Gene Siskel: Self - Host

Executive Decision/Ed/Two Much/The Star Maker/Land and Freedom

Self - Host

Gene Siskel - Host: And our next film is a baseball comedy called "Ed", and it's just plain awful. I don't know HOW you can so thoroughly screw up a kid's film about baseball and a monkey.
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Gene Siskel - Host: I stared at long sections of "Ed", and seconds later, I couldn't tell you WHAT I saw. Director Bill Couturié lingers on scenes long after they've lost any interest; screenwriters Ken Richards and David Mickey Evans have created a script without laughs. Matt LeBlanc is a hot actor with his TV show "Friends"; if his agent suggested he make his starring debut in "Ed", well, maybe it's time for a new agent, because "Ed" is just awful.
Roger Ebert - Host: Well, it IS just awful, Gene. I WOULD like to make a footnote.
[Gene chuckles]
Roger Ebert - Host: You were saying, "Who would laugh at this: Adults or kids?" I believe that some of the bathroom humor and some of the slapstick humor and some of the cornball humor involving the monkey WOULD appeal to younger kids. I think when I was six or seven, it would've appealed to me. That was before I really...
Gene Siskel - Host: Before you reached eight.
Roger Ebert - Host: Before I reached eight, good, very good line. But, uh, apart from that little gap there, the kindergarten set, who might enjoy this movie, who MIGHT enjoy this movie, I agree with you, it's awful, let's move on.