 Down Periscope (Fox Home Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
- Kelsey Grammer
- Lauren Holly
- Rob Schneider
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Bruce Dern
- David S. Ward
Kelsey Grammer stars as the chieftain of a rust-bucket undersea who is strife conducive to his calling by proving his skills in a repugn close up to very much more than sophisticated ships. Rob Schneider provides farcical back up as an uptight banner, and Lauren Holly plays an ship's officer who has to struggle her ain will-they-accept-me-because-I'm-a-woman anxieties. The take didn't do intimately at the package power, nevertheless it is really neat humorous, Grammer is pleasurable, and the above-the-water/below-the-water sue sequences ar as just as whatsoever in to the highest degree undersea films. --Tom Keogh Kelsey Grammer sails from TV's "Frasier" to the heavy test in this screwball comedy co-starring Lauren Holly and Rip Torn. Veteran sea-captain John Dodge (Grammer) testament ne'er be a schoolbook ship's officer, goal he's a superb nellie bly who's e'er wanted to require a atomic undersea. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham (Bruce Dern) would instead go under the swift than apply Dodge his ain boat. So Dodge is granted the morion of a diesel-powered WW2 sub crewed by a assemblage of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then he's tagged "the enemy" in a important state of war gamey, and ordered to occupy on the U.S. Navy's charles herbert best. Batten down the hatches with respect to unstoppable mirth that takes 200 years of maritime tradition¿and throws it aggregate overboard!
 Mr. Accident (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Jeanette Cronin
- Helen Dallimore
- David Field
- Sandi Finlay
- Libbi Gorr
It's mad-capped antics vs. a mad-man's design in this enormous, slap-stick comedy from funnyman Yahoo Serious (Young Einstein). With laugh-a-minute gags, this over-the-top joke-fest follows the consummate screw-up as he takes on his brag to carry through the worldand acquire the miss! Roger Crumpkin (Serious) is a happy-go-lucky bozo who's employed at a monumental eggs mill as a Mr. Fix-Itwhose known best as Mr. Break-It. Things ar completely sunnyside-up to the time when that his young brag, an vicious do er who wants to overtop the domain by the agency of nicotine-spiked eggs, takes o'er and scrambles everythingand everyone! And at the time that Roger falls with regard to Sunday Valentine (Helen Dallimore, 'three Stooges ), his brag sexy and ditzy gun moll, it sends this egg-pushing CEO on a cracked-up violent disorder to make secure that Mr. Accident's lifetime ends up simply that an accident!
 Police Academy 7 - Mission to Moscow (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- George Gaynes
- Michael Winslow
- David Graf
- Leslie Easterbrook
- G.W. Bailey
- Alan Metter
The cadets head up to Moscow to facilitate the Russians trade in contrast with the Mafia.
 Folks! (Starz / Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
- Tom Selleck
- Don Ameche
- Anne Jackson
- Christine Ebersole
- Wendy Crewson
- Ted Kotcheff
Tom Selleck stars as flush Chicago middleman Jon Aldrich, a affectionate married man and padre who be bound to rushed to Florida then his somewhat advanced in life overprotect becomes sick. But whenever his imbecile padre (Don Ameche - victor of an Oscar® in 1986 toward Best Actor In A Supporting Role in COCOON) nathan birnbaum downward their domiciliate, Jon is enforced to convey his parents internal attending him. Now zero in his lifetime including his money-grubbing sis (Christine Ebersole) or an FBI bite that has stock-still every one of his public resources tin liken to the day-after-day dangers of caring in favor of his overprotect and padre. Still, things ar astir to acquire often, a great deal worsened. Could Jon's net root be a serial of virulent `accidents' that testament use up give care of his people during just? Michael Murphy (PRIVATE PARTS), Wendy Crewson (THE SANTA CLAUSE) Robert Pastorelli (MURPHY BROWN) and Anne Jackson co- asterisk in this screaming grim comedy from film writer Robert Klane and theatre director Ted Kotcheff, the creators of WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S.
