Oscar
(1991)
I had written this off as
a "Stallone does comedy" turkey, so imagine my surprise when I
discovered that it is consistently very funny.
John Landis is at his
most deft handling the script's sprightly farce, and Stallone shows fine comic
timing in the lead. The laurels go to Peter Reigert, Tim Curry, Marisa Tomei
and Chazz Palminteri ("You have a
dangling dipthong"), though. Only Vincent Spano fails to bring much to
his role.
****