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Article: DINOS AND FLYING SQUIRRELS AND MUTANTS - OH MY!(L.A. Life)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- April 30, 2000
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Byline: Bob Strauss and Glenn Whipp Film Writers
The first summer movie season of the new millennium is, appropriately enough, overstuffed with entertainments claiming astonishing new visions and technological breakthroughs.
You'll believe dinosaurs can talk, a squirrel can fly and Eddie Murphy can play six comically obese people all at once. Or, perhaps, you won't, but that will not be due to lack of effort and expense on Hollywood's part.
But this summer should also be richer than most in, of all things, human-scale drama and grown-up comedy. The independent and art house distributors, which have traditionally ceded the warm-weather months to ...