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TITLE |
Generation X (1996) (TV Film) |
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DISABILITY |
General
Mutation |
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NOTES |
This is
low-budget but that's not excuse enough for such |
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rubbish.
This film may appeal to those who read the comics |
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on which
this is based, or computer games freaks but who |
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else? The
acting is about as animated as that of 'Lara Croft' |
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(with whom
I'm only vaguely familiar, ask a games freak if you |
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want to know
who she is). The script has all permanence of |
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speech
bubbles, the costumes are straight off the comic strip, and the
special effects are pieces of coloured gelatine over the
spotlights. |
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A generation
of kids have grown up to be mutants. This |
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becomes
apparent, it seems, when they are teenagers so it |
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must be a
puberty thing. Each is taken from their parents to a |
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sort of
mutant academy. Each has different mutations or |
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powers. One
has limb elasticity, revealed when he says |
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good-bye to
his sister, she holds onto his hand as he is driven away and it
stretches and stretches. Lack of imagination is shown in the
second evocation of this 'quality' during a football (American
style) match. One girl has huge muscles which make her
self-conscious, another produces rays from her eyes,
another is a super-genius and arrogant with it so isn't too popular. |
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All the
forces are harnessed to battle a mad scientist who is |
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getting into
people's dreams. |
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Two faces
you might recognise; Matt Frewer played the |
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eponymous
"Max Headroom" in the wonderful British TV |
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series. He
can act but not here. |
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Finola
Hughes was the snooty dancer in "Staying Alive" (1983)and hasn't
been seen much since. |
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Notes
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