寻爱记

　　Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up.
　　This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine).
　　It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?

　　康德公爵（让•雷诺 Jean Reno饰）是12世纪的贵族，这天他前来城堡与公主订婚，却遭到奸人迫害。他的酒杯里被投下巫婆的毒药，让他喝下了迷魂药。神志不清中，康德杀死了公主，被抓入大牢。
　　仆人安德烈（克里斯汀•克拉维尔 Christian Clavier饰）去找巫师，让康德回到事件之前。但是，粗心的巫师却抓错了药，结果康德和安德烈去到了21世纪的芝加哥。他们遇上了康德的后人朱莉亚（克里斯蒂娜•艾伯盖特 Christina Applegate 饰），得知如果他们不及时回到12世纪，罗萨琳公主将无法复活，后人就会消失。但是安德烈却乐不思蜀了。他和一个女孩打得火热，并不大愿意回到12世纪。然而时间不等人，康德的归去越来越迫切，而安德烈却还在温柔乡里磨蹭。事情越来越棘手。