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Other choices seemed to come from outer space. Comic actors traditionally fail even to be nominated, much less to win, yet the Academy put up Anne Ramsey of Throw Momma From the Train, who played a character so devoid of redeeming human qualities that she was more disgusting than funny, and Robin Williams, who played Robin Williams in Good Morning Vietnam. Overlooked was the best comic performance of the year, Steve Martin in Roxanne...
...mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...
...Even the comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan to defeat at the caressing hands of three ravishing feminists. This week's predictable hit, Throw Momma from the Train, is a jolly farce about matricide...
There are only several moments when it seems obvious that Momma is DeVito's directing debut. The movie starts off at a breakneck pace that it just barely manages to maintain. But just when you think that DeVito is running out of energy, he comes up with even a sharper sight gag, or Stu Silver's script comes up with another great line...
...Throw Momma From the Train is a funky, silly comedy which shows that Danny DeVito has great promise as a director of comedy. He may look like "a troll that should be hanging from a rear view mirror," but he thinks like a combination of Rod Serling and the Roadrunner...