Ebert & Roeper - 2000-11-25

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[1:23] By the way, Greg's no single-digit handicap either.

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[1:35] This week, Bruce Willis survives a deadly train wreck and Samuel L. Jackson knows why in Unbreakable.

[1:41] Glenn Close is back as Cruella de Vil in 102 Dalmatians.

[1:45] And Chow Yun-Fat is on a mission to avenge the death of his master in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

[1:56] I know what's going through your mind right now.

[2:00] You're searching for meaning in all of this.

[2:05] No one thing.

[2:09] 131 people died so you could finally understand the destiny for which you were born.

[2:14] Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson are linked by their mysterious medical conditions in Unbreakable.

[2:19] One of five new movies we'll be reviewing this week.

[2:21] I'm Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times.

[2:24] And I'm Richard Roper, columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

[2:27] Unbreakable is writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's follow-up to The Sixth Sense.

[2:31] And once again, Bruce Willis plays an everyman trying to decipher a chilling and perhaps supernatural mystery.

[2:38] David Dunn is an unhappily married security guard who is the sole survivor of a horrible train wreck.

[2:43] In fact, he walks away completely unharmed.

[2:45] This miraculous event attracts the attention of Jackson's Elijah Price,

[2:49] who owns a gallery specializing in comic book art.

[2:52] I have something called osteogenesis imperfecta.

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[3:03] Very easy to break.

[3:04] If there is someone like me in the world, and I am at one end of the spectrum,

[3:09] couldn't there be someone else opposite of me at the other end?

[3:13] That's Spencer Treat Clark as David's son,

[3:15] who comes to believe his father has the powers of a comic book superhero.

[3:19] David himself starts to have some questions.

[3:21] Audrey, do you remember me ever getting sick?

[3:25] In the three years we lived in this house?

[3:28] In the old apartment?

[3:30] Before Joseph was born?

[3:32] Before we ever got married?

[3:33] The underrated Robin Wright Penn is Audrey Dunn,

[3:36] a physical therapist who doesn't know her new patient has already made contact with her husband.

[3:40] My husband was a star athlete in college, and we were in an accident together.

[3:47] Our car flipped in an icy road, and we were both injured, and he couldn't play football anymore.

[3:51] And if that hadn't happened, we probably wouldn't have been together.

[3:54] How so?

[3:55] I think we should talk about your rehab.

[3:58] There's an unsettling sense of tension permeating that scene, like a pinprick to your senses.

[4:03] Unbreakable moves at a deliberate pace, and it doesn't offer the breathless jolts of the sixth sense,

[4:07] but Unbreakable is about more than a surprise payoff.

[4:09] It's a unique, engaging thriller of the mind with superb performances by the lead actors,

[4:14] and it's another major step for Shyamalan, who's fast-emerging as one of our foremost storytellers.

[4:19] You know, it really is. I really got absorbed in this movie, and I love the low-key way he's not always punching it up

[4:24] and shocking you and, you know, cats and things are not jumping out of the sides of the screen

[4:29] in order to give you phony thrills instead.

[4:30] Not those cheap surprise shocks that we get in other movies.

[4:33] You know, there are times during this movie where you don't even really know where the mystery is.

[4:38] You just know there's something wrong, and there's something going on.

[4:41] And Bruce Willis plays a character who would be totally convincing in a straight drama.

[4:45] I mean, that's the thing about Shyamalan.

[4:47] His characters are real. They're not just puppets for a thriller.

[4:50] And Bruce Willis is so good at playing that everyman.

[4:53] Yes, he is.

[4:53] And it's kind of interesting, too.

[4:54] Samuel L. Jackson, who's usually such a powerful physical presence,

[4:57] playing a character who's actually, you know, trapped inside this medical condition he has,

[5:01] and the by-play between them, just terrific.

[5:03] And the way the writing unfolds in scene after scene really keeps us interested throughout.

[5:08] What I was reminded by is the fiction of Stephen King,

[5:11] you know, who has supernatural things percolating beneath the surface in some of his best books,

[5:16] and yet, you know, you said that, you used that word pinprick.

[5:19] There's something going on.

[5:20] We know it. We know it. It's something, but we don't know what it is.

