24 ~ Wednesday, August 12, 1992 - North Shore News

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Death Becomes Her * & % ¥ (Universal) Rated 14 years (at a ing is easy; comedy is hard. Well, - =n Free rab

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However, they can’t shuffle off : ee
this mortal coil because, after ; . he’s dead, and his constant popp- |
quaffing sorceress Lisle von ‘ ing up Creates havoc for John For- e ning uc
Rheuman’s magic elixir, Helen é : sythe. Edmund Gwenn and, in Pet Leet
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break the first rule of being ex-
empt from death. They didn’t take
care of their bodies.
Since dying, Mad has broken
every bone in her carcass and Hel
has a rift in her midriff. But, as Juck
* would have it, a cadaver's best
friend is right at-hand — Ernest
Menville (Bruce Willis).
Not only was Madeline’s long-
suffering husband a brilliant plastic
surgeon in his prime, but now he
has a very handy second career —
undertaker (complete with kegs of
. formaldehyde and mannequin
spray paint).
There are many witty touches in
this great Robert Zemeckis com-

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A seven-year mental collapse
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Goldie ever to fill the screen —
and I do mean fil! the screen}. Liv-
ing in cat-infested squalor with
cupboards of neatly stacked can-
ned frosting and Friskies, Hel
dribbles icing on her chin while
replaying a.death scene from one
of Mad’s movies.
Bruce Willis deep-sixes the Die
Hard mugging for a well-played
character part as a disnevelled,
spineless drunk who, in a
tudicrous comic bit, is the object
of the women’s tug-of-war.
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