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Reviews
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Insipid and Insulting
I agree with the majority of the poster who find this entry deplorable. Disney had a goldmine with the Herbie series and they squandered it.
I think that staging racing scenes were probably too costly, so they cooked up the inane plot about saving Helen Hayes' firehouse. Ken Berry is an ineffective cuckold while Stephanie Powers is the one with brass balls.
Keenan Wynne's constant rage is off putting for parents and mad me uncomfortable as my son watched his unending bluster.
The two Dean Jones Herbie films are the best of the bunch. Skip this waste of time.
Stolen Summer (2002)
anti-semitic
Jones is a Jew basher.
He drinks with Mel Gibson and reportedly hangs with Mel at his Pre-Vatican II church in Malibu.
The man is dangerous.
Plus he is potentially slamming both Blacks and Mexicans by using the word "stolen" in the title of his movie.
But he could also be referring to the Republican party with his reference to stolen as well
I think the NAACP, Republican Party and La Raza should be alerted immediately to the subversive nature of the film.
I even wonder if Pete Jones is even his real name?
You have been warned.
The Shadow (1994)
love this film
John Lone is deliciously over-the-top and Alec Baldwin provides just the right menace as Lamont Cranston. The sets and period touches are nearly flawless. I've always thought Mulcahy to be an underrated director and his flourishes on the shadow reinforce my opinion.
The chemistry between miller and Baldwin is palpable, which sells their burgeoning psychic romance.
A strong supporting cast of peter Boyle, Jonathan winters, Tim curry, Ian MC Kellen and Andre Gregory is inspired. But it's lone's scene chomping, comic interplay with Baldwin that makes the film the above the two-dimensionality of it's pulp-page-perspective.
Aas disappointed that they didn't go the sequel route with the shadow.