[5:22] Okay, our next movie is The Weekend, and it's about a couple who have two weekend guests,

[5:27] and then they invite over a couple of neighbors,

[5:29] and that makes six, plus the memory of a man who died a year ago.

[5:33] But, you know, even with only seven characters, basically, it was 20 minutes before I figured out

[5:39] that the dead guy was the heroine's brother-in-law and not her late husband.

[5:42] The movie stars Deborah Kara Unger and Jared Harris as a married couple,

[5:46] whose guests are his brother's former lover and the former lover's new lover.

[5:51] What have you done to your head?

[5:53] Cut it.

[5:53] Oh, you look great.

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[5:57] Thanks, too.

[5:57] So, you're the reason that we haven't seen Lala all summer,

[6:00] and here he's trying to convince us that he's been working on book number two.

[6:03] That's David Conrad as the former lover and James Duvall as the new lover.

[6:07] In another weekend house not far away,

[6:09] Jenna Rollins plays a much-married woman of the world

[6:12] whose guests are her hostile daughter, played by Brooke Shields,

[6:15] and her date, played by Gary Dorden.

[6:18] My mother thinks that all film people are hypocrites, especially me.

[6:22] That's not true, Nina. I'm very proud of everything you do.

[6:26] Why is it that every time you pat me on the back, Mother,

[6:28] it feels like there's a knife in your hand?

[6:30] Shields fights with Dorden.

[6:31] He goes back to town, and Rollins and Shields end up at dinner with the other four

[6:35] in a session of truth-telling that looks like it could have been photographed

[6:38] for a magazine about elegant country living.

[6:42] What did I tell you?

[6:46] What did she tell you?

[6:48] Well, that all of the men that I find attractive are either gay, like these two, or Tony,

[6:52] or married, like John.

[6:54] The Jenna Rollins character is more authentic than the rest, at least,

[6:58] guzzling red wine and sabotaging the dinner party with charm and mischief.

[7:02] But what about those flashbacks?

[7:04] Do they really mean Deborah Kara Unger wanted to have an affair with her gay brother-in-law or not?

[7:09] And does her husband have sex with Brooke Shields or not?

[7:12] I left the movie with a lot of questions,

[7:14] and the problem was I didn't really care about the answers to any of them.

[7:18] You're so right.

[7:18] You mentioned, like, the first 20 minutes.

[7:20] I was trying to figure, maybe when this comes out on DVD, they'll have a chart,

[7:23] and they can explain all the relationships here.

[7:25] I keep thinking when I was watching this, I kept thinking about this Kevin Bacon starring role in a movie called The Big Picture.

[7:30] Remember that?

[7:30] Christopher Guest directed it.

[7:32] And the character of Kevin Bacon was a director who was forced into directing this really bad,

[7:36] pretentious film about a bunch of people who get together for a weekend at a country house.

[7:39] This is that bad movie brought to life, unfortunately.

[7:43] And it just doesn't go anywhere.

[7:45] You're trying to keep track of who likes who and who's mad at who.

[7:48] And I never trust a movie where people are walking around always quoting literary figures.

[7:52] It's because they don't have anything interesting to say themselves.

[7:54] You know, there seems to be some kind of an unwritten law that gay characters get together for weekends at country houses.

[8:02] I've seen about four movies, and there's always one guy who's dying of AIDS.

[8:06] It was so refreshing to see that movie a couple of weeks ago, The Broken Hearts Club,

[8:10] where gay people are gay and they have lives that don't evolve going out to the country

[8:14] and having these sad conversations with the loon sweeping across the lake and the wind in the trees

[8:20] and everybody weeping about what happened last year.

[8:23] I mean, let them be a little bit more unpredictable, I think, is one of the problems I have with this movie,

[8:29] along with a lot of others, including just its general awkwardness and clunkiness.

[8:33] Yes, very self-aware kind of a movie.

[8:35] Okay, coming up later in the show, Glenn Close has canines on her criminal mind in 102 Dalmatians.

[8:43] Coming up next, passion and revenge fuel the epic saga of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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[11:02] Our next movie is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and I don't think I've seen a more beautiful and exciting film all year.

[11:09] I know I haven't witnessed such a spectacular fusion of exotic romance, light comedy, deep philosophy, and blazing fight scenes that leave the viewer breathless and giddy.

