They are jumping too soon or too late and hitting the posts and radial bars, doing cartoon climbs up each other's back, and what kind of
stupes must they look like to people at the hot dog stand on the other side of the turnstiles, what kind of awful screwups--a line of mostly men beginning to glance this way, jaws working at the sweaty meat and grease bubbles flurrying on their tongues, the gent at the far end going dead-still except for a hand that produces automatic movement, swabbing on mustard with a brush.
Billed as "Wayne's World" meets "Network," pic is conceptually closer to "Airheads," except this time the nice "terrorists" aren't meant to be total
stupes. If only they had something real to say.
By baring his palm and fixing folks with glowing eyes, Apophis can turn people into
stupes. Most authoritative member of the cast, Williams moves craftily through his part as though he's discovered something of substance there.