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Jersey Girl
Over the past few weeks I have received literally thousands of emails and letters and standard telegraphs all with one message - 'Indy, isn't the smash hit film Jersey Girl the most worthless piece of donkey vomit to ever appear in our cinemas?'
And of course that goes without saying. But what disturbs me more is the blatant ripping off of the 1998 smash hit classic Armageddon. All that lazy old Kevin Smith has done is replace a massive asteroid with a highly irritating child. And that should never be enough to escape the steely hand of plagiarism law.
Consider: in both movies, we have Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler as young lovebirds. In Armageddon, Liv is an elf princess of some description. In Jersey Girl she is a sex maniac of some description. Same thing. In Armageddon we have a small piece of asteroid destroying a space shuttle in the opening moments. In Jersey Girl, a small annoying child destroys J-Lo in the opening moments. How much difference, really, is there between a space shuttle and J-Lo?
In Armageddon Bruce Willis is the crusty old dad. In Jersey Girl, we settle for George Carlin, who has seemingly wandered onto the set dazed and confused. In Armageddon, a rag-tag team of miners lands on the massive asteroid and using a nuclear device blow it into a zillion tiny pieces. In Jersey Girl the exact same thing happens to the annoying little girl.
Or at least I assume it does. I walked out long before the ghastly thing got anywhere near its conclusion. You may not think much of that, but I was on a plane at the time.
Begone,
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