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Dark-eyed sex kitten Valerie Kaprisky plays the teenage vamp out for the blood of musclebound gigelo-pimp Romain (played by French hearthrob Bernard Giraudeau). The premise, not a plot but a torturously enacted idea for one, is a humourous example of self-conscious Freudiana: at the beginning of the film, Chris saves an eight-year-old boy from the deadly clutches of a field of jellyfish--read vagina--and in the end pushes superstud Giraudeau into the deadly metaphor...
Sigourney Weaver gives a terrific performance as the film's lead. No Rambo-esque musclebound bozo here, mowing down aliens for the sheer brute pleasure of it. Weaver breathes life into the age-old comic book conflict between wicked scientists and valiant humanist. Ripley, her character, manages to realistically combine the gutsy woman stereotype with a caring gentle femininity. A strong and maternal heroine is an innovation...
...critics, the Tribune is the Baby Huey of American newspapers-big, awkward, musclebound, stumbling over its own vast strength. Consistently profitable and increasingly dominant in the nation's third largest city, the paper employs 530 full-time editorial staffers, including 16 correspondents in Washington, eight in other U.S. cities outside Illinois, and four abroad. Yet for a paper of its visibility, the Trib has too little impact outside its region. The staff shares the industry's enthusiasm for blockbuster features, which tend to be deftly written and slickly packaged rather than penetrating. Says Journalism Director Neale Copple...
Like a weight lifter who spends too much time in the gym, the U.S. dollar has become musclebound. It will take a further decline in interest rates and an international economic recovery before American currency can begin to be brought into balance with the rest of the world...
...Allen is always lost in a sea of normal people, and, like the best comic actors, makes them appear ridiculous by his very presence. He doesn't even have to try to do this here, because the absurd futuristic lifestyle doesn the work for him. Even the handsome musclebound machos are no threat. They seem doubly stupid, because Allen by definition is the only bright person in the movie...