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  DVD: Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

  I rate this titleonand give it3.0

  Respectful Magoo treatment of Dickens, fun for kids.

  The Jule Styne songs aren't terribly catchy, the line-art animation is coloring-book simplistic, and Bob Crachit looks like George Jetson. Still, for the ...

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  DVD: Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

  I rate this titleonand give it4.0

  Early Muppet TV special with warmth, tunes, critters.

  It's lower on the slapstick/action register than a lot of kiddie movies, and in fact one can practically imagine the whole tale done with live actors and human characters -- without significant ...

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  DVD: Waterworld

  I rate this titleonand give it3.0

  Seagoing sci-fi swashbuckler fun despite bad reputation.

  Like the 1963 Cleopatra, this ecologically-tacking sci-fi flick become a symbol of Tinseltown waste and epic ego, as the original director left the production and the budget ballooned way over ...

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  Movie: Johnny Tremain (1957)

  I rate this titleonand give it3.0

  Decent complement to the classic children's novel.

  This was originally supposed to be a two-part Disney TV movie, but went into theatrical release instead. Done with Disney's usual high standards and even one musical number, it's a decent, ...

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  DVD: Scrooged

  I rate this titleiffyand give it2.0

  Dated comedy is part Ghostbusters, part Dickens.

  SCROOGED is a head-on crash of two family faves, A Christmas Carol and Ghostbusters, neither one quite winning out. Some early

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  DVD: Arachnophobia

  I rate this titleiffyand give it4.0

  Creepy/clever creature feature with touches of humor.

  Hailing from Steven Spielberg's production company, with a touch of the Gremlins vibe of little monsters doing big damage, ARACHNOPHOBIA is an undeniably ...

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  Movie: Sorority Row

  I rate this titleiffyand give it1.0

  Satirical shadings can't save sorority slasher schlock.

  A remake of the obscure 1983 horror film House on Sorority Row, SORORITY ROW stands out mainly for the cynicism involved -- and not just that of filmmakers who are commercially peddling ...

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  DVD: Teen Wolf (1985)

  I rate this titleonand give it3.0

  Cheesy '80s comedy still works thanks to Fox-y star.

  Some horror-movie reference books don't even list TEEN WOLF, and no wonder. Michael J. Fox makes one of the least menacing monsters ever, in what is really a good-natured spoof of adolescent ...

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  DVD: The Room (2003)

  I rate this titleiffyand give it1.0

  Cult-phenom amateur melodrama best left to adults.

  By now every movie fan knows -- and many love -- Ed Wood, the bizarre actor-writer-director who, in his 1950s heyday, concocted inept little horror films, crime dramas, and exploitation movies ...

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  DVD: The Witches of Eastwick

  I rate this titleonand give it3.0

  Satan vs. BFF feminism in grownup fantasy-comedy.

  Sorcery elements in THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK may attract teens, but this is a more or less grownup fairy tale, heavy on the pillow talk and the dating/mating/relating satire, at least until a  ...

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  DVD: Weird Science

  I rate this titleiffyand give it3.0

  Guilty-pleasure '80s horny-geek sci-fi sex comedy.

  Adolescents flocked to it, while critics hated WEIRD SCIENCE, from writer-director John Hughes, whose 16 Candles,

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  DVD: The Apartment

  I rate this titleonand give it3.0

  Vintage comedy about sex in the city feels dated.

  THE APARTMENT was a multi-award winner, perfectly cast from the top down, with Jack Lemmon sublimely conflicted as the passive and unassertive C.C. Baxter, a most untypical movie "hero." ...