Date Posted:10:59:26 04/11/00 Tue Author: kande Subject: Return to Me reviews - don't read if you think you might like it
Yikes! These are excerpts of reviews in the 4/7 Washington Post:
"Only one last question remains, though it sustains (wanly) the entire second half of the film. That is: What will Bob do when he learns that Grace lives only because Helen has died and that that's Helen's ticker ticktocking away in Grace's chest cavity? Alas, what Duchovny does is truly terrible: He tries to act."
and...
"But "Return to Me" is so phony it makes your gums ache. It's like having your head clamped in a vise and being force-fed sugar cubes by an ex-Up-With-People member who now owns an Amway franchise and knows what's best, dammit!"
and...
"How else to explain "Return to Me," which does for romantic movies what Stalin did for civic freedom? With so many bad movies around, past and present, I guess I should temper my vitriol. But really, this movie is the worst thing I've sat through . . . in days."
and finally...
"RETURN TO ME (PG, 116 minutes) - Contains stunningly brain-dead writing and unnecessarily gruesome material, all of this completely inappropriate for children and, come to think of it, adults."
To show they are an equal opportunity basher, this was in the Post's 4/11 tv column:
"Meanwhile, about 12 million of you tuned in to "The X-Files," which, I'll concede, was an important episode in that it demonstrated that any fool can direct a TV drama series--in this case, star Gillian Anderson."
Ouch!
Needless to say, the Washington Post has not been a promoter of The X-Files. The writers are also a little too enamored with their own cleverness.
