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— Reviewed by David Elliott

ANASTASIA
The animation is a bloated lift of
current Disney style, with some
computer dazzle to shore up dull
naturalism. Beyond the debauch of
historical fact there is the fact that
the characters are crashingly flat.

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gruel, or being yanked screaming
into the ocean on an uncoiling
anchor chain (it's like a snake home-
bound to hell).
Led to America rather than Africa
by the Spanish pilot, these bewil-
dered, uprooted victims found
themselves put in chains once again.
Rated R.
* * 1/2

The film is
stupidly insulting
to Anastasia
and her tragic
family.

If this is history, no wonder most
kids in school hate it. Granted, we
do not ask for a serious musical car-
toon about the Russian Revolution.
The thought of Trotsky belting
"Lenin, My Kind of Commissar" to
a barricade of Bolsheviks is too
much. But what idiot thought Anas-
tasia would make a good cartoon for
kids? (Next, a thrilling `toon version
of Dead Souls.)
Anastasia is another El Nino of
marketing, blown at kids who will
endure (if not love) just about any-
thing cartooned, or anything rated
G. But it is not a pedantic har-
rumph to note that the film is stu-
pidly insulting to Anastasia, her
tragic and misguided family, her
vastly suffering nation, even (and
this is some achievement) to
Rasputin. Vocal cast: Meg Ryan,
John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd,
Kelsey Grammer, Hank Azaria,
Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters,
Kirsten Dunst. Rated G.

— Reviewed by David Elliott

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