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Hello everybody for yet another week I'm case Bowman with your Out & About Movie review. This weekend I saw the Robert De Niro (Heat), Dustin Hoffman (Outbreak) motion picture Wag The Dog. For all our hip hop loving fans this has nothing to do with Snoop, Nate, or any other rapping dogs you might know. Yes, Yes I know I was upset to find out too. The goal of both these mega-actors characters was to stage a fake war in order to cover up the news of the President of the United States (Michael Belson) sleeping with a Girl Scout. It's about twelve days to the election and that news won't fare well with the public. This is where staff member Robert De Niro (Conrad Brean) comes in. He is in charge of the staff to try to cover up the President's scandal. De Niro comes to Dustin Hoffman (Stanley Motss) who plays a big time movie producer. They decide to fake a war against Albania to increase popularity and provide other news because, honestly, who the hell knows anything about Albania? They hire the best in filmmakers to prepare a bit for the American people. If you're thinking hey that's sounds pretty funny, but wait, there's still about hour and fifteen minutes of under boredom. Well they go on and make up a war song composed by none other than Willie Nelson. I should've guessed my opinion of the movie when Willie Nelson is the early highlight of the picture, yeee, tax evading and all. Eventually the Albania government finds out and openly denies all allegations of the war. That puts a kink in the machine so our little midget friend Dustin Hoffman decides to make up a war hero, and we start all over again. For those people planning on going with a pacemaker, go ahead, nothing exciting happened here. I hope I didn't create too much more of a plot than was actually present, but if I did, I apologize. Frankly Wag The Dog had me wishing I were at home spanking the monkey or choking the chicken. I wasn't impressed with the acting and I wasn't impressed with the plot. The idea is cleaver enough and even rather comical, but Wag The Dog should have been put back on the old choke chain. In other words wait the three months and get it on video if you are mildly intrigued by the idea. Sadly the very funny Denis Leary (Fad King) had essentially no part in the movie, and his angry style of humor is held back as well. For any Whitehouse aides who might be watching, I suppose this is something to try before Clinton gets impeached. Hmmm, Monica Lewinsky, twelve year-old Girl Scout, I see a parallel. Anyway let's go off on a tangent then, shall we? To the leader of the free world, to the man with the nukem button, quite boingking everyone around you. And a special message to Buddy the dog, look out, it sounds like Bill is in heat. OK now that that's been taken care of, my final score for Wag The Dog is a sad four couches and a lazyboy, nearly half the score of last week's pick, Good Will Hunting. If you still haven't seen it, go now, well ok, at the end of the show check out Good Will Hunting. And that's it for this week's movie review Case Style. Make sure to check me out next week when I review the Denzel Washington picture Fallen.
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