[11:18] Michelle Yeo plays a veteran warrior who pursues the intruder who has stolen a sword used by China's greatest fighter.

[11:42] There's also a flashback sequence explaining the romance between a girl from a noble family and an outlaw.

[12:02] That's Zhang Ziyi as Jen, and she has a riveting presence as a defiant ingenue and an amazing fighter.

[12:26] One of the many delights in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the equal opportunity element of the fight scenes.

[12:32] Three of the five principal warriors are women, including the chief villain.

[12:36] But nobody can touch the great Chao Yun-Fat as a legendary master who wants to retire to domestic tranquility as soon as he settles one last score.

[12:45] Now, we get a lot of familiar plot threads like that, but in director Ang Lee's hands, these threads weave a colorful tapestry that ranks among the most thrilling films of the year.

[12:54] You know, I loved it, too, and Ang Lee is a great director who usually deals in much different kind of material, like the ice storm.

[13:00] Right.

[13:00] Here, he's not trying to transcend the martial arts genre.

[13:04] He's not trying to transform it.

[13:05] He's trying to perfect it.

[13:06] He stays within the traditions of this kind of film.

[13:09] Right.

[13:09] And just makes a really great one.

[13:12] And one of the things I like is how frank he is about when he's using the special effects trickery.

[13:17] You know, in a lot of these movies, they have people doing stunts that are impossible, but they try to make them look real.

[13:23] Here, they don't try to make them look real.

[13:25] And there's a fight here in the treetops.

[13:28] Yeah.

[13:28] That is absolutely visually exhilarating.

[13:31] You know, this was based on the fourth novel in a five-part series of books.

[13:35] And it kind of plays like that, like a sweeping winds of war type miniseries with all these melodramatic romances.

[13:41] There's a great flashback to the romance of the young girl and this outlaw warrior.

[13:45] So there's all this melodrama, but then it's interspersed with amazing fight sequences.

[13:50] Amazing is the word for it.

[13:51] You know, a lot of people probably don't think of themselves as being candidates for a martial arts film.

[13:56] They just look at the ads in the paper and they think, well, that's martial arts.

[13:59] I don't want to see that.

[14:00] If you've ever wanted to see one, this might be the one to see because it is really well made.

[14:06] Yes.

[14:06] It is just great.

[14:07] Okay, coming up next, London Goes to the Dogs in 102 Dalmatians.

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[14:56] Yeah.

[14:57] Right.

[14:57] I'm much more compelled to meet people who I have a fascination.

[15:00] Yeah.

[15:01] What they've done.

[15:02] I think celebrities are cool.

[15:03] Most.

[15:04] I mean.

[15:05] I don't know.

[15:06] Celebrities aren't cool.

[15:06] I'm just saying that I don't get too profoundly excited if I ever see one.

[15:09] Yeah.

[15:10] You know.

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[15:13] That would be killer.

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[16:04] Cruella de Vil has been brainwashed into becoming a dog lover in the opening scenes of 102 Dalmatians,

[16:10] a sequel to the 1996 live-action remake of Disney's 1961 animated film.

[16:17] Glenn Close's Cruella still looks like a cross between Vampirella and Elvira,

[16:21] but she's turned over a new leaf now.

[16:23] She stops wearing furs.

[16:24] She adopts a puppy and tells her parole officer that her dog-napping days are far behind her.

[16:30] The officer is a Dalmatian lover who has her doubts.

[16:33] I don't want to be sensitive about her lack of ammo.

[16:36] Oh!

[16:38] SP-30S.

[16:40] Oh, is that normal at her age?

[16:42] Well, like everything else about her,

[16:46] it is a bit...

[16:49] odd.

[16:49] That's Alice Evans as the dog-loving parole officer

[16:52] and a lot of the action of Al's cute little oddball who doesn't have any spots.

[16:58] Gerald Epperdew co-stars as Monsieur Le Pelt,

[17:01] a French designer of fur coats.

[17:03] The coats from poopies.

[17:06] Ah, not just any poopies.

[17:15] Poopies with...

[17:23] 102 Dalmatians is a saga that has more or less reached the end of the line.

[17:28] I'm not convinced this movie was necessary.

[17:30] The dogs get some exciting scenes.

[17:32] The puppies are cute.

