IF you are a Steve Martin fan, and it is nothing to be ashamed of, you will love All Of Me (World, 9.35pm). If you aren't, then there is still enough fun in parts to make it worth your while, as long as you can look beyond the vulgarities.
It is a curious film, little more in basic form than an attempt (by many of the same people) to go one better on The Man With Two Brains. But Martin's performance is one of his best. Without him heaven knows what might have happened. Lily Tomlin's character is, after all, a one-note creation.
Roger Cobb (Martin) is a guitar-playing attorney who is semi-engaged to the daughter of his boss at a large law firm. His most important client is the very rich, very ill Edwina Cutwater (Tomlin), who follows a Far Eastern mystic called Prahka Lasa (Richard Libertini, who starred alongside Robin Williams in Popeye, and looks anything but Asian).
He intends to transfer Cutwater's mind into the body of a beautiful young woman (Victoria Tennant) when she finally pegs out. The transfer goes wrong, the mind ends up in Cobb's body, and some jokes ensue. Cobb must now get the old lady out of his system, but how? Victoria Tennant, for collectors of useless information, made All Of Me after spending six years in New York as a housewife.
She had been born to a theatrical family - her mother was a prima ballerina - and grew up surrounded by great thesps, among them Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave and Vivien Leigh.
YOU get more mayhem for your dollar with Dark Angel (Pearl, 9.30pm), which is an aliens-on-the-rampage movie, but better than most of the genre thanks to some moments of wit and a number of unexpected twists in the plot. Dolph Lundgren stars as the Terminator type. Love interest courtesy of Betsy Brantley.
Critters 2 - The Main Course (Pearl, 1.30am) is furry-animals-on-the-rampage and even judged by the standards if the original is dull and boring. It makes Gremlins look like War And Peace.
