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us critic - type people are always shaking our heads and telling everyone that movies are n't thrill rides , but i think that " back to the future ii " is one of the few exceptions .
if the original film had the spirit of the 1950s , then this has the spirit of the 80s : full of fights ; chase scenes ; cliff hangers ; special effects ; some detective work ; and of course the vision of the high - tech future .
the film picks up exactly where the first film left off , with doc ( lloyd ) , marty ( fox ) , and jennifer ( elizabeth shue ) travelling 30 years into the future , because something bad is going to happen to marty and jennifer 's kids .
doc tells marty he must take his son 's place at an incident that will cause a chain reaction if marty mcfly jr .
says yes to griff ( wilson - in one of four different roles ) .
whoever said history tends to repeat itself was n't joking , especially when it comes to the movies .
essentially the same chase scene that marty endured in the 50s takes place again in the year 2015 , but it 's not as authentically exciting this time because it is so obviously a parody of itself .
at the end of the situation marty has changed the course of history for the better , and it seems like everything 's copasetic right ?
wrong .
since when do things go according to plan in the " back to the future " movies ?
there are so many minor conflicts and details that effect the plot and the direction of the story i wo n't even bother to list them all .
basically we get to see marty as an old man , his house , his family , etc .
we also go back to an alternate 1985 , and then back again to 1955 , with everything happening so fast the film never stops to catch a breath .
the films ' best aspect is the fact that it actually goes back to the first movie and shows a lot of the action that occurred from another angle .
it 's difficult to convey the sense of wild and zany fun without describing every little detail .
the only thing sacrificed in this film is the suspense .
instead of a grand finale , we get lots of little victories .
by the end everything is back to normal , but something happens that leads to yet another sequel , but it does n't seem gratuitous .
" back to the future part ii " is a really great adventure movie .
it certainly has more originality than other films but it lacks a certain charm that was dominate throughout its predecessor .
P

you know , i never really wondered what the tarzan films would have been like had tarzan been an old man .
while watching instinct , i could n't help but acknowledge the way the film carelessly rehashes the well - explored themes of those earlier movies .
even beside the tarzan comparison , instinct just is n't a very good film .
it 's painfully idealistic , manipulative , and silly .
i did n't hate it -- it 's simply impossible for me to hate any film starring anthony hopkins ; furthermore , most of the acting is quite good .
but i can recognize instinct for what it is beyond my subjective admiration for the actors involved .
i can also recognize reasons for wanting to make instinct , and it 's pretty clear that this could have been a good film with a massive script overhaul and a director less interested in imitating movies like patch adams .
things start off in the predictable way , as director jon turtletaub introduces us to our hero , theo caulder ( cuba gooding , jr . ) , an ambitious , young psychiatrist under the supervision of an experienced , old psychiatrist ( donald sutherland ) .
caulder soon finds himself involved in the case of his life , the one he thinks will make him famous .
the subject is ethan powell ( hopkins ) , an anthropologist who has been living among gorillas in africa for the past two years .
powell has been charged with the brutal murders of several men in africa , and it 's now caulder 's job to find out of he 's mentally competent enough to stand trial .
through a series of short sessions , caulder tries to put together the complex psyche of powell .
even though it really is an old man version of tarzan , much of this central idea is rather interesting .
as i said , hopkins is captivating for every second he 's on screen ; he has a way of convincing us that he 's not acting , that he 's actually a man who has just spent two years of his life living with a family of wild gorillas .
the character himself is n't very interesting -- he 's just an anthropologist who really likes gorillas -- but hopkins makes him interesting with subtleties both in speech and action .
gooding jr .
does strong work opposite hopkins , playing caulder as an intelligent and flawed individual .
the screenplay , written by gerald di pego and " suggested by " a novel by daniel quinn , gives us no background information on caulder , but that seems to be the point
( he has no time for friends because he 's obsessed with his work ) .
nonetheless , these two actors are essentially the entire list of things that are good about instinct .
unfortunately , filmmaking this inept can mangle the effect of even the best acting .
turtletaub and di pego are both guilty of instinct 's artistic failure , for they work together to make the dumbest , most cliche - ridden environment in which their characters are to live , and they do so by means of brainless subplots .
first , we have the prison warden subplot .
the prison warden is evil and wants to stop caulder 's progress at any cost ; if this means taking caulder off the powell case , then that 's fine .
there 's also the prison guard subplot .
the prison guard is played by john ashton ; the prison guard seems to enjoy mercilessly beating upon the psychotics under his supervision , and he 's instrumental in helping the story along to its obvious conclusion .
then there 's the daughter subplot , in which maura tierney ( playing the daughter ) must look very upset a lot of the time ; after all , she is the daughter of a deranged man .
if some of this stuff sounds familiar , that 's because they 're all devices that have been used and reused in countless other films .
the evil doctor in patch adams is not unlike the evil warden here .
the offensive caricatures of mental patients lack the depth that the similar portrayals in one flew over the cuckoo 's nest had .
ashton 's evil prison guard pales in comparison to clancy brown 's in the shawshank redemption .
hopkins ' performance will undoubtedly remind audiences of his turn in the silence of the lambs .
and then there 's the whole tarzan thing , which is more than a little bit obvious through the entire film .
perhaps what irritates me most about instinct is the half - hearted attempt at philosophical depth .
the message powell brings back from the wild is not a subtle one : he thinks that humans are " takers , " that they expand and kill and that we should all just live like gorillas .
i can sympathize with that , but only when it 's in a compelling film .
this is the kind of stupid movie -- just like patch adams -- in which a big group of characters ( psychotic inmates , in this case ) rise against the evil forces oppressing them by tearing up playing cards .
what does any of this have to do with a man who has just spent two years of his life with gorillas ?
if all the subplots of instinct had been left on the cutting room floor , we would have had a thirty - minute movie far superior to the two - hour one that i watched today .
if the central idea had been developed beyond the old man tarzan premise , then we would really have had something interesting -- a movie that does n't rely on the strength of its actors .
N

