Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 94

e' the reel thing 4 MOVIE REVIEW WAYNE ON LOVE Garth: "What do you do if every time you see this girl you think you're gonna hurl?" Wayne: "I say hurl If you blow chunks and she stays she's yours But if you spew and she bolts it was never meant to be" Garth: "If she were a president she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln" Wayne: "In Latin they would call her Babia Wayne's idea of the new world order ----kt I tAltii -1 AA Prin' 4-) AN mititlQ 'L i -tr i'4 1i 4: t4 co: irlf i TOP MOVIES Last weekend Total Income Screens Income Weeks $85 million 1304 $85 million 1 $65 million 1759 $515 million 5 $64 million 1504 $64 million 1 $62 million 1229 $253 million 7 $37 million 1433 $117 million 2 $28 million 1645 $724 million 8 $25 million 1223 $24 million 7 $23 million 1580 $1064 million 13 $23 million 1351 $579 million 8 $21 million 1598 $1099 million 9 Source: Entertainment Data Movie 1 Medicine Man 2 HandRockstheCradle 3 Final Analysis 4 Flied Green Tomatoes 5 Shining Through 6 Father of the Bride 7 Grand Canyon 8 Beauty and the Beast 9 JR( 10 Hook 9 Wayne and Garth pay homage to beautiful babes in Wayne's World MOVIE IIEVIEV1 Wayne's World Rating: 6 on a scale of 1 to 10 Director: Penelope Spheeris Featuring: Mike Myers Dana Carvey Rob Lowe Tia Carrere Brian Doyle-Murray Lara Flynn Boyle Rated: PG-13 (lots of rude language adult situations and humor brief Cheese it! The mouse detective is on the way! By TODD CAMP FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM If you've noticed a severe escalation in the number of phrases like "NOT!" and "Excellent!" the source can be traced to a theater near you What did Bill Ted III come out? Not exactly Wayne and Garth Saturday Night Live's hip pair of high-school head-bangers whose fictional cable-access show has attracted throngs of fans finally have their own movie No way! Way SIVL has given us a wealth of talent but with the exception of Dan Aykroyd and Johrl Belushi's The Blues Brothers little of the actual show has ever made the transfer to the big screen Enter Wayne's World the flipped-out life of suburban rock 'n' roller Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and his faithful sidekick Garth (Dana Carvey) Exsqueeze me did someone say Wayne's World had a plot? Not! Well not much of one anyway The premise is simple: Wayne and Garth's cable-access show draws the attention ofa sleazy television executive who hopes to exploit it for his own good Rob Lowe recalls his good-looking troublemaker from Bad Influence (1990) as the conniving TV slime who's out to take both Wayne's show as well as his intended girlfriend on SNL are limited to Wayne's basement cablecasts the film strives to open up Wayne's world with occasionally brilliant touches capturing adolescent life in a small town In one scene Wayne and Garth lie on their car at the edge of an airport runway watching the planes But in spite of the bright spots the movie suffers from being based on an idea that was created for a five-minute joke on television When stretched to feature length Wayne and Garth's character flaws become more apparent making the flick more of a fans-only experience The film still has its priceless moments however the best of which comes from Wayne and his pals driving around town while singing along to Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (The comedic value of the scene defies description suffice it to say it's amusing for all particularly those who remember with embarrassment doing the same thing) i '1 4 40 oel-t ''-------s '7-:) 'Cll'I' '''('0 i :0:4 ''-It' 1l1 -4tft ci--: i 11 f' i 0 4 'A i -4-v 7 Tia Carrere is Wayne's love interest an independent Cantonese singer with aspirations to make it as a heavy-metal star Twin Peaks' Lara Flynn Boyle is Wayne's psycho ex-girlfriend who refuses to accept their breakup Supporting performances include Brian Doyle-Murray as a video-game merchant Donna Dixon as Garth's dream woman and shock-rocker Alice Cooper in a hilarious cameo revealing his knowledge of local history Myers does a competent job of acting for the camera proving his potential for future film ventures Carvey however appears kind of flat Where the pair's appearances Evil 'Inoustermind' Professor Ratigan is voiced by Vincent Price MOVIE REVIEW The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective Rating: 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 Directors: John Musker Dave Michener