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A SIMPLE WISH is well-cast, I'll give it that. Martin Short is the perfect choice for a bumbling fairy godmother (hey, it's the nine- ties) who botches his first assignment, granting a wish to a little girl (Myra Wilson) whose father (Robert Pastorelli) is an aspiring New York City stage actor. And who else would you want but Kath- leen Turner as the evil godmother-turned-Wicked Witch of the West Side, out to claim his (and every other good witch's) wand? Short is, at times, passable, but Ms. Turner is great fun. Her character gets the shaft on screen time, though, and that's a loss. The rest of this crap is strictly for kids, with wit of the squirting-cat- sup-bottle-in-the-face variety. (Okay, okay, there *is* an inspir- ed encounter between Short, Wilson, and a Nebraska redneck, but that's about it.) One hour was more than enough for me. I left around the time that a character began vomiting computer-generated frogs. Did I miss a scene of someone farting fish? (Rated "PG"/90 min.) Grade: W/O Copyright 1997 Michael J. Legeros Movie Hell is a trademark of Michael J. Legeros
Originally posted to triangle.movies in MOVIE HELL: July 13, 1997