“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Sunday, March 25, 2018
A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)
aka Galacticop, aka Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm, aka Upworld
In this film, gnomes live underground and have power crystals that have to be brought to sunlight on occasion to recharge. A cop played very unconvincingly by Anthony Michael Hall (I mean, he looks like a kid. Jerry Orbach, who always played cops, is in this and looks the part) finds the crystal - I think his partner's killed in a drug-related shoot-out and Hall finds it accidentally, but then it gets taken by more bad guys. Anyway, Hall and the gnome end up being partnered in this buddy film in an attempt to recover the crystal. Robert Z'Dar, sporting a mullet, shows up as a bad guy. There's no chemistry between the leads. While the film seems to be targeted to children, the gnome is ugly and fawns over breasts and butts and there are scenes really inappropriate for children, especially in the version called "Upworld," which includes some strippers. It's a passable action film, but highly derivative and not very interesting. Sam Winston directed and he's done both better and worse in other films.
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