Ron Clements Bumy MattinSon Featuring: The voices of Vincent Price Barrie Ingham Val Bettin Rated: (family entertainment) A slice of everyday Austin life By MICHAEL PRICE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Vincent Price's greatest bogeyman performance? It's a tossup Maybe House of Wax in 1953 maybe The Pit and the Pendulum in 1961 maybe The Great Mouse Detective in 1986 Who says cartoon villains have to be merely laughable? Check out this weekend's reissue of The Great Mouse Detective an animated feature from the Disney organization's years of upheaval and you'll find Price thoroughly in his villainous element as a ratty Moriarty who fancies himself "the world's greatest criminal mind" Only the film's title has changed: Now they're calling it The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective the better to emphasize the film's homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great human detective Sherlock Holmes Though slim on plot Mouse Detective is a tremendously witty all-ages family film Characterization is rich and the film moves at a pace reminiscent of Blake Edwards' Pink Panther capers of the 1960s thanks largely to a memorable musical score by longtime Edwards collaborator Henry Mancini This film also is essential to an understanding of more recent Disney breakthroughs The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast Far more so than the uneven The Black Cauldron (1985) MouseDetective renewed the studio's enthusiasm for cartoons at a time of uncertainty Jeffrey Katzenberg had just become chairman bringing an aggressive new attitude to a studio that had grown stodgy and uncompetitive since the death of Walt Disney in 1966 Mouse Detective adapted Slacker Rating: 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 Directoc Richard Linklater Rated: PG-13 (mature subject matter occasional violence language) By MICHAEL PIKE FORT WCRTH STAR-TELEGRAM It's major rediscovery time at Fort Worth's Ridglea Theatre where the attraction of the moment is a made-in-Austin film called Slacker New attraction old favorite Well not all that old but Slacker has been accumulating admirers since 1990 when it played Austin's Doble Theatre and Dallas' USA Film Festival before landing a national distribution deal Made during 1989 on a $23000 budget by Richard Linklater Slacker unreels in a mock-documentary style Its characters remain on screen just long enough to leave peculiar impressions The film catches up with one enterprising soul just as she is practicing a sales pitch: A gynecologist friend in Hollywood has supplied her with a Pap smear from so she says a famous rock 'n' roll diva and this item is just what every Madonna fan must own Elsewhere an elderly man catches an armed burglar red-handed but instead of calling the police he treats the hoodlum to a tour of Austin's stranger landmarks "This town has always had its share of crazies" he declares with all the enthusiasm of a Chamber of Commerce booster Linklater 30 says Slacker has served to capture 0 CO from the Basil of Baker Street tales by Eve Titus and Paul Gal-done concerns a plot to kidnap London's master toymaker Holmes-like detective Basil (voiced by Barrie Ingham) must thwart the evil Professor Ratigan (Price) Their conflict climaxes in a breathtaking battle among the meshing gears of Big Ben's clock tower The voices are just right especially those of Price suave-spoken Ingham and as Basil's Dr Watson-styled partner Val Benin In a nod to the best-remembered Sherlock Holmes features of the 1930s and '40s Basil Rath-bone is heard briefly as the master sleuth whom the mouse detective strives to emulate "many of those little things that happen to you that are kind of interesting but that you think will never find form in anything" What "form" he has found is pleasingly formless LinIdater's camera prowls his West Campus Austin neighborhood in search of characters who seem so grateful for an audience they betray themselves as benign goofs deranged flakes sinister intellectuals paranoid weirdos and even a homicidal practical joker By using mostly non-actors and directingthem past the stage of self-consciousness Lin achieves a lifelike urgency Though all the sequences seem candid they were actually rehearsed Link later discouraged improvisation "I wanted it to seem like you're just walking around town for a day" he says "You'd hang out with someone they'd leave you goon It's like the camera is the mind" A 14 1 4 at I ER6 dr- IF 8 10.