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Pittsburgh Press, Oct. 3, 1 980 A-1 5 Oh God, Book II' 1 Volume Too Many UJATCC3 FOR CW.1A WORLD nOQVJII HILLS ROUTE 30 EAST By' ED BLANK Press Drum Editor God says got instead of tare or snst He says uuous in a context where eager a more proper. But he's unlikely to find the dialogue assigned him in "Oh, God, Book II" as pi I I TO. Ml KKTBG. OWBAGUYBSt-v Ik.

-WDB A PARAMOUNT PICTURE MMU 'A THESE ARE THE VSlT ARMIES OF Rw 712 night 7S vvlJ 7oni9 they're all out t0 set theWarriors- xn oojecuooame as the 'picture, itself, which opens today at Showcase East, West and North, plus the Cbeswick, Chatham and Village. It's artless, witless and woeful a sequel singularly unworthy of its disarmine ore- 1 iujxv.jAgf x' I 'II T0HI0HTIT0M0BB0W iT MIDNtQKT wm.wm mm Heads it's it's Phil. i CfcK wM A SID AND MARTY KROFFT PRESENTATION AROflERTCCKHtR ANDRONALDCOHEN PROOUCTION BRUCE DERN ANN-MARGRET MIDDLE AGE CRAZY Original Music MATTHE McCALUY Co-Producer JOHN ECKERT Additional Songs BURT BACH ARACH and CAROLE BAYER SACER Ewcutw Producers SID AND MARTY KROFFT Produced by ROBERT COOPER AND RONALD COHEN HI I I Directed bv X)HN TRENT INPAIHII. irinuil ScrtennU by CARL KLEINSCHMITT lire EXCLUSIVE OSCAG3VaTT HUE PHIL in CENTURY-FOX FILMS MICHAEL ONTKEAN 'j EXCLUSIVE ESC A CEMENT (iTn I AT HI, 411, Ml 111:01 BLUE DR. IN It.

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IN Rt. 88 NOW SHOWING LOUANNE decessor. The only connection between the films is George Burns, again playing God but this time relegated to supporting-role status. Intead of John Denver, so likable a Jimmy Stewart-type in tie original, we get ai aggressively cute child actress named simply Lobubc. In one respect she's like someone from a 1970s Disney comedy: She talks and behaves like no child you've ever met (Almost no one who writes or directs movies has any idea what makes real children lovable, so we get mainly precocious, saturated sugar substitutes.) Burns materializes for Louanne, charging her to spread his word.

She cooks up a Think God campaign, enlists classmates to plaster its key phrase all over town, gets suspended from school for ber effort and assigned to an out-of-town school offering psychiatric care. The story and its treatment are stupid beyond belief. Louanne's classmates, who seem to be anywhere from 7 to 11 yean old, organize a professional-looking picket line and win national TV coverage, which Hugh Downs covers and Dr. Joyce Brothers comments upon. It's very difficult to connect with anything happening in "Book II" because characters and situations are treated so The original was thoughtful, amusing, touching and even a bit inspirational "Book fi" is lower than most pilots for TV sitcom.

Cai yoa believe God Imposes his will oa a child to get a quick laugh from aidknces? Or that he violates traffic laws by traveling at high speed with a child passenger? Or that an elderly Oriental-American Taday at 1JJ, 7:41, IMO 1 11.10 BOO CIXCONt AND iHXJSf FILMS INTtRNATKINAL ITU 51 NT GEORGE BURNS Film's God violates speed limit couple agrees to hide Louanne from her parents and everyone else because their 11-year-old grandson asks them to? Or that Louanne's parents, Suzanne Plesbette and David Birney both of tbem bright and assertive will be such dunderheads in assessing the school principal, the farcical psychiatrist and their daughter's behavior? And Louanne is assigned a lot of presumably adorable one-line vernacularism about a large-chested woman. Look, if you're enjoying the movie somehow anyway, such nonsense probably won't bother you. For me it adds insult to what is already excruciatingly coy. "Book II," the work of five screenwriter! and director Gil Cates, coalda't amuse even if it were about Saata Claas or the Easter Bunny. Ironically, if it were about them, the breast Jokes wouldn't have been used.

A far more charming comedy about a little girl with a vision, "Angels in the Outfield," was made here 30 years ago and is shown on TV regularly. God, Book II" is rated PC lor language.) MA VIMS MH) 12th a rrj irii WEEK! ooo Matthdu and Jackson are an unbeatable treat. I suggest you hop to it." Gene Shalit, NBC-TV, Today Show CNAGULA 'mumamnm huasosq oostpasumcn Terror Train7 On Wrong Track "It will tickle your funny bone and catch your eye." I Speeiil Etgigtmtal I It 4:11, 7:30 4 19:15 NO PASSfS ACCtPTID 3M fifth Rona Barrett 'I $nUPWUFPP IN TIME foVgiV WOOD ST 35S-0IO4 At 3iOO. 4iQ0. 6Q0.

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Without style. Without suspense. Withoat any interest in them personally. T.Y. Drake wrote arid Roger Spottiswoode directed, confident that with very little effort they can milk the youth market before "Terror Train" takes a quick trip to TVs late, late show.

('Terror Train" is rated for Mil MIMA 3uO OH, GOD! BOOK II 361-1001 1. Ai 60. MX) 1 10 00 M. IPG By ED BLANK Press Drama Editor "Terror Train." A neat name A nothing movie. It's at the Fulton, Cinema World, McKiight, Eastland, Showcase West, Cbeswick and Cinemette South.

Here we go again. A fraternity pledge becomes psychotic after being tricked into smooching with a corpse. Some time later that is to say, in the next scene several fraternity rowdies board a train with tarts in tow for a costume party of indeterminate length. Tie plctire doesn't say where they're going, or whether it's a roud trip or whether ifs jut overnight or bow at least two tnwelcome goests obtained passage to a private wingding. CHATHAM CENTER WILUE A PHIL AI 1M.

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