[17:34] There's a lively little poodle,

[17:35] but the live-action plot this time is sort of like the previous film.

[17:40] Cruella hasn't really changed her spots.

[17:42] Dogs are threatened, and animal lovers prevail.

[17:44] You are so right about this.

[17:46] It wasn't necessary.

[17:47] They made it because the first one made a lot of money,

[17:49] so they just sort of remade the first one,

[17:51] and they really go to this tortured plot device

[17:53] where she's, oh, she's good,

[17:55] but now she's good.

[17:55] We know she's going to be Cruella de Vil

[17:57] for it to even be a movie again.

[17:59] But you do feel sorry for it at the end

[18:00] because she's not evil and mean enough from the start.

[18:03] So there's no payoff when she finally gets her comeuppance

[18:06] because the little doggies and the macaw

[18:08] and everybody else,

[18:09] they're all smarter than Cruella de Vil,

[18:11] and you've got to have a great, cheesy villain in a movie like this

[18:15] to enjoy it when she gets splattered with all the stuff at the end.

[18:19] And it's not really her fault that she changes

[18:20] because it all has to do with this Pavlovian brainwashing.

[18:23] You know, instead of remaking the movie,

[18:26] I think they could rethink the character.

[18:28] Cruella de Vil, I think, could be moved back into animation.

[18:31] How about an animated version of Sunset Boulevard

[18:33] with Cruella de Vil as Norma Desmond

[18:35] or something like that?

[18:36] How about Cruella in Love?

[18:37] Maybe they can do that.

[18:38] Even that would be more interesting.

[18:40] Just a thought.

[18:42] All right, our next movie is very different.

[18:44] It's called Quills,

[18:44] and it's a powerful feast of shocking images

[18:47] and subversive ideas.

[18:48] It's directed by Phil Kaufman,

[18:50] who made The Right Stuff

[18:51] and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

[18:53] This time out, Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush

[18:55] stars as the Marquis de Sade,

[18:57] strutting and twirling with mad glee

[18:59] while also revealing the darkest demons

[19:01] and some surprising bravery inside.

[19:04] The Marquis, the notoriously sex-obsessed author

[19:07] of post-revolutionary France,

[19:09] has been jailed in an asylum in Charenton.

[19:11] But he remains a storyteller

[19:13] as when he works his leering charm

[19:15] on a ripe laundress played by Kate Winslet.

[19:18] You're terribly aphotic.

[19:19] Fiendishly so.

[19:21] But it comes with a price.

[19:25] A kiss for each page.

[19:29] Must I administer them directly,

[19:31] or might I blow them?

[19:32] The price, my coquette,

[19:33] is every bit as firm as I am.

[19:38] After the Marquis has been stripped

[19:39] of his writing materials,

[19:40] even the clothes he was using

[19:42] as a literary canvas,

[19:43] he still creates.

[19:44] His need to write supersedes

[19:45] his need to breathe

[19:46] as he defies Michael Caine,

[19:48] a sadistic doctor bent on silencing him.

[19:51] Don't tell me.

[19:52] You've come to read my trousers.

[19:54] Oh, please don't keep me in suspense.

[19:56] What'll it be?

[19:56] Fifty lashes.

[19:57] A night on the ramp.

[19:59] I won't sully my hands with him.

[20:03] Don't you do.

[20:04] That's the first rule of politics, isn't it?

[20:06] The man who orders the execution

[20:08] never drops the blade.

[20:10] Quills is a searing indictment

[20:11] of censorship and religious hypocrisy,

[20:14] but it also presents the argument

[20:15] that works of fiction

[20:16] can light the fuse

[20:17] for horrific violence

[20:19] in the real world.

[20:20] The Marquis is far from being a hero.

[20:22] He manipulates humans

[20:23] like chess pieces

[20:24] and his dirty fingered work

[20:25] isn't exactly Shakespearean

[20:26] in scope and insight,

[20:28] but at least he's honest

[20:29] about who he is.

[20:30] Rush delivers a daring,

[20:31] exhaustive, and memorable performance

[20:33] in this disturbing

[20:34] and thought-provoking work.

[20:36] Quills should not be missed.

[20:38] You know, I was really amazed

[20:39] by this film

[20:40] because it takes so many chances

[20:41] and it gets away with it.

