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CALENDAR WEEKENDLOS ANGELES E8 FRANCHISE PICTURES Presents A ARTISTS Production A ROB REINER Film KATE HUDSON LUKE WILSON SOPHIE MARCEAU DAVID PAYMER Producers JOSEPH MERHI JAMES HOLT Music MARC SHAIMAN Producers PETER GUBER JEFFREY STOTT JASON BLUMENTHAL STEVE TISCH Produced ROB REINER JEREMY LEVEN ALAN GREISMAN TODD BLACK ELIE SAMAHA Written JEREMY LEVEN Directed ROB REINER FROM ROB REINER THE DIRECTOR OF HARRY MET Co- Executive By By By By www.alexandemmamovie.com America Online Keyword: Alex and Emma Copyright 2003 Alex and Emma Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. America Online Keyword: Alex and Emma www.alexandemmamovie.com Moviefone.com WESTWOOD Mann Daily 11:00 AM 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:45 PM $3.00 parking after 6:00 PM in Parking $1.00 refunded with paid admission after 6:00 PM. HOLLYWOOD at Sunset Vine On 2 Screens Thurs 1:45 4:15 7:20 9:45 PM (On 1 Screen) 4 hours free validated parking with ticket purchase. CENTURY CITY AMC Century 14 On 2 Screens Mon-Thurs 12:15 2:40 5:05 7:35 10:05 PM Daily 12:45 3:20 6:35 9:15 PM 3 hrs free parking.

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By Charles Solomon Special to The Times and are rarely linked in the United States, where the medium has been stereotyped as a mindless entertainment for children. The juvenile cartoonprograms premiering on the New TNN(the network that is wrangling to re- identify itself as Spike TV) the Ren and Stimpy Adult Party and are suppos- edly made for an adult, male audience. But these shows are only in the sense that you want kids watching them. Kelsey Grammer provides the voice for Gary Andrews, a rich Wall Street attorney who has somehow been transformed into a 6-foot rat (although his head looks more like a German Like the premise, the first episode, the is little more than a mean-spirited cheap shot at such obvious targets as lawyers and tobacco companies. The ani- mation, done in the Internet ani- mation program Flash, is so stiff and limitedit makes Saturday morning kid-vid look lavish.

Ren and Stimpy Adult Party presents six new adventures of the wheezy Chi- huahua and thick-witted cat that were too gross for their ini- tial run. The duo has apparently shrunk, as they can nowlive in the mouth of a sleeping skid row wino or a bar room spittoon. The and episode suggests that jokes about bodily fluids, bouncing buttocks and weird sexuality constitute the se- stock in trade. avail- able for preview, but the effortful animation of a Pamela Anderson caricature doing grinds and bumps in the title sequence look promising. If gags about boogers, excre- ment, vomit, cuspidors, testicles, belching, sex and child molesta- tion are what the average man really wants to watch, a pretty dismal commentary on the gender always enjoyed belonging to.

Animation can be used for entertainment that is adult in the true sense of the ing interesting and difficult ideas in ways that cross boundaries of age, culture and nationality. John and Faith Hubley won an Oscar for (1962), in which two construction workers discuss the possibilities of nu- clear war; they garnered addi- tional awards for (1964), an examination of the causes of war, and (1970), adialogue between Death and Mother Nature about overpopu- lation. Isao of the (Japan, 1988) de- picts the suffering of a brother and sister amid the firebombing of Tokyo during World War II with heart-rending poignancy. Animation have to be serious to qualify as In the hilarious (Can- ada, 1978) by Janet Perlman and Derek Lamb, an absurd little man experiences all seven bler-Ross stages of accepting death when he learns he only has seven minutes to live. (Watching is a bit like listening to Susan Sontag on fast-for- ward.) Back (Canada) and Hayao Miyazaki (Japan) have used warmth, gentleness and beauty to present ecological con- cerns in their Academy Award- winning films, while Bruno Boz- zetto spoofed the excesses of the oil industry with mosquitoes in the mordant (Italy, 1974).

Hideo Annoemploys a constantly shifting array of graphic styles to suggest the loopy un- certainty of teenage relation- ships in and Her (Japan, 1998). Because he fell into a cursed spring in China, the wiry martial artshero of the 1 2 programs and features (Japan, 1989), turns into a buxom red- haired girl when splashed with cold water. This popular slapstick comedy includes sly commentaries on traditional sex roles that range from fractious relationship with his Akaneto an aged teach- insatiable fetish for underwear. Many anime series include so- called shots of scantily clad girls, and buxom heroines fighting crime and alien invaders before the New TNN unveiled For sheer sexist silliness, hard to beat Up (1997), a comedy-adventure about a four- womanTokyo Police Warrior Team. The series includes an on- screen that enu- merates the number of times each breasts bounce.

animation can be moving, thought-provoking, silly and uproarious.It should always be more entertaining than the New lineup. TELEVISION REVIEWS not fit for an adult The New cartoon lineup features shows too childish for grown-up minds. Why is that? Images courtesy of the New TNN AND The grumpy Chihuahua and his gullible feline friend return to prime time in Party THE Kelsey Grammer supplies the voice of the title character..