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Rated: PG; Genre: Comedy; With: Phil Hartman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad

JINGLE ALL THE WAY Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman (1996, FoxVideo, PG, $19.98) We're supposed to laugh at the mere sight of Schwarzenegger as a pratfalling dad on a Christmas Eve quest for a sold-out ''Turbo Man'' doll. But Arnold crashes through toy stores like a Humvee in a china shop, and his Teutonic accent does the same thing to the silly dialogue. When in doubt (which is often), the filmmakers let him fall back on punching out a bogus Santa or a charging reindeer. By the time they've built to a slam-bang F/X finale -- with Schwarzenegger zooming through the air in a Turbo Man jet pack -- the comic premise seems like the ghost of Christmas past. Don't give this crassly calculated dreck as a gift, unless you plan to put it under a plastic tree. D


Posted Oct 31, 1997
 

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