Review – Protocol

Goldie Hawn plays a stereotypical ditzy blonde. What a stretch. This time around she’s a cocktail waitress who saves the life of a visiting dignitary and ends up a national hero. Her newfound fame lands her a job at the State Department as a protocol officer. The resulting situation comedy is more than a little stupid. It also takes advantage of some fairly coarse clichés about people of West Asian origin, and ends up with a big dose of sanctimonious preaching. The genuinely amusing moments are few and far between, scarcely justifying the overall production. See if desperate