Tucson Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • 64

Page 6 Tucson CitizenThursday June 28 1984 Inside joke wears far too thin in this sequel By JOHN LANKFORD Citizen Movie Critic re-enacting World War II on the back patio Whatever tiny spark of life that made the first work at all is missing in action here The story is lame there is no direction the editing is sloppy I could go on and on with this as you can well imagine But this horse is already down and out my puny efforts to finish it off would seem cruel bet this is one film Shirley MacLaine see After the best performance by an actress in last of Endearment" she must be a wee bit embarrassed about this Burt Reynolds of course has no shame A word about the locale: great stunning beautiful breathtaking perfect paradise Tucson Go see this movie if you feel like a couple of hours of nonsense or if you just have to have some theater popcorn go for any other reason be sooooorrrrryyyy Run opens tomorrow at the El Con and Foothills Mall theaters be thankful for in this case is that a film be tried twice for the same crime Run is another of Hal inside jokes Hal you may recall is the former Hollywood stuntman who has turned to producing and directing films that are mostly unburdened by intelligence I mean this in an insulting way the truth is that Needham probably hits just the target he is aiming for in these fast carsfaster womenreal men features meets that test I attended the world premiere of last Saturday night At the sold-out benefit showing (to help the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind) Tucsonan Lee Marvin was asked to make a few remarks He joked that he was perhaps the only star in Hollywood who was not invited to take part in the film Later as the movie unfurled on the screen I feel certain that Lee was thinking to himself: Dodged another The movie is a real stinker While the original had the advantage of newness and a measure of spontaneous fun this latest issue relies on the names and the names only for box office appeal I imagine anyone seeing this film and then recommending it to a friend For the record the has an Arab offering a million bucks to whoever can win a cross-country car race The same teams that set out in the original film are more or less intact here Also for the record the big stars are Burt Reynolds Dom DeLuise Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr Jamie Farr Marilu Henner Telly Savalas and Shirley MacLaine And yet another also-for-the-record the other stars are Susan Anton Catherine Bach Foster Brooks Sid Caesar Jackie Chan Tim Conway Tony Danza Jack Elam Michael Gazzo Richard Kiel Don Knotts Ricrado Montalban Jim Nabors Louis Nye Molly Picon Charles Nelson Reilly Alex Rocco Henry Silva Frank Sinatra Joe Theisman Mel Tellis and Abe Vigoda It looks like the entire cast from three years of of the Network something about an inside joke that turns most people off unless of course you happen to be one of the people on the inside When I saw a couple of years ago I had it figured out almost immediately: here was the Hollywood version of the inside oke a film thin of plot and essentially scriptless populated by dozens of stars mugging for the camera lots of Ferraris Porsches and other exotic cars many beautiful women and about 110 minutes of car chase scenes Perfect No pretense Pure simple-minded escapism And it worked The original while only mildly entertaining made a bundle of money enough to spawn a sequel which opens at Tucson theaters tomorrow Unfortunately the sequel fails to live up to the meager promise of the original which is almost criminal The only thing to 0 5-ei AJLTOIOtM PJL DAILY FRL I SAT TILL 3-09 AIL RED BULL 7210 22ND ST FAMILY DINING ADOBE Tmnrapcsr CLOSE-OUT SALE ALL PRINTS and PAINTINGS 20 to 50 off 4036 Grant Rd 327-3645 886-9036 MR CATFISH FEATURING ALL YOU CAN EAT! 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