"The bright colors and simple stories of classic superhero comics are the template for Zoom--none of that moody, bleak X-Men nonsense here. Retired superhero Captain Zoom (Tim Allen, The Shaggy Dog) gets pulled out of mothballs when the government decides to assemble a new team of super-powered kids. The motley quartet includes a herculean little girl (Ryan Newman), an invisible slacker (Michael Cassidy, The O.C. ), a telekinetic hot chi ..."
"Sportkolumnist Andy Farmer hat's geschafft. Mit 10.000 Dollar Verlagsvorschuß macht er sich mit seiner Frau Elizabeth auf, um in der Abgeschiedenheit des Provinznestes Redbud seinen ersten Roman zu schreiben. Aber nicht einmal der mörderische Asphaltdschungel von New York hätte sie auf das vorbereiten können, was ihnen hier blüht."
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the casino, along comes the Griswold family from the popular series of National Lampoon's Vacation movies, raising a ruckus in the now family-friendly gambling capitol of the world. Clark (Chevy Chase), the bumbling Griswold patriarch, gets into his usual quota of trouble--especially on a sightseeing trip to the Hoover Dam (where puns on the word "dam" come fast, furious, and idiotic). Mea ..."
"FOUL PLAY - EINE GANZ KRUMME TOURDEUTSCHE ERSTVERÖFFENTLICHUNG AUF DVD!INHALT:Die junge und attraktive Bibliothekarin Gloria gerät durch einen Anhalter, den sie mitgenommen hat, in finstere Machenschaften von religiösen Fanatikern, die es auf den Papst abgesehen haben.Erstes Opfer ist der unbekannte Anhalter, den die Bibliothekarin auf dem Heimweg von einer langweiligen Party mitnimmt.Dieser benimmt sich erst äußerst merkwürdig, um dann ..."
"PETE’S A PIZZA: (Narrated by Chevy Chase, Music by Raul Malo) When Pete is in a bad mood, his parents cheer him up by making a pizza with a very special ingredient -- Pete! DOCTOR DE SOTO: (Music composed by Ernest V. Troost) Doctor De Soto, everyone’s favorite mouse-dentist, helps a fox with a sore tooth. The fox has a mouth-watering scheme to eat him after the job is done. But Dr. De Soto has a plan of his own. THE AMAZING BONE: (N ..."
"Der Journalist Irving Fletcher, liebevoll Fletch genannt, macht völlig unverhofft eine Erbschaft. Doch kaum ist Fletch auf seinem neuen Besitz in Louisiana angekommen, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Er landet unter Mordverdacht im Knast. Man legt ihm nahe, das Städtchen wieder zu verlassen und macht ihm schließlich noch ein gigantisches Angebot für sein heruntergekommenes Erbe, um ihn los zu werden. Aber Fletch denkt nicht daran, die ..."
"A purely tasteless, moronic, guilty pleasure. Director HaroldRamis employs a mixture of Mad magazine/National Lampoon maturity and Saturday Night Live sarcasm in this goofball golf comedy set on the grounds of a posh country club. Somewhere buried in the slapstick antics, drug references, Marx Brothers-like insults, and gratuitous sex scenes are the intertwined, forgettable subplots of a poor caddie (Michael O'Keefe) trying to earn enou ..."
"Desaster-Dad Chevy Chase fällt in Schöne Bescherung selbst zur beschaulichen Weihnachtszeit von einer Katastrophe in die nächste. Kreischend komische Weihnachtskomödie mit Chef-Loser Chevy Chase in Höchstform! Die Griswold-Familiensaga erlebte mit dem 1989 entstandenen Schöne Bescherung unter den Fittichen des Comedy-Netzwerkes National Lampoon ihre bereits dritte Auflage. Erneut schlüpft der eindimensionale Antischauspieler Chevy Chas ..."
"Chevy Chase and Darryl Hannah star in and John (Halloween) Carpenter directs a lighthearted adventure: a Wall Street analyst becomes invisible after a lab accident, leading to complications both comic and romantic. Year: 1992 Director: John Carpenter Starring: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill"
"Vacation paved the way for the John Hughes movie dynasty of the 1980s. Written by Hughes (who would go on to write, direct, and/or produce "The Breakfast Club", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", "Uncle Buck", "Home Alone", and so on) and directed by Harold Ramis ("Caddyshack", "Groundhog Day", "Stuart Saves His Family"), the first "Vacation" movie introduces us to the all-American Griswold family: father Clark (Chevy Chase), mother Ellen (Be ..."
"After winning a tour package in a game show, the bickering Griswald family carve a trail of destruction through England (where they knock over Stonehenge), France, Germany, and Italy. Somehow Ellen (Bevery D'Angelo), the mom, gets kidnapped by gangsters, leading to a car chase that reunites the family, despite their differences. It's hard to believe that National Lampoon's European Vacation is only the second of the Vacation movies; it ..."
"Ah, those fun-loving Communists! In Ninotchka three Soviets make their way to Paris to sell off imperial jewels to raise money to buy tractors for the USSR. When Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), former owner of the jewels, discovers what's happening, she deploys her lover Leon (Melvyn Douglas) to recover her gems. He starts a court proceeding while seducing the three bumbling Soviets with the luxuries of capitalistic life. The delay of ..."