Nebraskan Arts & Entertainment T
Monday, April 3,1989 *
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Not cute; ‘Police Academy 6* sucks, reviewers say
Shut Up and watcn the Movie is
written by Uisa Donovan, a junior
news-editorial major and Williaih
Rudolph, a sophomore English ma
jor.
L.isa Donovan: Police Academy 6
should really be called Police Acad
emy Sucks. It was bad to the bone.
William Rudolph: It did suck. Not
cute, not funny, not even likably
dumb -- u was horrible. Just plain
horrible. I’m sure the two other
people in the theater felt the same
way.
L.D: Employing the typical crime/
drama plot, the group of policemen/
women mastermind a way to stop the
evil Wilson street gang from robbing
everyone blind. If the characters
wouldn’t have attempted to be funny,
then the movie would have lasted 20
minutes instead of an hour and 20
minutes.
WR: And what a group of police
officers we have here: all the rejects
from all the old “Police Academy”
movies: I'acklcbcrry, the weapons
Ireak; Facklcr, the clumsy goof;
Hightower (Bubba Smith); Hobbs,
whocan’t speak above a whisper; and
everyone’s personal favorite, Com
mandant Lassard (George Gayncs).
Can they do the job? Arc you kid
ding?
LD: I think the biggest question is
WHO CARES. This movie had every
flaw -- it was obvious where the pro
duction people had spliced together
film, it was obvious that people flub
bed up lines and it was obviously not
humorous.
WR: I have this idea that the pro
ducers thought their ten-year-old
children would enjoy all the stupid
gags. What they forgot was that the
rest of us have already seen all the
gags in the other five episodes. For
instance, how many times is it going
to be funny to watch klutzy Facklcr
cause commotion just by walking
into a room? How many limes is it
going to make us scream watching
Bubba Smith knock his way through
walls? Mercifully, Hobbs didn’t say,
“Don’t move, dirtbag!” in this one.
That would have been too much.
LD: What do you mean? It was too
much. When I wasn’t running off to
the restroom, we were discussing
your idea to turn the State Theater
into a discotheque. It’s not a bad idea,
William, but going to this movie was
. . - we should have gone to a bar
like I wanted to.
WR: Now, Lisa, there is such a
thing as duty. “Police Academy 6“
taught me that. So you really do like
my idea? The State Theater people
should probably listen. Any more
movies like this one and they won’t
be able to fill another theater. 1 saw a
poster for an upcom ing Charles Bron
son movie in the lobby and I thought,
“Uh oh. They really don’t want to
make money, do they?’’ But enough
of that. There actually were a couple
of funny parts in “Police Academy
6.’’
LD: Five to be exact. And you
know what, William? We’re going to
share those with our readers. The first
was the Jimi Hendrix imitation. Oh,
my, I wish I wouldn’t have drunk that
entire Burger King Big Blast.
WR: Now don’t give it all away,
Lisa. We don’t want to spoil the
pleasure. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
funny moments were all the same
thing: while commandeering a bus,
one of the officers repeatedly Hies
into the windshield every time the
bus stops. I know that’s one of your
secret fears, Lisa.
LD: Seriously, I hate standing up
on a bus and it suddenly stops. And I
hate this movie. Don’t waste your
lime or money. Give both to charily.
You’ll thank yourselves and us.
Chevy amazes the senses in ‘Fletch Lives’
By Sarah Knight
Suit Reporter
With the exception of the first 20
minutes, Michael Ritchie’s sequel
“’Fletch Lives” proves surprisingly
good and far surpasses its predeces
sor, ’“Fletch.”
Chevy Chase returns as Irwin
Fletcher, an investigative reporter at
a Los Angeles newspaper. This time
he retires when he finds that he has
inherited a Southern plantation.
When he arrives in Louisiana, he
meets Calculus (Clcavon Little), a
Stepin Fetchil-type servant who
doesn't rightly remember much
about the Emancipation Proclama
tion.”
Alter one night in his newly ac
quired, dilapidated mansion, real cs
I—
late agent Becky Culpepper (Julianne
Philips) offers Flctch $250,000 for
the property.
Curious about why his seemingly
worthless land would bring such a
large price, Fletch begins an investi
gation.
Along the way Fletch encounters
town lawyer Ham Johnson (Hal
Holbrook) and televangelist Jimmy
Lee Farnsworth (R. Lee Ermey), as
well as finding romance and danger,
of course.
Chase’s performance amazes the
senses. I le takes hold of the audience
and shakes them by their funny
bones.
His deadpan, sarcastic attitude
adds the perfect comic touch as he
goes undercover, disguising himself
as all sorts of things, from Billie Jean
King, a Southern, hick bug-buster, to
Jim Harley, owner of Harlcy
Davidson motorcycle company.
Despite a slow start, the script is
hilarious in parts, including a parody
of Disney’s “Song of the South,”
with Chase singing - or rather lip
syncing - “Zip-a-dce Do Da” while
hundreds of extras dance joyfully in
the background.
There is a take-off on the Ku Klux
Klan, showing Klan members unable
to ligb*thc symbolic cross and having
Chase scare them away .by warning,
“Gene Hackman w ill kick your ass.”
The supporting actors are well
cast; Little, Ermey and Holbrook
furnish characters that epitomize the
stereotyped, back-woods image of a
small southern town.
Viewers who were bored by the
.
Sculpture films to be shown
The Sheldon Film Theatre will
present “Masters of Modern
Sculpture,’ ’ a three-part series that
locuscs on chief accomplishments
of 20th century sculpture.
The films, which start this
week, arc in conjunction with the
exhibition of Rodin bronzes from
the B. Gerald Cantor Collections at
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
The films, produced and di
rected by Michael Blackwood,
look nearly four years to make.
They were filmed in many world
wide museums, galleries, private
collections and in contemporary
sculptors’ studios.
Mark di Suvcro, who sculpted
“Old Glory,” the International
Orange I-beam sculpture in the
Ncihardt Memorial Prayer Gar
den, is in the film with other artists,
such as Isamu Noguchi, Joseph
Beuys, Miro and Henry Moore.
In addition, historic film foot
age, voice recordings and photo
graphs of early 20th century artists
are used, and works that arc no
longer accessible arc shown..
“Part I: The Pioneers” will
show Thursday, Friday and Satur
day. “Part II: Beyond Cubism” is
on April 13, 14 and 15 and “Part
III: The New World” will be fea
tured April 20, 21 and 22.
Screenings arc at noon on
Thursdays and Fridays and 11 a.m.
on Saturdays. The movies arc free
and open to the public.
first “Flctch” should still give
“Flctch Lives” a chance. The film is
cleverly written, using every cliche in
the hook and making it work.
“Flctch Lives” is rated PG-13 for
some foul language, violence and a
few adult situations.
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