclaim, “YOU WILL BELIEVE.” For example, YOU WILLBELIEVEthat staunchly American actors like Dennis Quaid (cast as a “knight of the old code”) never look sillier than when they're plopped in medieval England and surrounded by real British actors. On the other hand, YOU WILL BELIEVE the FX guys at Industrial Light & Magic may have outdone themselves with the computer-rendered talking dragon (eloquently voiced by Sean ery) who helps Quaid battle an evil king. Kaysville, Lakeside, Newgate. FLED (R) Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin are prison escapees on the lam from both the law and the Cuban mob. Getting so-so and negative reviews. Movies 6, Riverdale 4 (with “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”) THE FRIGHTENERS (R) Special effects take center screen as Michael J. Fox plays a highly paid ghostbuster who's actually in cahoots with the spooks he’s paid to exterminate With Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson and John u Directed by Australia’s Peter Jackson venly Creatures”). Getting so-so and neg- ative reviews. Motor-Vu Drive-In (with “Kingnn’). Movies 6, HARRIET Screen Wilshire THE : SPY newcomer Michelle (PG) ***® 1/2 Trachtenberg stars ng with Rosie O'Donnell in this first big screen venture of Nickelodeon TV. An adapta tion of Louise Fitzhugh’s award-winninig children's book, the grade-school heroineof thetitle is @ Spy-in-training whose exploits are not appreciated by the neighbor's and friends she’s spying on. Movies 10, Riverdale 4 HOMEWARD BOUNDII (G) Bulldog, retnever and cat face danger and meet true love aS (hey attempt to make their way back to the burbs. (G) Newgate THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ®&a#@e Violence, mature themes. The CHECK THESE OUT: (Above) Hibble (Morgan Freeman, left) demonstrates his trust in Moll (Robin Wright) when he reveals to her the brand ofa thief with which he was marked many years before. He,in tum, plays an integral part in helping Moll turn the tables on her past and find the future she has always hoped forin ‘Moll Flanders.’ Hulce, Demi Moore, Jason Alexander and Kevin Kline. Capitol, Movies 10, Riverdale 4 (with “Fled”), North Star Drive-Ins (with “Phenomenon”™) INDEPENDENCEDAY(PG-13) **** Language, violence, mature themes. Make no mistake; the more brain cells you leave at the door, the better. There’s not much that happens in killer-aliens-invade-Earth epic that could bear the weight ofa single rational or analytical thought. But director/co-writer Roland Emmerich (“Stargate”) sweeps you up so quickly in his tidal wave ofstraight-faced, turbo-powered, doomsday-movie silliness that you'll be hard put to formule ) yond, “Wowee!” With Will S Bill Pu and Jeff Goldblum. Walker Cinemas 4, dome, Movies 10, Motor-Vu and North Star Drive-Ins (with “Eraser™) (Left) Ricki Lake(left) and Shirley MacLaine play unlikely in-lawsin this romantic comedy of mistaken identity and unexpected love. JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (PG) ERASER (R) ** Graphic violence andlanguage. A brainless, exhausting reassembly of bits and pieces from all of the other Schwarzenegger movies that are exactly like this one, only better. The credits say “written by Tony Puryear and Walon Green,” but a more correct adjective would have been “exhumed.” The best thing to say about the film is that it makes absolutely no difference whether you walk in at the Deginning or at any other point. The whole thing is a big, noisy, one-dimensional, plotholendden, laughably overdone, numbingly violent loop. Movies 10, and the Motor-Vu and North Star Drive-Ins (with “Independence Day”) Jonathan Hession photo Disney Company's 34th animated feature is a masterful take on Victor Hugo's classic tale of Quasimodo, the lonely bellringer who longs for the beautiful Gypsy girl, Esmeralda. The darkness of the substantially cleaned-up story is gracefully balanced by Disney's trademarked brands of sentimentality, pathos, triumph and comedy. Is it balanced enough for very young children? Only you know the answer tothat one. And if you don't, you might want to prescreen “Hunchback” before loading the kidsin the family van. Featuring the voices of Tom The Raold Dahl story comes to the screen via Tim Burton and Henry Selick. the guys who created “Nightmare Before Christmas.” Voice talents include Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon. Accumulating mostly positive reviews. Kaysville Travolta) is reluctantly thrust into the limelight when he experiences a mysterious blinding flash that leaves him with new-found intelligence -and. Stretches it. in too many conveptional directions. Directed by Jon Turtletaub (“Cool Runnings”). With Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker and Robert Duvall. Walker Cinemas 4, Movies 10, Riverdale 4, Motér-Vu Drive-In (with “Kazaam”™), North Star Drive-In (with “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”); KAZAAM (PG) Pro basketball star and U.S. Olympic team member Shaquille O'Neal plays a 7-foot, 300-pound genie who helps a 12-year-old inner-city youth (Francis Capra) cope with a local gang of es and the impending marriageof his single mother Directed by former “Starsky and Hutch” star Paul Michael Glaser. Capitol, City Square 4 (with “The Rock”), Motor-Vu Drive-In (with “Phenomenon”), Movies 6 MOLL FLANDERS (PG-13) Robin THE ROCK (PG-13) **** Typical summertime blow-'em-up entertainment revved ‘to the max with energy, wit and invention = not to mention Sean Connery’s screen presence, which after all these years can still sear your eyeballs. The plot is as loony as any you'd find in a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie: When nutty commando Ed Harris captures Alcatraz and holds San Francisco hostage with chemical Wright, Morgan Freeman and Stockard Channing star in Daniel DeFoe’s tale of loe, lust and survival in 18th-century London. Newgate MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS (PG) Richard Dreyfuss scored a well-deserved weapons, the FBI's Nicolas Cage and crafty excon Sean Connery are summoned to save the Academy Award nomination for his performance as a day. Directed by Michael Bay (“Bad Boys”) With Michael Biehn and William Forsyth musician who gives up his dream of writing a hony to becomea career high school music teacher. Kaysville Movies 6, City Square 4 (with “Kazaam”) Kays- A TIMETOKILL (R) Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jacksonstarin the filmed adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling first novel about a black man whotakes the law into his own MULTIPLICITY (PG-13) **** Harold hands when his daughter is brutally assaulted by racist thugs. Directed by Joel Schumacher MRS. WINTERBOURNE (PG-13) Cornell Woolrich’s novel “I Married a Dead Man” is the basis for this mistaken-identity story Star- ring Shirley MacLaine and Ricki Lake. vine who helmed the film version of Grisham's “The Client.” See the wire service review on Ramis (“Groundhog Day”) directs and cowrites a Comedy with Michael Keaton as a very Bruce Macaulay photo busy fellow who finds that, by cloning himself four times over, life becomes much, less stressful for a while. Andie MacDowell plays his singular wife. Keaton plays the four separate characters with great skill and panache. MotorVu Drive-in (with “A Time to Kill”), Movies ¢ Walker Cinemas 4, Wilshire MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND (G) Nothing offensive. Just like it sounds, the Muppets taketo the high seas. Tim Curry plays Long John Silver. Reviews from around the Page 7D. Motor-Vu Drive-In (with “Multiplici- ty”), Movies 10, Riverdale 4, Walker Cinemas 4 country have been mixed. Kaysville THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (PG-13) **x** Language, sexual situations, adult hu- mor. Jerry Lewis’ 1963 comedy is updated and paunched up by Eddie Murphy, whose portly Professor Klumpis transformed into svelte ladykiller Buddy Love. Murphy's best and funniest movie in years with more flatulence jokes than any comedy since “Blazing Saddles.” With Jada Pinkett, Larry Miller and James Coburn Directed by Tom Shadyac (“Ace Ventura, Pet Detective”). 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