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Fatal Instinct
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by MGM (Video & DVD)
Sales Rank: 37125
Price: $14.95
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Carl Reiner tried to give the Mel Brooks treatment to the <i>Fatal Attraction</i>/<i>Basic Instinct</i> genre of films about vicious, conniving women and the not-so-bright men who get involved with them. In this case, it's Armand Assante, an actor not particularly known for his comedic chops. He plays a guy who is both a police detective and a defense attorney, so he can defend the people he arrests. He becomes the target of a female stalker (Sean Young, in a bit of typecasting), as well as the dupe in a murder plot involving his wife (Kate Nelligan). Reiner takes a scattershot approach to comedy, hoping to play in the same ballpark as the Zucker brothers or Brooks. While he hits a few singles and the occasional double, he never knocks a joke out of the park and so the movie winds up with an awful lot of pop fouls. <I>--Marshall Fine</I>
Viewer Reviews
This film is A very funny spoof of film noir,and many suspense films(including "9 1/2 Weeks","Cape Fear","Sleeping with The Enemy","Fatal Attraction",and "Basic Instinct".The cast is very funny, Especially Armand Assante as A cop/lawyer(who thinks he knows everything about women),and Sean Young As A Blonde femme fatale(who carries an ice pick lighter,and always has something stuck to her heels).The film is funny,but tries to hard to be A Mel Brooks Spoof.Carl Reiner,although A Genius,is not quite Mel Brooks.So some of the jokes,don't come off that well.The cast is so good however,they make up for the films shortcomings.4 stars,it's not hilarious,but it comes very close.Fatally Funny,almost!
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