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Striptease 33.1 80.2 142% Judge Dredd 34.7 78.8 127% Spy Hard 26.6 57.2 115% Diabolique 17.1 35.3 106% Street Fighter 33.5 66.0 97% Waterworld 88.2 166.4 89% The Juror 22.7 40.3 78% Johnny Mnemonic 19.1 33.3 74% Highlander...
...their heads under the category of "Superheroes," where visitors discover that, although the spandex-wearing ubermensches (and uberfraus) may be all the rage in the United States, in Europe they are used mostly for satirical purposes. Only in England does the serious superhero thrive, in incarnations like "Judge Dredd," found in the pages of adult comic weeklies like 2000 A.D. or Warriors. French and Belgian takes on the superhero yield either goofy results, like "Superdupont" by Gotlib and Jacques Lob, or satiric ones, as in the Italian "Ranxerox," a buffed-up, tank-top wearing, green-lipsticked, utterly psychotic superhero...
...burly, bombastic Judge Dredd, based on a popular series of British graphic novels, is best seen as a metaphor for the movie wars. As policeman, jury and executioner in the 22nd century, Joseph Dredd (Stallone) is supposed to be one potent dude, but he is manipulated and programmed by a ruling council. This Mega-City is fascism as fashion statement; Dredd's uniform has enough leather and metal to stock an S&M boutique. But he's just a soldier for hire, or a star looking for his next project. Dredd's warped mirror image is a renegade named Rico...
...superficial pleasures--like some clever production design and the splendor of a fight between two gorgeous women, Diane Lane and Joan Chen--Judge Dredd couldn't have worse timing. For one thing, it surfaces at the end of a 15-year line of dark sci-fi films; imagine Blade Runner inside a Tron video game. For another, the movie tries for the same combination of facetiousness and majesty that Batman Forever mined only two weeks before. Dredd, written by Michael De Luca, William Wisher and Steven de Souza, plays like an instant clone of the Gotham Gothic...
Alas, director Danny Cannon hasn't the skill to make majestic melodrama plausible. As for the facetiousness, Rob Schneider sweats arsenals of ammunition as Dredd's sarcastic sidekick. But the effect is redundant since Sly is his own comic relief. By now Stallone has become a symbol for all that is goofy and grandiloquent in Hollywood's live-action summer cartoons. The hormone that courses through his movie veins could be called preposterone...