The old luggage mix-up at the airport: yes -- truth in labelling -- the bag of the Mob hatchet man does indeed contain graphic proof of a successful "hit" (eight of them), and it is soon in the possession of a med student on Mexican holiday with his future in-laws. …
Animated adventure about a self-absorbed South American monarch (David Spade, irritating even when only a voice) who is enlighteningly transformed into a llama. Made in the latter-day Disney style -- brassy, sassy, myopically "modern" -- and on the latter-day accelerated production schedule: thus the simplified graphics and limited cast of …
Five tired comic actors (Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, David Spade, in approximate order of increasing lassitude), in a matchingly washed-out image, assemble for the funeral of their childhood basketball coach, panning for a few grains of middle-aged masculine truth and coming up completely empty, everything strained, …
The lively undead. Yes, that's the legendary Mel Brooks you hear lending his voice to Great-Grandpa Vlad in director Genndy Tartakovsky's sequel to his human boy-meets-monster girl romantic comedy for kids, Hotel Transylvania. Maybe that explains the relentless, unending, benumbing avalanche of gags (visual and otherwise), puns, and one-liners — …
David Spade's "white-trash idiot" looks all right in the externals: the metal-band T-shirts, the haircut "like Jane Fonda in Klute." But his creamy-nougat center seems dictated by Adam Sandler's Secrets of Success (Sandler, indeed, is one of the executive producers); and the hot blonde in blue-jean cutoffs (Brittany Daniel: she …
Officially, Port Chester University. More descriptively, Politically Correct University. Until it turns into Party Central University, and beer, drugs, and George Clinton unite the motley factions (excluding the preppie Republicans). A last alias: Piddling Comedy University. With Jeremy Piven, Chris Young, David Spade, and Jessica Walter; directed by Hart Bochner.