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Show i I by Rick Drough .. ' f "" 1 : ; ' . " ' s . U , ' . . . -.. - ; "1 f 5t - ( .i '' - 5 ... . ( i . - V'J J . . I, " : A. . ' L 1 f V, . " ""'www'" ' ... . , - ' "... ; ; .- ; - . , : - : . , ' The Angel Beach bunch returns for another raucous romp: (back row L-R), Wyatt Knight, Mark Herrier, Dan Monahan, Tony Ganios, (front L-R) Joseph Running Fox, Roger Wilsin, Scott Co-lomby, Co-lomby, Cyril O'Reilly, Kaki Hunter. A Classic Recommended Good double-feature double-feature material Time-killer For masochists only Jaws 3-D One of the stars of 3-D movies in the Fifties was the Creature from the Black Lagoon (who, in one film, terrorizes a Marineland-style Marineland-style resort). The third "Jaws" movie returns to the same plot. Having proved its lack of imagination, the picture pic-ture uses a string of cliff-hangers cliff-hangers to keep the plot interesting. in-teresting. A huge mother (shark, that is) invades the waters of a Florida resort called Sea World, where it survives by capitalizing on the stupidity of the humans there. Two of the heroes are the grown-up sons of Amity's Chief Brody (Dennis Quaid and John Putch). This connection has practically no effect on the plot, except that Quaid as the older son, is even more hysterical than his father, running amok like Chicken Little to get people out of the water. His equally-dense colleagues col-leagues are Bess Armstrong, who wants to domesticate the Great White; and a TV adventurer (Simon MacCor-kindale) MacCor-kindale) eager to reap publicity pub-licity by destroying the big fish on film. At least the resort re-sort owner (Louis Gossett) doesn't want to keep the beaches open, but he can be relied on to make precisely the wrong move that will irritate the fish and put the others in danger. Little wonder won-der the two most intelligent characters are a pair of doughty dolphins. Director Joe Alves (production designer on the original "Jaws") has made what looks like a gory episode of "Sea Hunt," with an actionful script and actors ac-tors who manage to stay awake. The only distinctive 3-D effects consist of chomp-ed-up people and fish "floating" over the heads of the audience. The Man with Two Brains What will happen to Steve Martin, as the world's greatest brain surgeon? He craves the body of his bit-chily bit-chily frigid wife (Kathleen Turner) but is in love with the disembodied brain of another woman. "Man With Two Brains" actually keeps you interested in this daffy dilemma making it the best so far of Martin's joke-bag movies. The script is filled with non seauitur jokes (written by the star, director direc-tor Carl Reiner, and George Gipe) but they rarely stray far from the mood of mad-doctor mad-doctor melodrama. Martin displays his usual cockeyed intensity in the role of the surgeon who invents in-vents the "screw-top method" for removing tne skull, and believes that "we will one day preserve the brains of geniuses in the bodies of dump people!" Turner is coolly infuriating as his "scumqueen" wife. just a tew of the other characters include Martin's true love, a telepathic brain floating in a jar of what looks like Kool-Aid; a fellow mad doc (David Warner) with strange living quarters (his condo door opens into a huge Karloffian set); and the mysterious Elevator Killer, who fatally injects folks with window cleaner. It's skit humor, of course, but well done. Many of the gags are raunchy but few descend into puerility. (The climax does, unfortunately.) Except for those who detest Martin, "Man With Two Brains" is worth a look. You get the feeling that the movie's gags are serving a story, not replacing it. Psycho II Norman Bates is loose again, but the real hacks are the director and writer who have taken Alfred Hitchcock's Hitch-cock's delicately shifting, perverse story and trashed it to produce a standard slasher yarn with herky-jerky herky-jerky plot twists. The sequel is patterned after af-ter the "Sweet Charlotte" movies where a sympathetic psycho is victimized in a plot to drive him back into the padded cell. Norman has returned to the Bates Motel, but he's not alone. He seems to be getting notes and phone messages from his dead mother. Or the guilty party might be someone else the sister (Vera Miles) of his long-ago victim Marion Crane; his doctor (Robert Loggia); or his young girlfriend (Meg Tilly, who takes a gratuitous shower to remind us of the movie's distinguished ancestry). an-cestry). , Director Robert Franklin uses a few tilted angles and high-camera shots to remind us of the Hichcockian style. But the effort is token. Where Hitchcock used editing to suggest the murders, mur-ders, Franklin shows a knife through the head. For all the lip service to "Psycho II," the picture is more comfort able aping "Friday the 13th." . Vera Miles looks haggard, and Meg Tilly is stilted. But Anthony Perkins is in good, nervous form as Normanespecially Nor-manespecially when he stammers to one visitor that "I don't have any cu-uh- utlery," maybe the best horror line since Dracula's, "I never drink wine." Porky 's II: The Next Day About as funny as a rubber crutch! In the first "Porky's," the laugh-support laugh-support system just barely held up through the locker . room jokes because the actors ac-tors were enjoying themselves. them-selves. This time, they're just going through the motions. And director Bob Clark can only create a mood of raunchy hysteria as he follows the adventures of Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), his pals, prudish gym coach Beula Balbricker (Nancy Parsons), and the rest of the gang at Florida's Angel Beach High School. The plot is a retread of the first film. Porky, the clip-joint clip-joint owner, has been disposed dis-posed of, but there's a new redneck villain, back-woods preacher Bubba Flavle (Bill Wiley) who wants to shut down the school's Shakespeare Night as obscene. ob-scene. (Thus, the film bows a little to culture and scores cheap laughs by showing the kids in ridiculous Elizabethan get-ups.) We also have the let's-be-serious-for-a-moment racial subplot the Ku Klux Klan persecutes a Seminole Indian In-dian (Joseph Running Fox), who plays Romeo in the production. The "Porky's" kids triumph over the bigots, hypocritical politicians and bullies with the usual "uproarious" results. (We assume you're a big fan of phony vomit, snakes in the toilet, and cemetery gags.) These kids will either grow up to be terrorists or the owners of a chain of joke stores. |