Reviews

It is sad when such a great actor as Peter O'Toole seemingly will end his days in such terrible trash as this mess of a picture. The film suffers from a lousy script filled with enough filth to keep the vulgar minded happy! We suffer through vulgar scenes such as a doctor preparing his gloved hand for a rectal examine and O'Toole's legs twinging as he proceeds with the examination, making me wonder whether the director actually enjoys his rectal examines since he filmed the scene with such detail and precision.

This film is a jewel as an example of what is wrong with the culture of today. If it is watched as an expose on what our society has fallen to, it is bad enough. If on the other hand it is watched for enjoyment worse still.

O'Toole does a great job, as usual, bringing the dirty old man character to life but little else makes this film worth watching. One has to wonder why O'Toole would lower himself to such films. Perhaps it is true that film roles for older people are lacking but it would have been much better if he retired gracefully from the screen then to be seen in such miserable fare as this.

This last installment is not up to the original in several ways. It is not as funny, rather short on laughs, and the authors apparent political leanings are in your face evident! I assume because of the success of the first mini-series, The Beiderbecke Affair, Plater was emboldened to throw in his apparent extremist political beliefs into this one.

Jill calls her baby Carl after lovable Carl Marx. That's real normal if you're a communist! In the first series Big Al was hinted at being a communist calling everyone "brother" and I believe he even makes some out-and-out comments. Jane was suppose to be liberal and be a conservationist.

In this one she is an out-and-out communist and then makes several oxymoronic statements about being for "peace" and "democracy." Jill also dislikes the mere mention of morals, no wonder she's a communist! I'm sorry, but this was really a disappointment! Plater used this series to push his socio-political beliefs in the guise of a comedy mini-series.

This was a very well made documentary which exposes the truth behind the motives of the heavily biased Michael Moore. It factually unravels all the lies, and half truths that Moore used to create his unsuccessful propaganda film. (It would have been successful had Bush been voted out of office.) People who loved Moore's film probably don't care that it contains so many errors and false statements because their hatred is such that the truth does not matter. However, if you are a fair minded person and believed that Moore's film was all in all accurate then you may be very interested in watching this movie. It goes step by step through the distortions and lies and reveals how Michael Moore tried to subvert the truth by creating his own manipulated history of events to make President Bush look bad.

This film has interviews with people in the know who explain the truth and correct the blatant errors of Moore's film. It also shows excised film from footage that Moore used in order to put his own negative spin on events. The truth is revealed in the well made documentary.

I like Goldie Hawn and wanted another one of her films, so when I saw Protocol for $5.50 at Walmart I purchased it. Although mildly amusing, the film never really hits it a stride. Some scenes such as a party scene in a bar just goes on for too long and really has no purpose.

Then, of course, there is the preachy scene at the end of the film which gives the whole film a bad taste as far as I'm concerned. I don't think this scene added to the movie at all. I don't like stupid comedies trying to teach me a lesson, written by some '60's burn out especially!

In the end, although I'm glad to possess another Hawn movie, I'm not sure it was really worth the money I paid for it!