At The Movies
At the Movies lists first-run films showing on Oahu, effective tomorrow. Movies are rated on a four-star scale. Check theater listings for more information.

Thursday, May 8, 1997



OPENING TOMORROW

Chasing Amy

A romantic comedy/drama about girl trouble, boy trouble, and every imaginable trouble in between. Ben Affleck and Jason Lee. (R) At Varsity

Father's Day

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, together for the first time outside of a Comic Relief broadcast, play guys searching for their ex-girlfriend's runaway son. (PG-13) At Enchanted Lake, Kahala, Kapolei, Mililani, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row

The Fifth Element (Star rating unavailable

Bruce Willis is a cab driver who gets involved in some futuristic war between good and evil. (PG-13) At Aikahi, Enchanted Lake, Kapolei, Koko Marina, Mililani, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row, Waikiki 3

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

Set in 16th-century India and played in English, the film takes its title from the Hindu lovemaking manual. It follows the story of a servant girl whose sexual prowess ensnares a king. But the plot is both too vague and too complex to be an instructive moral fable. (R) At Varsity



CONTINUING

Anaconda

As a scary movie "Anaconda" is no more than middling. But if you look at it as a parody, you might find it howlingly funny. It's snake-bit by badness, which is the only thing that makes it tolerable. (PG-13) At Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Keolu, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Mike Myers plays both British secret agent Austin Powers and his arch-rival Dr. Evil. The two have been in a deep freeze for 30 years and when they emerge, must not only deal with each other, but also with being hopelessly out of date. (PG-13) At Cinerama, Kapolei, Keolu, Mililani, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row

Breakdown

Kurt Russell plays an average man battling malevolent strangers who have kidnapped his wife. Exhausting, terrifying movie brings to the screen your worst fears and nightmares. (R) At Enchanted Lake, Kapolei, Koko Marina, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row, Waikiki 2

Double Team

This action movie doesn't stop at packing Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman and Mickey Rourke into the same movie, it has them meet violently in Rome for a showdown that involves land mines, a baby, a Bengal tiger and the Colosseum engulfed in flames. (R) At Pearlridge

Jungle 2 Jungle

In "Jungle 2 Jungle," Tim Allen's shown wearing a plumed native headdress, but the movie is no feather in his cap. It's a rote fish-out-of-water story about a commodities trader who brings his Amazonian forest-raised son back to New York. (PG) At Kam Drive-In, Kapolei

Liar Liar

Jim Carrey plays a scummy lawyer forced to tell the truth for 24 hours. As usual, Carrey and his facial and bodily contortions make up the whole show. (PG-13) At Kahala, Kailua, Kapolei, Mililani, Pearlridge West

McHale's Navy

Tom Arnold stars in a big-screen version of the '60s television sitcom. The comedy is toothless and Arnold comes across as boring and unfelt. (PG) At Kapolei

Murder at 1600

The performances of stars Wesley Snipes and Diane Lane raise this solid, engrossing whodunit several notches as their characters investigate a murder case that may involve the president. (R) At Kahala, Kapolei, Keolu, Nanakuli, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row

Romy & Michele's High School Reunion

Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow's inspired acting as two adorable ditzes is the best part of this farce. They play two women who misrepresent their post-graduate lives at their high school reunion, which they attend in a borrowed Jaguar. (R) At Kahala, Kailua, Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row,

The Saint

Val Kilmer stars as a somewhat darker Simon Templar than fans of the earlier versions of the thief-for-hire may remember. (PG-13) At Kahala, Kapolei, Pearlridge

Scream

Director Wes Craven's new teens-in-peril thriller raises the cheesy formula of the stalk-and-slash movie to an unexpected level of intelligence and valid suspense. (R) At Kapolei

Selena

This leisurely paced, pleasingly old-fashioned biopic traces the rise to fame of the late Tejano music queen, Selena Quintanilla Perez, and her tragic shooting by her fan-club president. (PG) At Kapolei, Nanakuli, Pearlridge

The Sixth Man

Silly but well-executed basketball comedy features Kadeem Hardison as a basketball star who returns as a ghost after his death to help brother Marlon Wayans and his team to a tournament championship. (PG-13) At Kapolei, Laie, Pearlridge West

Volcano

The stunts and special effects in this movie about a volcano in downtown Los Angeles are quite convincing. (PG-13) At Aikahi, Kahala, Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Keolu, Laie, Mililani, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row, Waikiki 1

Warriors of Virtue

In this formula action fantasy, a teen-age boy stumbles into a strange world to help five kung fu kangaroos battle an evil warlord, Komodo, finding his own warrior virtues along the way. (PG) At Kahala, Kapolei, Keolu, Laie, Nanakuli, Pearlridge West




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