[20:42] And here is the most controversial author

[20:44] in history.

[20:45] And there are two views of him.

[20:46] In the one view,

[20:46] he's this perverted,

[20:49] degraded, depraved monster.

[20:50] And that's kind of correct.

[20:52] Yes.

[20:52] And then there's another view

[20:53] in which he's this brave man

[20:55] who continues to try

[20:56] to create his art

[20:57] in the face of this

[20:58] enormous suffering,

[20:59] almost as much suffering

[21:00] as he inflicted

[21:01] on his poor victims.

[21:02] And that view is correct, too.

[21:03] And Phil Kaufman, I think,

[21:05] is fascinated by the fact

[21:06] that this man,

[21:07] who was not a nice man,

[21:09] is at the same time

[21:10] kind of heroic

[21:11] in terms of his human spirit,

[21:13] which will not be silenced.

[21:15] So the audience is asked

[21:16] to kind of balance

[21:17] these two views

[21:17] instead of being given

[21:18] some kind of simplistic solution.

[21:20] Yeah, he is both of those things.

[21:21] It's sort of like

[21:21] a Larry Flint is today

[21:23] where it's like,

[21:24] well, what he does

[21:24] kind of frightens me,

[21:25] but I'm even more disturbed

[21:26] that people would try

[21:27] to silence this.

[21:28] And that's even

[21:29] a worse thing to do.

[21:30] And they do a wonderful job

[21:31] of mixing both of those elements

[21:33] into the character.

[21:34] And Geoffrey Rush

[21:34] really pushes

[21:35] as far as he can

[21:36] in this character.

[21:37] I mean,

[21:38] he creates a man

[21:39] who is essentially mad.

[21:41] We see him really

[21:42] suffering on the screen

[21:44] and we're convinced

[21:44] we don't think of him

[21:45] as an actor at all.

[21:46] It's quite a performance.

[21:47] 90% of the film actors

[21:48] out there,

[21:48] even the really good ones,

[21:49] probably wouldn't even

[21:50] try to tackle that part.

[21:51] What about Michael Caine?

[21:52] He's also really good here

[21:54] and shows you

[21:55] that there are people

[21:55] even worse than the Marquis

[21:56] walking around in that time.

[21:58] Okay, when we come back,

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[22:58] Mr. Zach.

[23:00] Hershey's pot of gold?

[23:01] What are you crazy?

[23:02] We hardly know that.

[23:03] Bill?

[23:05] Hi.

[23:09] Hershey's pot of gold.

[23:11] It's that good.

[23:12] Ebert and Roper

[23:13] in the movie's

[23:13] video pick of the week

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[23:20] My video pick

[23:21] is planes,

[23:22] trains,

[23:22] and automobiles.

[23:23] The 1987 comedy

[23:24] starring Steve Martin

[23:25] and John Candy

[23:27] as two businessmen

[23:29] who want to get home

[23:30] for Thanksgiving

[23:30] more than anything else

[23:32] in the world

[23:33] and end up stranded

[23:33] in the middle of nowhere.

[23:35] The movie has become

[23:36] a Thanksgiving tradition

[23:37] in a lot of families

[23:38] because of its

[23:39] slapstick humor

[23:40] and also

[23:40] because of its

[23:41] heartwarming undertones.

[23:43] Martin and Candy

[23:44] are opposites.

[23:45] A fastidiously

[23:46] aloof businessman

[23:47] and a friendly

[23:48] human haystack.

[23:49] Fate throws them together.

[23:51] Look,

[23:51] I don't want to be rude,

[23:52] but I'm not much

[23:53] of a conversationalist

[23:55] and I'd pretty like

[23:56] to finish this article.

[23:57] A friend of mine

[23:57] wrote it, so...

[23:58] Don't let me stand

[23:59] in your way, please.

[24:00] Don't let me stand

[24:00] in your way.

[24:01] The last thing

[24:02] I want to be remembered

[24:02] as is an annoying

[24:03] blabbermouth.

[24:07] You know,

[24:07] nothing grinds my gears

[24:09] worse than some

[24:09] chowder head

[24:10] who doesn't know

[24:10] when to keep

[24:11] his big trap shut.

[24:11] Here's the movie's

[24:12] most famous scene

[24:13] after they have to

[24:14] share a bed

[24:15] in the motel.

