![]() The Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Culture Poirson, El Biar Alger, AlgérieĬivil Aviation Authority of Angola (ANAC) Ministère des Transports/ Direction de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie 01, Chemin Ibn Badis El Mouiz, Ex. Str "Sulejman Delvina", Tirane, P.O box MohamedĬhef de Bureau Normes et Sécurité Aérienne (BNSA) à la SDCSNAĭirection de l'aviation civile et de la météorologieĭirection de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie ![]() Zesty - Bird Sweeney With: Vernon Wells, Barbara Crampton, Denis Akiyama, Sandra Dickinson, Sean Lawler, Graeme Wilkinson, Dave Buffy, Billy Clark, Pat Laffan, Sylvan Baker.The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Also in Sundance, Sitges film festivals.) Running time: 96 MIN. Reviewed at Vancouver Film Festival, Oct. Directed by Stuart Gordon Screenplay, Tedd Mann, based on a story by Gordon, Mann.Ĭamera (color), Mac Ahlberg editor, John Victor Smith music, Colin Towns production design, Simon Murton art direction, Simon Lamont set decoration, Malcolm Stone costumes, John and Ann Bloomfield sound (Dolby), Glenn Freemantle special f/x, Brian Johnson, Paul Gentry associate producers, Mary Louise Queally, Heidi Leavitt assistant director, Charles Rotherham. Executive producers, Guy Collins, Stephen Kay. ![]() (International sales: Goldcrest Films Intl.) Produced by Peter Newman, Greg Johnson, Ted Mann, Stuart Gordon, Mary Breen-Farrelly. production, in association with Mary Breen-Farrelly Prods., and with support from Investment Incentives for the Irish Film Industry. Music score, heavy on country-rock ditties, could have been sharper, but other tech credits are good, or as good as they need to be for this kind of goofy fun.Ī Goldcrest presentation of a Pachyderm/Peter Newman/Interal Prods. Irish exteriors - when the threesome finally lands on Earth - are particularly arresting. Elsewhere, some heat is generated when our trio’s jalopy loses its air-conditioning, causing Dorff and Mazar to strip down to their skivvies - and to notice each other in a big way, much to Canyon’s dismay.Īny hints at sex or violence, however, are kept light by cartoony tone, and the tale manages to look fresh, despite its purposeful use of cliches dating back to “Flash Gordon” and beyond. “Re-Animator” helmer Stuart Gordon’s pic revels in bad taste, peaking early with Wendt’s character getting stuck in a broken portal and then sucked, ass-first, into space.Īnother highlight is Macanudo’s attempt to mate with the eye-rolling Cindy, who has gallantly offered to save her friends: He tries, but keeps failing, to “start” himself like an out-of-gas lawnmower. Still, the mid-budget pic boasts a number of elaborate set pieces, led by the tacky coffee-shop set, a rotating cylinder that looks like “2001” with a C&W twist. Obviously, the plot isn’t to be taken seriously, and many of the effects are strictly of the cheeseball midnight madness variety. These deadly creations are aimed at Earth, as part of a plan by super-capitalist Saggs (Shane Rimmer) to rule the planet. When the no-good captain tries to get into their cargo hold, he unleashes a torrent of murderous “biomechanical warriors,” or BMWs - actually tall women in Robocop outfits - on the crew. Macanudo (Charles Dance), an engineering wizard who’s turned himself into some sort of low-rent Borg: part machine, part ham actor. Sure, they’ve been told it’s a load of sex toys, but when waylaid by evil space pirates, they find out different. Problem is, Canyon and company don’t know what cargo they’re carrying for their supposedly easy dollars. In protest, the rocket jockey grabs his sometime girlfriend Cindy (Debi Mazar, unflappable as usual), who pours java at the rowdy interstellar truck stop, and apprentice pilot Mike Pucci (Dorff) - eager, but wet behind the ears - for an impromptu indie run to Earth. Seems the joint is run by a crooked labor boss (“Cheers” grad George Wendt), who rips off Canyon’s profits. His latest trouble begins while attempting to deliver a batch of “square” pigs - animals genetically bred for efficient shipping - to a faraway station. An unusually relaxed Hopper toplines as John Canyon (the name sounds like a funny-pages nod), a veteran freight pilot who, in the year 2197, finds his independent ways increasingly cramped by corruption and dangerous new technology.
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