Mr. Magoo . Tucson Weekly . 01-12-98

Mr. Magoo

DIRECTED BY: Stanley Tong

REVIEWED: 01-12-98

Imagine humor-blind filmmakers playing "pin the comedy on the movie" and you've got Mr. Magoo. Watching Leslie Nielsen act like a jackass while squinting is almost as fun as a trip to that optometrist whose halitosis fills your nostrils every time he says "Better or worse?" A blind person who mistakenly walked into Amistad would find more laughs. Director Stanley Tong, a veteran of Jackie Chan action movies, whisks us from misused comedy setup to misused comedy setup as if desperately channel-surfing: Click. I wish Jackie Chan were here. Click. Where's Jackie?! Click. I have no idea what I'm doing. Click. Malcolm McDowell sure looks like Fife Symington. Click. Oh my god this isn't funny. Click. JACKIE!!! Click. Maybe if I go faster nobody will notice how bad this is. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. The film's only assets are Kelly Lynch, as a butt-kicking vixen/villain who changes disguises every other scene (at one point she looks like Mrs. Doubtfire); and Angus the bulldog, who's obviously too talented for this movie and should get his own feature alongside the pooch in As Good As It Gets.

--Woodruff

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