Barry SonnenfeldÕs need to show off super-dooper SFX contraptions (railroad car and giant spider) does not distract too much from the Smith-Klein chemistry in this fun Ulysses S. Grant-era sci-fi comedy about legless bad guy Kenneth Branaugh bargaining away U.S. territories with world governments Ñ intending to encapsulate the 1965-70 CBS TV series berplot. Salma Hayek shows some. Closing Fresh Prince title tune samples Stevie WonderÕs ÒI WishÓ (1976). Elmer Bernstein dances around his original main theme for an hour.
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