

Dretzka By Gary DretzkaDretzka@moviecitynews.com
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Although “Solo: A Star Wars Story” overflows with action – chases, shootouts, combat – the movie’s greatest appeal is to “Star Wars” obsessives, who will enjoy identifying the dozens of references and homages to previous installments in the saga. The Kasdans’ screenplay also adds humorous elements to the narrative, which occasionally gets bogged down in myth building.
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Another unexpected transition brings us to a beach on the rugged Oregon coast, where Samuel lifts a large box off a rowboat. It contains a miniature horse, Butterscotch, that he plans to give to Penelope as a wedding gift. (Substitute a piano for the horse and the scene recalls Jane Campion’s The Piano.)
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When a movie is set in the Outback, it tends to take on the characteristics of a Western. It doesn’t matter if there isn’t a horse in sight, because the usual laws don’t apply in a land where kangaroos outnumber human beings and, it’s said, everything else wants to kill you.
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In an extreme example of either creative or coincidental casting, Toni Collette plays Annie, the daughter of a woman who suffered from the same dissociative-identity disorder as her character in Showtime’s “United States of Tara.” Her son and daughter will be affected by mysterious life-threatening occurrences, as well.
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