Full Metal Jacket/Spaceballs/Roxanne/Benji the Hunted

Gene Siskel - Host: "Benji the Hunted" exhausted me. It was the first time I wanted to tell a dog to stop to smell the flowers. I can't recommend "Benji the Hunted".

Roger Ebert - Host: Well, there is a little suspense in the movie, for example, will Benji be able to protect those cougar cubs until they get big enough to eat him, but I don't know, Gene, your review is the typical sort of blase, sophisticated, cynical review...

Gene Siskel - Host: I'll take the word "sophisticated".

Roger Ebert - Host: ...That I would expect from an adult. This movie is not for adults, this movie is for children...

[Gene tries to talk]

Roger Ebert - Host: I can remember when it was like to be six years old, eight years old...

Gene Siskel - Host: So can I.

Roger Ebert - Host: ...To see a movie that's 90 minutes long, only has about 100 words of dialogue, it's about a dog in the wilderness, beautiful photography, cute little cougar cubs you mentioned, the magnificence of the other animals...

Gene Siskel - Host: Roger.

Roger Ebert - Host: ...Adventures, the little kittens crossing the stream, the very shot you pointed out. This is a movie that kids will really enjoy.

Gene Siskel - Host: No, you know what they'd rather see, Roger? My rebuttal of this film is, you're wrapping yourself in the flag of children, and I'm saying go see "The Black Stallion" instead. There's a film with little dialogue that's so much better.

Roger Ebert - Host: Hold on! I'm not wrapping myself up in the flag of children, you're wrapping yourself in the flag of the sophisticated film critic who's seen it all.

Gene Siskel - Host: No, boredom, boredom with Benji running!

Roger Ebert - Host: I don't think that any child is gonna be bored by this movie, and indeed, I found the nature photography to be very interesting myself.

Gene Siskel - Host: I recommend films for kids that are good, "The Black Stallion" is a great film, this is garbage.

Roger Ebert - Host: Oh, well I recommend films for kids that are bad, but I'll tell you what, whether it's good or bad, I think kids will really enjoy it.