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Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke going through the motions just to reach the end. ometimes it seems filmmak- What made Trainspotting so ers forget that for a dark corn-. affecting and funny was its insane edy to succeed, it should be menagerie of characters, each not only mean-spirited and lively and memorable in his own surly, but also, funny. way. Twin Town is populated, in- Twin Town, billed as the Welsh stead, with indistinct characters equivalent of last year's weighted down with Trainspotting, has the strange habits and hob- MOVIES dark and depressing part bies. Unfortunately, down just fine. It's the hu- weird does not constitute in- mor that gives it trouble. teresting. When harm comes to Two brothers, Julian and Je- the Lewis family, it's difficult to remy Lewis (real-life brothers Llyr care; all we know of the family is Evans and Rhys Ifans), are the that the daughter sleeps around resident delinquents of Swansea, and the father likes to make mod- Wales, careening through the el submarines. I was more wor- streets in stolen cars and ingest- ried about the Lewis dog than I ing and inhaling every drug they was about the Lewis family. can get their hands on, from mod- Most unforgivable is the boring el-making glue to prescription nature of our anti-heroes, the drugs bought from the elderly cou- twins. The two brothers rarely ple down the lane. speak and when they do, it's ado- Known as "the twins," the two lescent gibberish. More than any- brothers are relatively harmless thing, they resemble an insidious until the day their father, Fatty, and treacherously blank-faced takes a tumble off a ladder while version of Beavis and Butt-head fixing a roof for Bryn Cartwright, — they grin, drink, smoke pot, one of the wealthiest men in town. steal stuff and grin some more. When Cartwright refuses to give Who cares? Fatty compensation for his fall, Writer and director Kevin the twins devise a method of re- Allen seems to believe that the venge involving the Cartwright wacky cast of colorful characters family poodle. he's tried to create should be Naturally, Cartwright retali- enough to have us rolling in the ates, and soon events take a mur- aisles and shaking our heads at derous turn. This should have the crazy, mixed up world of been the point where things turn 'Swansea, Wales. Somebody darkly comic, providing us with should tell him that humor helps insight into the absurd nature of when making a comedy. revenge. Instead, the movie stops 1/2 dead in its tracks and limps home, S of the University of Michigan Burton Memorial Tower Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1270 T- E to — Richard Halprin Rated R PM 313.164.2538 ®k 'Twin Town' Man Hagegard, baritone SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ture capitalist discovered how to re-create dinosaurs from DNA fragments. He then placed the ge- netically engineered dinosaurs in a theme park in Costa Rica, but as you may recall, things went awry. The Lost World begins in the af- termath of the disaster of Juras- sic Park, as Dr. Hammond (Richard Attenborough), corpo- rate profiteers and the Costa Ri- can government conspire to keep a lid on the catastrophe while ne'er-do-wells surreptitiou sly work on a fresh angle to exploit the new- ly revived dinosaurs. Jeff Goldblum reprises his role as the scientist with a conscience, Dr. Ian Malcom, teamed this time with Sara Harding (Juliana Moore), his girlfriend and fellow researcher, as part of a group sent to Isla Sorno to film a dinosaur documentary. Once on the island, the film crew butts heads with a legion of mercenaries charged with cap- turing raptors and other ancient carnivores and bringing them to San Diego for display. Before long the raptors get quite ornery, wreaking havoc on everyone in sight, including those individuals seated in the theater. Like its predecessor, The Lost World boasts awesome special ef- fects and terrifyingly realistic di- nosaurs. But beyond the magic, Jurassic Park raised some signif- icant questions about scientific ethics and corporate greed, enter- taining on an intellectual level as well as a more guttural level. The Lost World, on the other hand, has a greater sense of hu- mor, but a lesser sense of honor and, without an actual agenda or plot, it fails to engage meaning- fully. Certainly, it's still fun to watch those dinosaurs run amok, but the thrill just isn't the same the sec- ond time around. If the moral of Jurassic Park is that science should leave the past alone, then the moral of The Lost World may be that the same should apply to filmmaking. It's A Free Country. Now placing a Personal Ad is too. (Free) Detroit Jewish News is now offering FREE personal ad placement. Pgaple•Voice ii l ~ hiF ~ SIN, To coo To place a free ad, call 1.800.881.8290 You must be 18 or older. Liz Lent is an avid moviegoer. 7 — Liz Lent