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Blast From the Past
Movie Stats & Links |
Starring: |
Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher
Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley |
MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
Released By: |
New Line
Cinema |
Web Site: |
www.blastmovie.com |
Kiddie Movie: |
It's kinda cute, but more a teen/adult film. |
Date Movie: |
Bring her along. |
Gratuitous Sex: |
Nope. |
Gratuitous
Violence: |
A funny fight in the bar between Adam and Eve's
old boyfriend. |
Action: |
Nope. |
Laughs: |
Some funny things, but there could have been
more. |
Memorable
Scene: |
Adam swing dancing and picking up chicks in the
bar. |
Memorable
Quote: |
Adam to Troy as he's leaving: "Thanks for always
being happy."
Troy: "Huh?"
Eve to Troy: "Gay." |
Directed By: |
Hugh Wilson |
Produced By: |
Renny Harlin, Hugh Wilson
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Blast From the Past
A Movie Review |
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Sometimes a movie is hilarious,
sometimes a movie makes you cry, and sometimes a movie is
just cute. "Blast from the Past" had the potential to be all
three, but unfortunately didn't hit on any of them.
The story kinda goes like this: back in the '60s, Calvin
(Christopher Walken), an offbeat scientist, and his wife
Helen (Sissy Spacek), who was pregnant at the time, headed
to their fallout shelters of all fallout shelters when
Calvin thought that the world was being attacked by the
Russians. Oddly enough it was just that a plane had fallen
onto their house. Adam (Brendan Fraser) is born and spends
30ish years growing up listening to Perry Como, watching
"The Honeymooners," and living in a world constantly stuck
in the traditions of the early 60's. Well, 30ish years
later, when they figure all is better, Calvin heads up to
the surface to see if things are safe and maybe get some
provisions. Well, Calvin gets the shit scared out of him
because where their house used to be there's now a very
scary bar, hookers, an adult bookstore, people eating out of
the garbage, and people throwing up on the street. Heading
back to the security of his fallout shelter, Calvin relates
the scary-ness of the world above him to his family. But
Calvin gets sick, and mom knows that they need supplies, so
she sends Adam up to the surface to find a grocery store and
hardware store to get enough food and supplies for the next
30 years. Adam wants to go up their too, but basically to
find a chick.
So, up on the surface, armed with 30 year old baseball
cards and stocks that are worth millions, Adam gets to
experience a world of the '90s when he grew up in the '60s.
Well, he finds a friend in Eve (Alicia Silverstone), who
agrees to help him get the supplies he needs, for little bit
of cash, and she ends up falling in love. Adam falls in
love, too, but he doesn't think that Eve loves him, so he
still needs to find a wife. Well, Eve takes him to a bar,
where one of the funniest scenes in the movie takes place.
Oddly enough, this scene has Adam living his 1960s life in
the 1990s, but dancing in a bar based on the '40s.
Well, that's about all I'll bore you about the plot. It's
pretty simple, and can be pretty funny, and could probably
make you cry, and could be really cute, but no, the movie I
think tried to do all three instead of concentrate on one.
Don't get me wrong, I think it'd be a nice matinee film,
or a nice one on the couch on video, but the movie didn't
click for me all of the way through. Adam didn't seem that
impressed that Eve's radio had a digital display and could
change channels at the push of a button, we didn't get to
see Adam amazed at the personal-computer in Troy's (Dave
Foley as Eve's gay, roommate), room, let alone search the
Internet for porn. No, a lot of those jokes were just hinted
at, and sort of left up to the imagination, but on this
afternoon I didn't want to imagine, I wanted the comedy
thrown right in my face.
Brendan did a good job as Adam, with the goofy grin and
quirky attitude, not really understanding the ways of the
'90s, and Alicia as Eve, well she wasn't bad either (and I
just love her smile). But, for me, the movie took too long
for Adam to get out of the fallout shelter and into the
world above him, and in doing so, there wasn't the time left
in the movie to develop the love story as good as a could
have, hit on as many of the jokes as it could have, or maybe
even teach Adam that the world of the '90s can be just a
little bit more dangerous than the world of the '60s.
So, should you spend your money? Well, I give the movie 2
1/2 stars out of 5. I think it could have been a lot better,
but it was kind of cute.
That's it for this one, I'm The Dude on the Right!
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