Martin Short as the sole male member of the National Association of Fairy Godmothers. (Subtle new stress on fairy: he wears his hair like the young Oscar Wilde.) There are some hopeful early signs -- the opening sequence of the written final exam for aspiring fairy godmothers; the star's discriminating mimicry of Jerry Lewis, especially around the rodenty front teeth; the gentle spoofery of an Andrew Lloyd Webberish musical adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities; the fine, funny work by Amanda Plummer as a sorceress's apprentice who retains some canine characteristics from her prior incarnation -- before tedium takes over. With Mara Wilson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Pastorelli; directed by Michael Ritchie. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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