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zany and the sci-fi parody is mostly pleasant.”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Woody Allen (”Annie Hall”/”Take the Money and Run”/”Zelig”) loads
up his futuristic sci-fi comedy with slapstick, sight gags, Mack Sennett-inspired
chases and one-liners. The mild comedy antics are zany and the sci-fi parody
is mostly pleasant, but the comedy never soars or has much bite. Marshall
Brickman is the co-writer with Allen.
The nebbish Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) is the co-owner of the Happy
Carrot Health Food Restaurant in Greenwich Village and clarinet jazz musician
who goes into St. Vincent’s Hospital for a minor ulcer operation and wakes
up 200 years later in a capsule after complications develop and his cousin
has him frozen. Miles finds that he’s in 2173 and stuck in a fascist police
state and that cigarettes are found to be healthy and that NYC teachers
union head Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear device and blew up most
of the United States. He’s revived by Dr. Orva (Bartlett Robinson) and
Dr. Melik (Mary Gregory), who unwrap Miles from his tin-foil and find him
staggering around disorientated. The radical doctors, opposing their tyrant
leader, plan to use Miles, who has no record, to penetrate the State Labs
and uncover the secrets of the Aries Project. The apolitical Miles is reluctant
to join their cause telling them “I was beaten up by Quakers.” But the
police raid the gadget-heavy place and force Miles to flee, while the doctors
are captured. The mini-helicopter he hops into gets stuck in a tree and
he’s forced to hide in a robot repair van disguised as a robot.
While on the run, Miles encounters self-satisfied party-giver, composer
of greeting cards and poetess Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) and through
unusual circumstances the apolitical poetess teams up with the alien to
work for the underground. Miles encounters humanoid robots, a metal ball
known as “The Orb” which makes one aroused, 12 foot-high veggies, and a
self-inducing orgasm machine called the “The Orgasmatron.”
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Some of Allen’s better quips include: “Norman Mailer donated his
ego to Harvard Medical School,” “Billy Graham is big in religious circles.
He knew God personally,” and when waking from his Rip Van Winkle slumber
he says “I knew it was too good to be true, I had a parking spot right
next to the hospital.”
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