The Collegian-Page C2 Arts & Entertainment January 28, 1998 This 'Spice' is good, but with a little aftertaste By Mary Anne Whisnant reminds you of your little sister and wear it. Rockdale News Editor you want to laugh. Ginger Spice There were three plots to the wears platform shoes and pants movie. It seems that there is a docu The Spice Girls—Baby Spice that are so tight; she looks four mentary being covered by a (Emma Bunton), Ginger Spice months pregnant. Sporty Spice “W annabe" movie director, a (Gerì Halliwell), Scary Spice wears high cut pants, midriff tops grouchy editor of a tabloid maga (Melanie Brown), Sporty Spice and warm up jackets. Scary Spice zine, sick of seeing the girls on the (Melanie Chishom), and Posh is very cool. She wears a combi cover of every other magazine, Spice (Victoria Adams) have nation of sporty, sassy and slinky bubbling with smiles and no wor fired off their latest 15 minutes of attire. Posh Spice wears very short ries. He hires a photographer who fame salvo with their dresses. can fit in anywhere and creates sto mockumentary movie called, At one point in the film the ries of SpiceBacklash. SpiceWorld. So hold on to your girls are being trained to dance by Then there’s the manager platform shoes, grab your midriff a British dance instructor, and as who, throughout the movie, talks tops and put a little glitter in your they are coming out of the house with the cryptic Roger Moore(the hair, because this movie will 'Spice all have on military uniforms, ex second James Bond) about letting Up Your Life'. cept for Posh, she has on a mili the girls take a break and relax. The clothing the girls wear in tary print short, skin tight, dress. It Look for the cool cameos this flick are short, slinky and low was funny, because her clothes sprinkled throughout the film. This cut. Each outfit reflects their per definitely reflect her personality. movie is great for the kids, but I Photo courtesy o f Columbia Pictures sonalities. Baby Spice wears baby The girls look good though, no wouldn’t recommend it for the (from !eft)-Baby Spice, Scary Spice, Ginger Spice, Posh Spice and Sporty doll dresses and is so sweet that she matter what they wear or how they adults. Spice strike a pose in the 'Hard Days Night-ish' Spiceworld'. Good scares, plot By Wesley Griffin plaining to you why this town was are genuinely scary, from buzzing Arts & Entertainment Editor attacked and why people just don’t giant moths that suck the faces off peel out of a town of 500 people their victims to the severed heads Based on 1983’s Dean when there’s no one walking their that somehow find dead bodies and Koontz book of the same name, dog, or taking a smoke. start disappearing out of ziplocked P hantom s, directed by Joe Dean Koontz books are fright coroner bags. Chappelle, is filled with thrills and ening in their detail, the inner tur But the cast is stupid; wander chills that make a horror movie one moil of a character is always a sub ing off and investigated strange to remember. But, the one thing it plot, but here, you are not encour noises. Just like those hip ‘Scream doesn’t deliver is the background aged to care. I don’t know why ers’, they deserve to die. Affleck and time it takes for you to care Hollywood has problems adapting seems to demonstrate leading man about its hapless characters. Star Koontz books. There was 1993’s status, but the morose-faced En ring Peter O’ Toole(Lawrence of Hideaway with Jeff Goldblum, glishman, O’Toole, could’ve Arabiafds a tabloid journalist, Ben Christine Lahti, Jeremy Sisto stayed out of the picture entirely. Affleck(Goo(/ Will Hunting)as and up and an up-and-coming ac And the last thing that an town sheriff Liev tress named Alicia Silverstone. noyed me was Schreiber’s hyena- Schreiber(Scrcam 2)as his deputy That story was ruined, too and re laughing deputy who becomes a cently Koontz’s Intensity was on sort of host for the ‘ancient evil’, Photo courtesy o f Dimension Films and Rose McGowan(5cream)and Joanna Going (Inventing the Fox-TV with John C. McGinley even though he was a little nutty to (clockwise, from left)-Ben Affleck as town sheriff, Bryce Hammond, Joanna Abbots)as stranded sisters, the in the role of a madman stalking a begin with. Going as Dr. Jennifer Pailey, Peter O' Toole as tabloid journalistic Timothy movie starts too quickly, rushes college girl. It was a shame to even The ending was anti-climac Flyte, and Rose McGowan as Lisa, Jennifer's sister. The quartet put their through loads of special effects and attach his name to those wannabes. tic, kind of ambiguous and ulti heads together in order to fend off a supernatural force that has deserted a gross demises without really ex At any rate, Phantoms’ chills mately stupid. Skip it. whole town in the thriller, Phantoms.
d a n AYKROYD Blues Brothers 2000 J O H N GOODMAN opens: Friday, February 6th rated: PG-13 screening: Tuesday, February 3rd
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