Review – The 'Burbs

Though in general I like director Joe Dante’s work, this one’s just a bit too silly for my taste. Tom Hanks – back when he was still small enough to play roles like this – stars as a guy whose quiet week of home-bound vacation is disrupted by the sudden appearance of creepy new neighbors. The plot consists of a long series of set-ups for bad physical comedy. Overall the whole quirky-suburbanites-versus-the-Addams-Family thing comes nowhere near sustaining the picture’s running time. See if desperate