vannesa kensington : ` austin , do you smoke after sex ? '
austin powers :
` i do n't know baby , i 've never looked ! '
and so begins our journey into the most anticipated sequel of the summer season .
austin powers 2 , the sequel to the sleeper hit of 1997 , is filled to the brim with uproarious sight gags and lurid toilet jokes that will make you keel over with hilarity .
the mind of mike myers is obviously a very bizarre place .
myers returns as the swinging 60 's spy and his arch - nemesis , the bald headed dr .
evil , who is given much of the spotlight here .
there 's an early scene in which dr .
evil and his son scott ( seth green ) appear on a jerry springer segment entitled
` my dad is evil and wants to take over the world ' , hosted by springer himself .
most of these talk - show gags , spoofing everything from oprah to regis and kathie lee , are no longer as funny as they once were .
happily , this is an exception , especially when a fight breaks out between dr .
evil and the other guests .
( sample dialogue- ` come back here you mother # @%$^ ! !
you want a piece of me ? ' )
the audience was in stitches .
there are many good things about this sequel .
dr .
evil is now assisted by mini - me ( verne troyer ) , a pint - sized clone who is the result of an experiment gone awry .
mini - me is the most perfect new character that any fan could ask for , and troyer does a terrific job of mimicking everything that his big brother does , pinkie and all .
mindy sterling returns as frau farbissina , evil 's loud - mouth assassin sidekick , and here we are treated to a brief romantic liaison between the two in an underground bedroom chamber .
this works surprisingly well
.
afterward , there 's even a meeting at the coffee machine , where their awkwardness is expressed in a scene you would expect in any normal office environment .
oh , yes . . .
the plot .
after a short honeymoon with vanessa kensington ( elizabeth hurley ) that goes disastrously wrong , powers is back on the case to thwart the diabolical plans of dr .
evil .
in the original , the subject of the day was cryogenic freezing that enabled the characters to hop between two time periods .
here , it 's time travel .
dr .
evil has this crazy plan to steal austin 's mojo ( the source of his sexual powers ) , so he jumps through a time portal back into 1969 when powers is still is his freezing chamber .
there , he employs a grotesque 600-pound scottish assassin named fat bastard ( also myers ) to commandeer the mojo , so that our future hero is left completely shagless .
meanwhile , austin is informed of evil 's wrong - doing by basil exposition ( michael york ) , and is supplied with his very own time - traveling device in the form of a volkswagen beetle .
once back in 1969 , powers meets a foxy cia operative named felicity shagwell ( heather graham ) , and learns of dr .
evil 's plans to destroy washington dc with a lazer on the moon .
in one of the many uproarious jabs at star wars , evil calls the moon base a ` death star ' .
if there ever was a movie that knew from the start it was a complete joke , it 's austin powers : the spy who shagged me .
ap2 has many hilarious moments , much more so , than the original austin powers .
but what it does n't have is the confident support system that the first boasted , and the jokes are now more scattershot and hit - and - miss .
while myers has a knack for delivering clever , inspired gags , he sometimes does n't know when to call it quits .
the hilarious scene in the original involving mustafa ( will ferrell ) and his refusal to die is played out here in a disappointing and tired manner .
robert wagner , as dr .
evil 's # 2 man , has only one scene early on in the film , where he lacks all the focus of the character .
one nice surprise is rob lowe , as the young # 2 , who patterns wagner 's voice and movements right down to a tee .
there are more recycled jokes from the predecessor , including kristen johnston as ivana humpalot ( an unfunny rendition of alotta fagina ) .
but myers has clearly put so much dedication into this project , and many bits are side - splittingly funny .
do n't miss an extended visual gag in a tent , where the shadows leave much to the imagination . . .
. of the new characters
, graham does n't leave much of an impression .
her performance is merely okay , and she lacks the gung - ho enthusiasm that made elizabeth hurley so enjoyable before her .
and as for fat bastard . .
.
well , he provides one or two hilarious moments , but all of the obesity jokes and bathroom talk go too far .
but my most severe complaint : mr .
bigglesworth was only in one scene ! !
but , with gritted teeth , i managed to get over that .
this sequel will not leave fans disappointed ; it 's more often than not a laugh riot .
and , i look optimistically to the future , where i foresee more installments to the austin powers collection .
if myers can up the quota of fresh ideas , we should be in store for much more .
( c ) 1999 , jamey hughton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
jamey hughton ( 15 ) has written a weekly column in the starphoenix , saskatoon , sk since november , 1997 .
he was a 1999 writing finalist in the canadian ytv achievement awards .

P

