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- Categories:Animal, Movie
- (C) 1999, 89 mins, PG-13, Shapeshifter, Action, Fantasy, On Video,
pub Kushner-Locke Company
Description
Unlike many flicks, this fantasy suffers from having too many ideas
shovelled into it. A teenaged boy travels to Romania to search for
his parents, who are CIA operatives kidnapped by some mysterious
fascist organization. While he's searching, he's instructed by a
300+ year old wizard in the art of shapeshifting, and during the
course of the movie he becomes a German shepard, a pigeon, and a
winged griffin, though the total on-screen transformation time is
less than two minutes. In addition to the transformations and the
wizard, the film also offers high-tech surveillance equipment, a
naked (and well-built) digitized artificial woman from the future,
a witch who shrinks the boy to eight inches in height (thus
qualifying him for another entry on this board) and then injects
herself into the Internet, a dictator who kills his enemies by
using a super-science weapon that reduces them to powder, and a
family of psychically-advanced dwarves who live in the sewers
beneath the city. If the scripters had gone with one -- or at most
two -- of these ideas, the result probably would have been more
coherent and entertaining, but the effects are pretty decent. Look
for it if you have nothing better to watch.
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originally posted by Macaroni on 2000-06-21, no edits, entryid=5318
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