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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)

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Sacrificial Ham, 23 November 2005

Author: dunmore_ego from Los Angeles, California

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During this movie, Tom Hanks' head took out a restraining order on his hairstyle. His head won the case, which is why halfway through the film, Hanks sports a halfway decent 'do – the old hairstyle finding a home on Whitney Houston's head, of which Houston is still unaware.

Meg Ryan has three different hairstyles, playing three separate characters; though it alludes to her talent, each character is only a variation on the ingratiating coquette persona we have all grown to grimace over.

Diagnosed with a "brain cloud" which leaves him only months to live, Hanks is conned into leaping into a volcano to appease an island god. Under this surface premise, there is political intrigue and other such overwhelmingly inane minutiae – purely McGuffin, as the film stabs at philosophizing over Life itself. I'm afraid I might have fallen asleep, but I'm more afraid that I might have been awake and only *thought* I was asleep. Philosophy, I can appreciate; quirky, I can appreciate – add "romance" to the mix and skew everything with irrationality over repressing bodily fluids.

Long before "Cast Away", Hanks here finds himself adrift on an endless ocean with nothing but a mindless entity for companionship – Meg Ryan.

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