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Tuesday, September 17, 1991 The Battalion Page 7 17 , It bs n 8 atr Jtetot : their;; so % -gree, ■ os show ntsher; re." ure hoi; will m: : of pec ; ■omni'r:. arspec irandrj id/a, ecurer The Commitments’ falls short in developing characters, plot, theme By Kevin Robinson The Battalion It's a general rule that I can usually tell whether or not I'm going to like a movie by the first half hour or so. However, it's not until the very end of Alan Parker's new film, "The Commitments," that I began to feel a lit tle disappointed. New musicians attempt revival of Motown 1 s soul music By Rob Newberry The Battalion ents tl^ care as cari It wasn't that the film hadn't been good up until that point. It was. But that was when I realized that Parker and screenwriter Roddy Doyle had created a two hour movie that was only a beginning to a film. Characters had been introduced and were starting to interact. Situ ations and conflicts had been created that needed reso lutions. There were some interesting sub-plots that seemed certain to resurface. And then Parker pulls the rug out from underneath the audiences feet. The movie's over. The credits roll. "The Commitments" tells the story of Jimmy Rabitte (Robert Arkins). Jimmy's growing up in a poor, work ing class neighborhood in northern Dublin. Aside from collecting the occasional unemployment check , Jimmy and his friends escape from the boredom of everyday life through music. After seeing the drunken Deco (An- See COMMITMENTS/Page 8 "The Commitments" Motion Picture Soundtrack MCA Twentieth Century Fox's new film "The Commit ments" preaches that soul music can provide the salva tion that Dublin, Ireland's working class needs. But try ing to make a bunch of old Motown tunes "bom again" by getting a dozen new musicians to cover them doesn't make me a cpnvert. I seem to recall something about "old wine in new wineskins" still being "old wine." Deco (Andrew Strong) screams his way through Wilson Picket's "In the Midnight Hour" in "The Commitments The soundtrack to the film is just that - fourteen cov er songs orignally done by soul music's best artists. There are tunes by Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding among others, and the twelve-member band tries hard to inject them with new life. Andrew Strong's vocals provide the dominant sound on half the tunes. Strong's vocal style is so fear fully close to Joe Cocker's that the whole project seems like it might be just that - a "Joe Cocker does Motown" kind of thing. With the back-up harmonies and See SOUNDTRACK/Page 8 an the Battalion ^r i * ! _ I a/f:! l -COUPON- : fts RESTAURANT & CANTINA BUY 1 ENTREE GET D ENTREE FREE | Buy a dinner entree of your choice and get a second dinner entree of ifcqual or lesser value FREE with this coupon! I I I J POST OAK MALL West entrance of mall between Service Merchandise and Dillard's 764-0933 "WHEN YOU CRAVE GREAT MEXICAN FOOD!" 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