Product: Magic [VHS] (1978)
Rating: 1.0
More Ham-O-Rama Theatrics From Sir Anthony
Whenever anyone I know blathers on about how great an actor Sir Anthony Hopkins is, I tell them to stick this in the VCR. It's a horror movie, alright: a horror to sit through. lt's Battle of the Uncured Hams as Sir Anthony, Ann-Margret and Burgess Meredith act up a storm on a script that should have never seen the light of day. Fats the Dummy is unquestionably the best actor in this movie but regrettably has to share scenes with the aforementioned actors; if only Fats had been able to break away from Sir Anthony's arm earlier in the movie and massacred the entire cast, I'd be writing a five-star rating instead of this. If you need convincing that Hopkins' success in "Silence of the Lambs" was just a fluke and that he is indeed just another tough slice of fatty Welsh ham, watch a double feature of this and "Legends of the Fall"; Hopkins is like some Monty Python grotesque played for pathos instead of comedy.