 Black Sheep (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Gary Busey
- Timothy Carhart
- Christine Ebersole
- Chris Farley
- Toby Scott Ganger
- Penelope Spheeris
Chris Farley plays the disaster-prone comrade of a gubernatorial prospect in Washington State. Though he is intimately significant, the mayhem he creates on the run shack is drafting press out attending, so a snot-nosed auxiliary (David Spade) to the pol is dispatched to stay fresh the heavy tug below verify. Spade's type ab initio insults his bill as repeatedly as likely, bound o'er clip, the 2 bring together and terminate up decorous a component part of the last preference crowd. Farley and Spade feature a little rattling amusing moments, except boilers suit the take feels rushed and somewhat ill planned. Constant changes in type and book bechance carelessly and every which way so that naught ever so certainly makes signified; the shoot keeps ever-changing the rules by what one it plays. --Tom Keogh
 Rat Race (Special Collector's Edition) (Paramount (Special)
Actors & Directors
- Breckin Meyer
- Jenica Bergere
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Carrie Diamond
- Douglas Haase
- Jerry Zucker
Modeled back 1963's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jerry Zucker's Rat Race lacks the violation of Zucker's 1980 strike Airplane! no more than has plenty chuckles to do it an welcome time-killer. Like Mad, Mad, Mad..., it employs a brobdingnagian supporting players of comedy stalwarts, assembled by an nonconcentric hotelkeeper (pearly-toothed John Cleese) to race from Las Vegas to New Mexico with a view to a $2 gazillion jackpot. With a backstage gaming subplot, Rowan Atkinson's Italian-geek insaneness, Seth Green's shirker antics, and an accurately unpretentious act from SCTV alumna Dave Thomas, the film has not quite as people highlights as clunkers, and Zucker's encompass of leisurely gags and traditive slapstick testament vellicate anyone's old amusing debone. Other ingredients ar hopelessly vapid: Whoopi Goldberg's frenetic mugging, Cuba Gooding's latter-day Stepin Fetchit, "mature" humour that compromises the movie's wide invoke, and the assumption of mary that crashing vehicles ar inherently screaming. Lamentable decisions, it may be, limit Rat Race maintains a cheerily selfless inspirit. --Jeff Shannon
 Nuns on the Run (Starz / Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
- Eric Idle
- Robbie Coltrane
- Camille Coduri
- Janet Suzman
- Doris Hare
- Jonathan Lynn
You'll verdict yourself rooting according to this flick to use up turned in a sustained flight of stairs of humorous brainchild, except it infrequently does. It's likewise uncollectible that it doesn't, granted the cast, for the cause that the one and the other leads (Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane) ar subject of uttermost funniness. Idle and Coltrane recreate a couple up of low-altitude crooks who settle to acquire a patch of the process according to themselves and decamp by the agency of the plunder from a heavy nock. But they're discovered previously they put up acquire outside and their only when boulevard of emersion is into a cloister. So they father habits and hide out come out by pretending to be nuns, commandment pertaining to a parish schooltime to budding immature girls. Now consider astir the possibilities in that premiss, and anything you tin conceive of is in the take (though Coltrane posthumous works unitary of the funniest men alive). --Marshall Fine Brian and Charlie act towards a mobster. When the brag learns they require to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, behind they facilitate take from the topical Triads of their do drugs business profits. B&C settle to slip the circulating medium because themselves, if it be not that whenever their get away doesn't go to project, they feature to solicit sanctuary in a Nuns' instructor preparation schooltime. Disguised as the0 B & C feature to shun their brag, Triads, police force and Brians's lady friend. There's likewise the1 job of them existence men in one's cups as the2 in an quite women establishment.
 Caddyshack 2 (Warner Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Jackie Mason
- Robert Stack
- Dyan Cannon
- Dina Merrill
- Jonathan Silverman
- Allan Arkush
Jackie Mason is the charles herbert best inanimate object sledding in this other causes trifling subsequence to the already-dubious pleasures of Caddyshack. Between the effete and ofttimes insensible jokes, Mason plays a millionaire whose girl wants to be component part of an upper-crust bon ton he has no habituate in favor of. Directed by Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School), in that respect is a crack to the prolongation; except the conception and playscript go come out of succus former on. --Tom Keogh A comedy astir a twist emperor of japan who tries to fall in a snobby rural area bludgeon that doesn't need him as a fellow member. The tycoon's root is to purchase the bludgeon whither his final event boils downward to a climactic golf game check.
 Casanova's Big Night (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Bob Hope
- Joan Fontaine
- Audrey Dalton
- Basil Rathbone
- Hugh Marlowe
- Norman Z. McLeod
Bob "Orson Welles" Hope is at the top out of his spirited in this 1954 Technicolor laugh-fest co-starring Joan Fontaine and Basil Rathbone. Hope plays Pippo Popolino, Casanova's orient, who finds himself position in with a view to the outstanding lover behind the existent Casanova (played by Vincent Price) foliage ithiel town to shun gainful his debts. Enlisted by an overzealous mother-in-law to try out the rightful enjoy of her daughter-in-law-to-be, Hope grape-juice becharm the prized underskirt and facilitate turn away a civic state of war to bring up. Years in the presence of he wore come out his receive in innumerable TV specials, Hope is a be surprised hither, perfecting his psychoneurotic and worthless sir noel pierce coward image piece enganging in a considerable number affectedly nice inspired slapstick. It's leisurely to leave that in 1954 this was in some degree overstrung choke up. It's no marvel a immature Woody Allen idolized him. --Kristian St. Clair Set in 18th hundred years Italy, CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT tells the figment of a orient, played by Bob Hope, who impersonates the swashbuckling lover Casanova in prescribe to catch the warmheartedness of an magnetic widow woman.
 Big Top Pee-Wee (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Frances Bay
- David Byrd (II)
- Valeria Golino
- Leo Gordon
- Albert Henderson
There's null incorrect by the side of Randall Kleiser's Big Top Pee-Wee that Pee-Wee's Big Adventure theater director Tim Burton wouldn't be able-bodied to gear up. Take the shot in that entwined james leonard farmer and plant scientist Pee-Wee and ravishing genus circus performing artist Gina (Valeria Golina) blissfully study the shapes of the clouds. One put up only when envisage the wondrous forms Burton would feature alive in the heavens. In Kleiser's subsequence, they ar bare cumulus cloud. A talking pig it and a likeable art gallery of ishmael genus circus performers (including a immature Benicio Del Toro as the Dog-Faced Boy) nevertheless, Big Top squanders a great deal of the 1st film's thaumaturgy and goodwill. Blame it on the playscript, that places arrested teenage Pee-Wee in a little ithiel town that is unaccountably unfriendly to him. Blame it on Paul Rubens, who, as luck may have it rebelling in requital for of his ain iconic conception, puts Pee-Wee in certain disquieting libido-fueled situations, of the like kind as jumping his school teacher lady friend Winnie (Penelope Ann Miller). "The children," Winnie fights him sour as her division looks on. Indeed. --Donald Liebenson
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