Trapped in Paradise may not be a great film – it may not even be a particularly good film – but it’s quite a solid Christmas film if you, unlike Roger Ebert, can overlook all the police car crashes.
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I watched this numerous times as a youngster without any idea it was so critically reviled. I guess it doesn’t make sense that a small town would have numerous squad cars to dispose of, but that didn’t occur to me at the time. I thought Dana Carvey was hilarious, although fortunately that did not lead me to watch “Master of Disguise” later. I think this was the first thing I saw Nicolas Cage in, though as the straight-man he wasn’t as memorable as the brothers from SNL.
I watched this numerous times as a youngster without any idea it was so critically reviled. I guess it doesn’t make sense that a small town would have numerous squad cars to dispose of, but that didn’t occur to me at the time. I thought Dana Carvey was hilarious, although fortunately that did not lead me to watch “Master of Disguise” later. I think this was the first thing I saw Nicolas Cage in, though as the straight-man he wasn’t as memorable as the brothers from SNL.