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Coasting on the successes of
f1i Gods and Monsters
f0i0 and
f1i George of the Jungle
f0i0 , Brendan Fraser turns in yet another winning performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy in which Pleasantville meets modern-day Los Angeles, with predictably funny results. Fraser stars as Adam, who was born in the bomb shelter of his paranoid inventor dad (a less-manic-than-usual Christopher Walken), who spirited his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek, in fine comic form) underground when he thought the Communists dropped the bomb (actually, it was a plane crash). Armed with enough supplies to last 35 years, the parents bring up Adam in
f1i Leave It to Beaver
f0i0 style with nary any exposure to the outside world. When the supplies run out, and dad suffers a heart attack, Fraser goes up to modern-day L.A. for some shopping and long-awaited culture shock. More of a cute premise with lots of clever ideas attached than a fully fleshed out story,
f1i Blast from the Past
f0i0 is also supposed to be part romantic comedy, as the hunky Adam hooks up with his jaded Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and tries to convince her to marry him and go underground. The sparks don't fly, though, because Silverstone is saddled with the triple whammy of being miscast, playing an underwritten character, and suffering a very bad hairdo. Fraser, however, carries the film lightly and easily on his broad, goofy shoulders, mixing Adam's gee-whiz innocence with genuine emotion and curiosity; only Fraser could pull off Adam's first glimpse of a sunrise or the ocean with both humor and pathos. Also winning is Dave Foley as Silverstone's gay best friend, who manages to make the most innocuous statements sound like comic gems.
f1i --Mark Englehart
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| upc: |
794043475122 |
| title: |
Blast from the Past |
| theatricalDate: |
12-02-1999 |
| stars: |
Brendan Fraser
Alicia Silverstone |
| purchase date: |
17-02-2005 |
| publisher: |
New Line Home Entertainment |
| published: |
02-11-2004 |
| price: |
$14.97 |
| net Rating: |
4.31 |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 |
| last lookup time: |
130402064 |
| genre: |
Feature Film-comedy |
| edition: |
DVD |
| director: |
Hugh Wilson |
| currentValue: |
$9.00 |
| created: |
130402064 |
| aspect: |
Color
Closed-captioned
DTS Surround Sound
Widescreen
Dolby |
| asin: |
0780626494
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