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- <text id=92TT0757>
- <title>
- Apr. 06, 1992: View Points:Cinema
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 06, 1992 The Real Power of Vitamins
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 69
- CINEMA
- Guilty by Reason of Inanity
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Nothing makes a moviegoer feel more isolated than sitting
- stony-faced through a comedy that makes the rest of the audience
- laugh and cheer. Am I blind? Or are they seeing things? With the
- new hit My Cousin Vinny, we vote for seeing things. This
- fish-outta-wautta farce plops a rude Italo-American (Joe Pesci)
- into the cracker barrel of an Alabama town to defend his cousin
- (Ralph Macchio) on a murder rap. Pesci, a vacuum-packed version
- of all Three Stooges, struts and mugs, but gets most of his
- laughs with his preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair by
- Anthony Sorrentino). Other good actors are strewn along the
- winding story line like road kill; the only exception is Marisa
- Tomei as Vinny's wondrously sardonic fiance. Tomei's pauses in
- her derision--"Oh. Yeah. You blend."--can melt even a
- critic's reserve. The rest of the proceeding is smug and
- labored, stretching jokes about mistaken identity and prison
- rape into endless tropes. So go ahead. Enjoy the
- rabble-truckling comedy of My Cousin Vinny. Just don't feel good
- about it.
- </p>
- <p>By Richard Corliss.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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