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Kevin Costner has made his share of "el stinkos" but this one is a pleasant surprise. It has a story and works toward telling it and has a neat ending. What else does one ask for these days for eight bucks?

Believe me the "New Age" trend is not without pit falls. The Sixth Sense was only good for a single showing and then you got the whole planet knowing the "catch". At least in Dragonfly the zinger isn't the whole trick. There was one thing that did sort of bug me. The indigenous natives show up in one scene with AK-47's in hand while in full native feathers and ear pierces. Next they are in a near stone age village with wooden spears and long arrow bows. I wondered where the AK-47 guys were?

This is an OK movie and sure Kathy Bates is rather wasted as are some other fairly neat roles such as the pilot of the small plane....But that is what you get these days with the inmates running the asylum. A big name star picks a script and it becomes a movie...or does it????

I see movies that are dubbed "hilarious" and "laugh riots" and all sorts of other hypes ...that when I go to them and they stink up the theater I really feel ripped off.

This one lives up to the hype and then some. The only thing that anyone could find "wrong" with this one is ....It is very "liberal" in those fundamentalist no-no areas called S-E-X-. In fact it is about sex, or the lack there of for one guy and it deals with the power games associated with the oldest "war" of mankind's history...the war between the sexes.

We saw it tonight at a "sneak" and the place was full of MTV type kids. They loved it and I have to tell you I did too.

I rated it a seven which is exponentially higher than I rate most comedy fare these days.

One could nit-pick and say the editing was lame...it was. One could make a case for other "craft" related criticisms...but you know it is funny and that is more than can be said for most comedy efforts these days.

So go see it and have a good laugh. If you tend to be a little stiff about sexual subjects stay home...Sorry about the pun...it was one before I realized it...I laughed a lot and I think you might too.

I read The Lord of the Rings more years ago than I want to count. I also saw a weak effort to make part of it into a movie in 1978..."el stinko"!! But this time I was bolstered by the early reviews and my wife and I went tonight. She had never read the book and she thought it was just barely passable and too long. I remembered how I visualized Froto Baggins and I have got to say my mental picture wasn't Elijah Wood. Conversely my minds view of Bilbo Baggins was Ian Holm to a tee or vice versa.

The special effects and Middle Earth were better then I imagined them as were many of the other effects and battle scenes. Yet I have mixed feelings about this effort. If I have to wait until next Christmas for part two it will be a drag, plus knowing that it is already "in the can" makes me wonder if the studio is just waiting to see before deciding on a February release on part two? Either way for we of the 60 plus million who have purchased the book, we are hooked to see the next two parts and those who haven't read the stories will likely not be back anyway, so why wait? This is good work on a very hard subject to convert to the screen.