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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
This raucous parody of bodies-through-the-plate-glass-window action flicks has been made in a slavish but pedestrian imitation of the Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker (''Airplane!'') house style. It's got the relentless, five-gags-a-minute pace. It's got a couple of deadpan stars (Emilio Estevez and Samuel L. Jackson) going through the motions of a Hollywood plot and a famously terrible actor (William Shatner, as the villain) devising new ways to mug on camera. What the film doesn't have is a trace of the aggressively referential, out-of-left-field nuttiness that has made ZAZ the media-age inheritors of Marx Brothers surrealism.
Posted Feb 19, 1993
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