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Some critics bemoan Starship 's grotesque violence and glorification of a "happily fascist world" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Others consider it a witty sendup of action movies, with fabulous special effects and campy characters: "a cheerfully lobotomized, always watchable experience" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the official Starship Troopers site.)
That's a trick question, because her best performance, in Basic Instinct (1992), was essentially a comic turn--a lusty, glittery-eyed sendup of film noir femmes fatales . Here she starts promisingly, looking odd and imposing in her caftans, childishly impervious to the absurdity of her demands.
) The book, they say, is a witty sendup of therapeutic literature, and it also serves as a "seriously legitimate guide for the perplexed" (Benito Rakower, the Washington Post ). Critics also recommend it as a sort of highbrow Cliff's Notes : "You don't need to have read Proust in order to read this book; in fact, once you've read de Botton you don't need to read it at all" (Richard Klein, Voice Literary Supplement ).
It's a sendup of the old model, but in a different way than, say, Hustler was, and the difference (surprise) reflects the sexual culture of the '90s.
The title of his sendup of abstract expressionism, Painting with Two Balls (1960)--and there they are, squeezed forlornly between two big panels of drips and brushstrokes--is about as explicit as Johns ever gets.