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MEET THE FLINTSTONES Addy, Johnston, Krakowski, and Baldwin have a gay old time

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Rated: PG; Genre: Comedy; With: Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston and Jane Krakowski
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Mark Addy, the plump beefcake from ''The Full Monty,'' doesn't have the hefty personality of John Goodman, who played Fred in the 1994 ''Flintstones''; Addy's Fred is a big old sweetie pie. The rest of the road company cast in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas matches Addy's amiable blandness, and in a way that's a relief after the 1990s glut of features badly remade from old TV shows. With no headliners to raise hopes, this negligible entertainment has its own boneheaded charms.

A prequel to the previous, coarser film, it explains how brawny Fred won over Wilma (Kristen Johnston) despite the objections of her ''Dynasty''-gorgon of a mother (Joan Collins), and how dim Barney (Stephen Baldwin) shared stupidities with Betty (Jane Krakowski). Brian Levant directs again, from a script hacked by writers who deserve brontosaurus burgers for limiting themselves to just one gag involving dinosaur flatulence.


Posted May 05, 2000
 

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