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Page 121Western Maryland College! October 9, 1986 _ Craig Cecil Armed and Da_ngerous cert Harold Ramis, who co-starred John Candy stars as Frank man almost won an Oscar for his alongside Bill Murray in Dooley, a policeman who finds role in Jagged Edge. Gboabusters. observed that a himself abruptly framed by dirty comedy about men chasing after cops, and is subsequently kicked Don Stroud (from the Mike ghosts could reap huge profits. off the force. Eugene Levy plays Hammer TV-series) portrays one Drawing on a similiar sort of Norman Kane, an insecure, naive of the dirty cops, and his acting ingenuity, be decided to write a lawyer who is told by a judge to shows he is still playing a movie script of his own. Ramis "go find another job." Frank and :~~iSiO~~::lity ~~:u:~r. !~: thought that by combining Norman each decide to become elements from popular movies security guards at Guard Dog everyone else's acting, Stroud such as Beverly Hills Cop and Security, and there, among other all five of them. This is one case Candy and Levy have the should feel right at home. the Police Academy series, he derelicts of society, the two meet. where viewers will corne out of potential to be a great comedy There is an unwritten rule in could enjoy the same rewards as As partners, they discover that the theater not being able to team, like Richard Pryor and Gene Hollywood that you've got to be other writers had. And by signing Guard Dog Security is owned by remember any good one-liners, Wilder, as proven by their best wary of any movie mat Judy John Candy to the starring role, the mob kingpin, Micheal because there really aren'r any. scene, where the twosome find Landers shows up in. In this film Ramis knew those profits would Carlino, and is being used to Candy, no doubt following the themselves in a sex shop. she plays the dumb blonde to be like taking candy from a baby. transport illegal cash transactions. script, portrays Dooley as a However, one scene does not perfection. But then, she's been Columbia Pictures, seeing the Together, Frank and Norman bumbling fool in the opening make a movie. playing a dumb blonde for a huge money maker that it could decide to unveil the mob's scenes, yet in the rest of the Robert Loggia plays a poor decade now. Sort of tells you be, greedily secured all rights to activities and thereby re-establish movie he is seen as an intuitive, man's godfather, the mob kingpin something about her, doesn't it? • the film. Remis, sipping a their honor to society. cunning ex-cop. Come on guys, Micheal Carlino. Loggia The audience realizes how bad this tequila by his pool, believed he Armed and Dangerous' plot is which is he? John Candy seems overplays the Italian mobster role movie is when the best utterance was set for life. somewhat interesting, but the to be falling into that same trap to the extent that it becomes she can manage is, "See, no tan The above description is script and most of the actors are of signing on to do ridiculous ridiculous. He jumps up and line". probably a fairly accurate account plagued with problems. Candy movies, as did Tom Hanks and down in rage, orders his hitmen to This movie comes equipped of how Ramis brought his movie and Levy show glimpses of real Chevy Chase. Candy definitely "off' people. and chokes various with only a few jokes, and even to it's own to life. A few months ago, promise as a comedy team goes scur.in this movie. cohorts by the tie. Candy utters those are hazardous of my friends Columbia Pictures released his throughout the film, but the Levy suffers the same fate. one of the funnier lines of the well-being. One when summed creation, Armed and Dangerous, at script doesn't allow them the He wants Norman 10 be funny but movie about Loggia "I bet you best it up he theaters nationwide. However, freedom to succeed. the script just won't let him. As five bucks he knows where proclaimed, "This movie's they overlooked one little Candy, who can make people the movie progresses, you'll feel Jimmy Hoffa's grave is". The pathetic!". problem. Though the movies laugh by doing just about sorry that this movie may bring line should have been, "I bet you Armed and Dangerous from which Ramis borrowed anything humanly possible, is about a premature end to an five bucks he knows his acting's certainly earns its title. Viewing concepts weren't bad, his result straitjacketed by this script. He otherwise promising career for going to bury this movie". It's it may be hazardous to your was another story ... reels off the majority of the jokes, Levy. 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