Dudley Do-Right

(Universal)

Brendan Fraser (George of the Jungle) does his best to re-create the hapless Canadian Mountie of the title, and respectable efforts are also put in by Sarah Jessica Parker as his girlfriend Nell and Alfred Molina as the fiendish villain Snidely Whiplash. But Hugh Wilson's live-action version of Jay Ward's 1960s cartoon is still a dud. Ward, who also created Rocky and Bullwinkle, was a master of self-referential humor and goofy characters; his cartoons relied on clever dialogue, not loud pratfalls and gross sound effects.