Trapped in Paradise
by George Gallo
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Actor: Dana Carvey, Florence Stanley, Jon Lovitz, Mädchen Amick, Nicolas CageDirector: George Gallo
Brand: Fox
Cinematographer: Jack N. Green
Producer: George Gallo
Writer: George Gallo
Producer: David Coatsworth
Producer: David Permut
Producer: Ellen Fontana
Producer: Jon Davison
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Trapped in Paradise
DVD Review: Mediocre holiday crime-comedy is less than the sum of its parts
Summary: 2 Stars
Nicolas Cage has made some of the best movies I've ever seen - "Raising Arizona" in particular is near and dear to my heart, but "Lord of War" and "Leaving Las Vegas" also belong in the pantheon of Movies Worth Seeing.
I can only imagine that his younger self was dreaming of movies like those while he was schlepping away on "Trapped in Paradise." Working along side "SNL" alums Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz, who never turned their TV promise into Hollywood magic (excepting Carvey's Garth, of course, but that was a mere extension of his SNL character), Cage gets to go through the motions in this formulaic caper-comedy.
Cage plays the straightest of three crooked brothers. Lovitz is - shockingly - a lying boor and Carvey is a kleptomaniac whose most annoying feature isn't his need to steal, it's his grating voice. I don't use their characters' names because they are completely irrelevant and never emerge as characters in their own right. Through a cock-and-bull story Lovitz convinces Cage to go along on the world's easiest bank robbery. But this is a Christmas movie - and one without the savage glee of "The Ref" - so after knocking over the only bank in a small town full of Small Town Goodness, Cage and his brothers get religion and try to give the money back.
Supposedly-comic hi-jinx ensue, but to little end, no purpose, and fewer laughs. A "dramatic" high-speed chase involving inept policemen, FBI agents, and a horse-drawn sleigh is so obviously-staged you can almost see the stage hands blowing snow in the actors' faces during closeups while the stunt guys are plainly visible during the action shots.
A laughingly half-hearted romance clogs up what remains of this surprisingly profane movie, which except for some gratuitous swearing belongs squarely in the safe PG bin.
If you're looking for a good holiday film and you've worn out your copy of "A Christmas Story," stay away from this one. Watching the holiday special for "Iron Chef America: Battle Egg Nog" is time better spent.
The movie is saved from one star only by my hunch that the sunglasses Cage dons during the robbery are the same shades he wore in "Valley Girl." Not exactly a high point for cinema, but a high water mark for this movie.
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