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www.reelfilm.com - : Sadly, the title is the best thing about C.H.O.M.P.S., as the film is strictly for kids (who will undoubtedly get a kick out of the broad humor and rampant silliness on display). The storyline revolves around an inventor (played by Wesley Eure) whose latest creation is a robotic dog that can do just about anything, particularly in the realm of crime prevention. Of course, this being a Disney ripoff, there's a subplot involving a competitor's efforts to steal C.H.O.M.P.S. by dispatching a pair of inept thieves (one of them's played by Red Buttons, if that's any indication). C.H.O.M.P.S. is based on a story idea by Joseph Barbera (half of the famed Hanna-Barbera animation duo), and it seems fairly obvious that the film would have been more effective as a 22-minute cartoon; there's far too much padding here, primarily in the form of the two clumsy burglars and their wacky hijinks. more...
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www.moria.co.nz - : How Don Chaffey has comes down from the days when he directed films like Jason and the Argonauts (1963), even Hammer’s One Million Years B.C. (1966). This sub-Disney clone is an improbable co-production between Hanna-Barbera, creators of Yogi Bear and The Flintstones, and Roger Corman’s old home stables American International Pictures, and was construed as a big screen breakout vehicle for Valerie Bertinelli, then the teenage star of tv’s hit sitcom One Day at a Time (1975-84). more...
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