Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
When a screwball spoof is successful, it is stupid in an intelligent kind of way. Loaded Weapon 1 is just plain stupid. While a few of the quips and sight gags might elicit a mild chuckle...
Category: 1990s
Last Action Hero (1993)
Last Action Hero has always been a semi-guilty pleasure of mine, not because I’m ashamed to admit liking it, but because I actually think, unlike most critics, that it is a good and entertaining...
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
When their annoying mother leaves for two months, five precocious siblings are left under the care of an elderly, but quite authoritarian, babysitter, who, as the title reveals, ends up dead. Not wanting to...
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998)
Back in the days before Spider-Man, projects based on Marvel Comics characters were pretty laughable, to say the least, and the made-for-TV movie, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a prime example. Regardless of the casting, such...
The Rookie (1990)
Eastwood may be a well-respected director these days, crafting such Academy Award winners as Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby, but he has made a few duds in his time as well. Does anyone remember Firefox? True...
Fist of Legend (1994)
Fist of Legend is the updated remake of the classic Bruce Lee film, The Chinese Connection, this time starring Hong Kong superstar Jet Li. Lee’s are big shoes to fill for the diminutive Li, but if anyone...
Boomerang (1992)
The period of Eddie Murphy’s career between Coming to America in 1987 and The Nutty Professor in 1996 has always been considered a darker period, with Murphy struggling to retain his superstar status only to find commercial failure. ...
Addams Family Values (1993)
It might be a step down from the pleasure that was The Addams Family, but this sequel doesn’t miss too far off the mark. Although darker, with a more adult vibe (this one kicks the...
The Addams Family (1991)
One of the better big-screen adaptations of a small screen television show, The Addams Family, may not be entirely faithful in its adherence to the characters and humor of the TV show. Still, it...
The Craft (1996)
Robin Tunney stars as Sarah, a newly relocated Los Angeles high school senior that immediately becomes fast friends with three other similarly spiritual, misfit girls. The new clique is actually a young coven of...