[24:16] Where's your other hand?

[24:18] Between two pillows.

[24:21] Those aren't pillows.

[24:41] Did you see that

[24:42] Bears game last week?

[24:43] Yeah,

[24:43] Halloween game.

[24:44] I like Planes, Trains,

[24:45] and Automobiles

[24:46] when it came out,

[24:47] but over the years,

[24:48] I've had to admit

[24:49] that like was not

[24:50] a strong enough word

[24:51] for my opinion

[24:52] about this movie.

[24:53] In its own way,

[24:53] this is a great movie,

[24:55] not just as a comedy,

[24:56] but also for the way

[24:57] Martin and Candy

[24:58] are true to human nature

[24:59] and for the way

[25:00] that director-writer

[25:00] John Hughes

[25:01] somehow makes the movie

[25:03] much more emotionally

[25:04] affecting than it really

[25:05] has any right to be.

[25:07] Planes, Trains,

[25:07] and Automobiles

[25:08] is on tapes and DVD,

[25:09] and it's my

[25:10] video pick of the week.

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[25:48] I'll be home soon.

[25:49] Yeah.

[25:51] You know who I'll be?

[25:52] Walrus, man.

[25:54] Walrus.

[25:56] 450 megahertz

[25:57] should be fast enough.

[25:59] Uh-huh.

[26:00] Well, maybe not Leon.

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[27:23] Now let's take

[27:24] another look

[27:25] at the movies

[27:25] we reviewed

[27:26] on this week's show.

[27:27] Two thumbs up

[27:28] for the riveting

[27:29] supernatural thriller

[27:30] Unbreakable.

[27:31] But two thumbs down

[27:32] for the weekend

[27:33] it was tedious

[27:33] and awkward.

[27:35] Two big thumbs up

[27:36] for the exhilarating

[27:37] martial arts epic

[27:38] Crouching Tiger

[27:39] Hidden Dragon

[27:40] it opens in two weeks.

[27:42] But two thumbs down

[27:43] for 102 Dalmatians

[27:44] that's one Dalmatian

[27:45] too many.

[27:46] And finally

[27:47] two thumbs up

[27:48] for Quills

[27:48] with a great performance

[27:49] by Jeffrey Rush.

[27:51] So even though

[27:51] I don't recommend

[27:52] 102 Dalmatians

[27:53] I still think

[27:54] if you're going to

[27:54] take your kids

[27:55] to a movie

[27:55] go to 102 Dalmatians

[27:57] over the Grinch.

[27:58] I agree with that

[27:58] and also Unbreakable

[27:59] is a good movie

[28:00] although not for the kids.

[28:01] Now we want to announce

[28:02] the Ebert and Roper

[28:03] floating film festival

[28:04] with onboard movies

[28:05] and discussion sessions

[28:06] with Richard and myself.

[28:08] We'll be sailing

[28:09] February 1st

[28:10] through the 4th

[28:10] from Port Canaveral

[28:12] aboard the Disney Wonder

[28:13] of the Disney Cruise Lines

[28:14] visiting the Bahamas

[28:16] and Castaway Cay

[28:17] the Disney Private Island.

[28:19] For information

[28:19] call your travel agent

[28:20] or 1-800-945-3806

[28:23] or visit our website

[28:25] ebert-roper-movies.com

[28:27] where you can also hear reviews

[28:29] of this week's movies.

[28:31] Next week

[28:31] a special show

[28:32] about the exploding popularity

[28:34] of the DVD format.

[28:36] We're going to focus

[28:36] on all the bonus features

[28:37] extra scenes

[28:39] and hidden surprises

[28:39] on a lot of DVDs

[28:41] and we're calling this show

[28:42] Bells and Whistles.

[28:45] That's next week

[28:46] and until then

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[30:34] Once he was an emperor

[30:36] on the throne.

[30:37] Boom baby!

[30:38] Now...

[30:38] A toast!

[30:39] He's a luma

[30:40] on the land.

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[30:42] Walt Disney Pictures

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[30:45] We're about to go over

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[30:47] Yep.

[30:47] Sharp rocks at the bottom?

[30:49] Most likely.

[30:50] Bring it on.

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[31:00] The emperor's...