Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), February 10, 1990, p. 11

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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday February Page Entertainment Tremors is hardly earthshattering FLLMETER In Movie Theaters TREMORS Fifties horror flicks like The Thing and The Blob of ten offered an Irresistible blend of sil liness and suggestlveness As alien creatures took over small towns these movies played on para noia about the communist threat and other nuclearage anxieties Out of this campy Eisenhowerera tradition comes Tremors a scifi horror comedy set in the virtually de serted town of Perfection where two garbage collectors Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward discover a bunch of disgusting foulsmelling creatures that move beneath the de sert floor at rapid speed As the two men a student seismolo gist Finn Carter and two rabid valists Michael Gross of Family Ties and country singer McEn- take on these subterranean mon sters the movie mixes amusingly stilted dialogue cheerily cheesy spe cial effects and grossout shots of or ange from the monsters in nards spurting everywhere Theres a slightly hip edge as If the Ron Underwooddirected movie were trying to mock rather than just up date a 50s horror flick Yet the movie should be more fun than it is A lot of the comedy doesnt play and the horror isnt very scary The picture seems designed for pec- pie who like their schlock without any substance whatsoever Of the actors only Reba McEntlre comes through with any real gusto This viewers favorite bit When the humans discover how to polevault from boulder to boulder to avoid alerting their underground nemesis Nifty But the movies not much GRADE HEART CONDITION Three wonderful actors star in this comedy thriller about a racist vice cop who gets a heart transplant from his least favorite person a slick black lawyer who has had an affair with the cop former girlfriend The topnotch actors are Bob Hoskins Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the bigot ed hardliving cop Washing ton Glory as the devious well- GEORGETOWN CUSTOM CAR SOUND THE CAR STEBEO EXPERTS SINCLAIR AVE 8772425 DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS For Under 400 Across From GO Slalion 37 King St Georgetown 8773541 Winston in dressed lawyer and Chloe Webb Sid and Nancy as the girlfriend who la bors as a call girl A trio of talent And the movie gets off to a hot hardedged start too However after the heart trans plant takes place the film becomes downright whimsical with the now- dead lawyer returning to the scene as a ghost that only the cop can see Making his featurefilm debut writ- J KEVIN BACON stars as Val a Nevada handyman whose life is en dangered by horrifying underground monsters in Tremors James D Parriott juggles too many elements racial humor thrills even a trace of supernatural fantasy The tone grows uncertain and the picture settles for a predict ably violent climax Even the first- rate cast and some clever funky touches only make it borderline worthseeing GRADE New Home Video SEE YOU IN THE MORNING PG- 13 Warner Imagine a slack cross be tween a Woody Allen Upper East Side comedy and one of Alan Aldas VIDEO PLUS WmI of Gorflown Frull Morfct BRING HOME A STAR THIS WEEK Lesthal Weapon H Parenthood Another Chance Royal Rumble Rude Awakening Ministry of Vengence 134GuelphStUni8 Georgetown Ontario YELLOW CAB HALTON HILLS HOUR SERVICE SERVING HALTON HILLS j Airport Service Parcel Delivery 8732527 8732931 Coma Maple An Trafalgar Rd AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE MAIN ST S via- humanist pictures and youve got the gist of this portrait of secondtimearound among New Yorks Intellectual moneyed set Jeff Bridges stars as a psychiatrist who divorces his glamorous wife Farrah to marry a photog rapher Alice Krige inheriting Kriges children Drew Barrymore and Haas along the way The characters are too sensitive for words and the words that they do use are overly articulate and terish The only real reason to rent or buy this movie Is to watch Alice Krige whos lovely as always GRADE Film grading excellent good fair poor GEORGETOWN CINEMAS 235 GUELPH STREET 8731999 00EY GOOD TRYOURNEW DELIVERY SERVICE 308 Guelph SI 8731651 O HTH DIMS OF HILLS LTD 8771234 AIRPORT SERVICE 8779311 PARCEL DELIVERY BURGER Gui Georgetown STARTING FEB 5th KIDS CLUB Teenage Mutant Turtlei Collectible TU Of MAKE ANY OCCASION SPECIAL Reserve now lor 01 occasion NORMANDY 8731409 QUIKPIK rHQBETHAMACOMVEWEMCESTOBE OVER 2500 MOVIES 99 Including WEEKEND New Releases 99 Other 99 Cigarettes Pkg t Cigarettes cm Tobacco Can Milk DAY 2 tor

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