davy (07/27/82)
#N:pur-ee:7000010:000:1042 pur-ee!davy Jul 27 11:25:00 1982 Young Doctors In Love (Rated 'R' - I'm sure this time) Review in a sentence: Not too bad; not as good as "Airplane", but still enjoyable. Review in a paragraph (or 3): "Young Doctors in Love" is the new movie from the producers of "Airplane". Basically, it's the story of a group of interns at City Hospital, and what they go through. The style is very much like that of "Airplane" (in fact, they even use the "White Zone/Red Zone" joke again). There are a couple of running gags, as there were with Airplane, along with a love story, a story of a Mafia man and his executioner, a story of a doctor with financial troubles, and the romance between a doctor and the "stuck up" nurse, who turns out to be a "beauty?". All in all, just like a soap opera. YDiL certainly isn't the best movie to come out this summer, but it also isn't the worst. If you can get in for less than full price, or if you've seen everything else, go see it. You won't be disappointed. --Dave Curry decvax!pur-ee!davy ucbvax!pur-ee!davy
randals@sri-unix (07/30/82)
On the contrary, Young Doctors in Love is *NOT*, repeat *NOT* done
by the people who did "Airplane".
YDiL is a cheap, ripoff, imitation of the Airplane-style spoof that
Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and (somebody else, sorry!) made so popular
last summer. They also did the "Police Squad" series, which started
out great and went downhill (I never laughed so hard at a T.V. show).
YDiL has its (few) great gags, such as the (very humorous) timely
reference to E.T., and some interesting refs to video games.
But overall, you have to wade through quite a bit of dead time
to get to the funny stuff. And then, the funny stuff didn't seem
quite worth the wait. I was amazed at the fact that they didn't do
any real "canned" jokes, I mean that most of the stuff were jokes
that I hadn't heard before.
At least Airplane and Police Squad # 1 were continuously-hot material.
On a 1 to 10 spoof rating, with Airplane being a 10, I'd give YDiL a 4.
(I'd give Student Bodies, done by yet-another group, a 6, just FYI.)
Randal L. Schwartz
Tektronix Microcomputer Development Products
Beaverton, Oregon, USA
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