The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 31

yririt a- fT- vum ''srv-'x The Miami Herald0000 Monday Dec 20 1982 Lively fly 7B 1 Jr red heat RETREAT WEST OPEN 1H3U12 A Fill 4 SAT TILL T-OO KM A less-than-playful 3 iTfiric 's -ft- IrTilftlA" '-f 'Mg -Mt 0 1 1 1 1 rIovia Review The Toy (PG) CAST Richard Pryor Jackie Gleason Ned Beatty Scott Schartz Teresa Ganzel Wilfrid Hyde-White An nazette Chase Tony King CREDITS Director- Richard Donner Producer- Phil Feldman Screenwriter- Carol Sobieski Based on the film 'Le Jouet' by Pranas Veber Cinematographer- LaszloKovacs Music Patrick Williams i Vi- ai' rv 'u Af '------r 11 -A- 1 SOUTH OADC WOMHCO ASTOR DADELAND $TV( AC0B4LW4T THIPlE 22J2482 JtliT OFF US At VMMST 29 90 PINES TRIPLE 04) MIAMI 8EACH LOEWS BAY HARBOR 01 94 ST JUST Of COLLINS 686 2441 ft 640WAE0 HOV'I UTV to TWft ThuHOEABMO 01 PT UUJOCKOALI HOUOA SPftHGt TWft C04A4 SPftNCS umjdeshiu cinema a laaesnchhoi Margate twin herceoe cinema towns rlantauon hum aim pompano IN PALM REACH HOvtEi AT fOWN CENTER OCA RATON CROSSCOUNTV WPS PEMOhOnE PINES CINEMA 1784 UNIyEMSiTT 4J2 HJ2 CHECK TIME CLOCK FOR SHOW TIMES y-- IStBi i-lEpfSiSft i SOI3WS3' Another World Another the Age of Wonder MATINEE EXCEPT SKYLAKE MON THRU SAT TIL 6 00 PM SUN 8 HOLIDAYS TIL 2 30 PM SENIOR CITIZENS 2 00 AT ALL TIMES Zm Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason: Toy Scott Schwartz who has a bad case of the Annie cutes Schwartz is adorable most of the time but he really act much he is seen to be giggling during most of his scenes and you get the impression that Pryor wants to strangle him A strangling might have made for more entertainment than the be-a-good-boy mush that takes up the last half of the picture The comedic tone of the rest of the film is indicated rather well by one of the early gags in which the family name being Bates a family retainer is forced to call him aysharbob ON 96lh St JUST Of COLLINS a 8667441 5 mi of jhe night PG TOOTSIE dustin hoffman PG LiJ 8 blocks west of isjki si 3 SHOP CENTER 6S1 2481 i TRA OP THE PINK PANTHER PG PG THE DARK CRYSTAl ijaWTITi'S 8lnoll or i07m J79311 By BILL COSFORD Herald Movie Critic Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor in the same movie ought to be worth something The very fact willing to work together ought to be worth something a hard-drinking fat man with his comic roots in Ralph Kramden the troglodyte bus driver who would have made Archie Bunker look like a liberal if TV had allowed those kind of jokes then opposite a black comedian whose intoxicant of choice has been cocaine and whose repertoire includes an array of viciously accurate impressions of foolish white folk Two energetic and wonderfully physical comedians each among the best of his generation But in their movie The Toy they do not amount to much Pryor seems unhappy about some of his lines and situations and well he might hard to know just what Gleason thinks as he is able to deliver even atrocious dialogue with a misanthropic zest that is always appealing but he has a right to be embarrassed too The Toy is a remake of a film of some years back by a French director named Francis Veber The idea is basic situation comedy a rich man is persuaded to a human toy for his spoiled young son thin stuff to begin with having nowhere to go but the inevitable moral lesson by which the toy shows the boy how to be unspoiled and hence requires plotting and dialogue of considerable wit For this the filmmakers substituted the obvious having a white man buy a black man And outside of a few moments early in the film when Pryor is establishing his black-man plight (he is nearly roughed up when trying to jump the job line at the neighborhood carwash) nothing here works There is much rolling of the eyes and much capering Pryor is made to dress up as a waitress and is hosed down by a fellow toy (a stuffed dog that wets) Gleason pounds about the rich mansion blustering at everything The story never gives him a consistent attitude about any of the other characters so he just stays mad most of the time In the middle is the spoiled kid played by a young actor named PG THE TOY R'Chard mon A A It OF THE PINK PA NTHER PG J0INA1EATTHE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AT VIZCAYA Distributed by Universal Pictures and Associated Film Distribution Corporation poj 1982 Universal City Siudios Inc FlDl Dolby stereo I' I SALKC1E6 IhCAIAIA NOW SHOWING! 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