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Article: `RENAISSANCE MAN' NEEDS MORE LAUGHS, WIT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1994
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Byline: TODD CAMP Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Penny Marshall's ``Renaissance Man'' is a comedy without enough laughs, a weeper without enough tears and a message movie with a mediocre moral.
That said, it's also not as bad as it sounds. It's just not as a good as it could be.
Danny DeVito is former ad pitchman Bill Rago, reduced to collecting unemployment checks when his lackluster work attitude lands him out on his ear. Unsuited for practically anything else, Bill takes a teaching job at a nearby Army base.
The downside is, he's given students who are too stupid to hack basic training. His platoon of slow-witted soldiers dubbed the ...