Mr. Magoo

(Disney)

Mr. Magoo should be boycotted -- not because it ridicules the vision-impaired, but because it's so unfair to the legacy of the cartoon. Acclaimed Hong Kong director Stanley Tong (Rumble in the Bronxand co-screenwriter Pat Proft (who co-scripted The Naked Gun) inserts a few pale imitations of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker jokes. But they both forget Magoo. Where the cartoon character naively but gracefully slid through life, the flesh-and-blood Leslie Nielsen gets banged up and knocked around like one of the Stooges.