Gregg Berger Movies

Disgruntled, and highly dangerous, ex-KGB agent General Vostok once again poses a threat to mankind. On this occasion, Vostok has armed himself with the weapon that defeated Napoleon at the gates of Moscow -- a "freeze bomb." Holding the other team members hostage, Vostok demands that Dr. Quest make the weapon even more deadly than before. Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame is heard as the villainous Vostok. "General Winter" was first broadcast on March 26, 1997. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

During the Warsaw Tavern's traditional "Bust-a-Gut" night, Nicki (Kate Walsh) confesses that she used to be fat and now must watch her weight extremely carefully. Drew (Drew Carey) volunteers to support Nicki's dieting efforts by vowing to lose ten ponds--whereupon Mimi (Kathy Kinney) tells him to put his money where his mouth is. Trouble ensues when suspicions arise that Nicki lied to Drew about her weight problems just to pressure him into dieting--leading to a disillusioned Drew squaring off against a pig (a real one!) in a watermelon-eating contest. Meanwhile, Lewis (Ryan Stiles) is hosannahed as "Beer Boy" after plugging a leak in a gigantic Buzz Beer promotional mug. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Despite Helen's (Crystal Bernard) admonitions and trepidations, Roy (David Schramm) is eager and willing to marry Anya (Natasha Pavlovich), the mail-order bride he has ordered from Russia. Unfortunately for Roy, Anya falls out of love with him the second she meets another man. And in other developments, Lowell (Thomas Haden Church) is pressed into service as Fay's (Rebecca Schull) cardboard lover. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In a major stumbling block toward better international relations, America's most laughable police officers are sent to Russia to fight crime in this comedy. In Moscow, master criminal Konali (Ron Perlman) has marketed a new computer game that has an unusual hidden feature -- it allows him to bring down any security system controlled by a PC on which the game has been played, with a string of major robberies as the result. Russian Police Commandant Rakov (Christopher Lee) is at his wit's end about how to deal with the crisis, so he asks for help from the U.S. law enforcement community. However, Rakov's American allies turn out to be Lassard (George Gaynes), Harris (G.W. Bailey), and the rest of the crew from the Police Academy (among them Michael Winslow, David Graf, and Leslie Easterbrook). Claire Forlani also appears in a small role as a Russian beauty. This was the seventh and last film in the Police Academy series, following the departure of franchise loyalist Bubba Smith. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

The made-for-cable satirical comedy Running Mates is about a bachelor U.S. Senator named Hugh (Ed Harris), who falls in love with Aggie (Diane Keaton), a widowed children's author, while he is running for president. Though she hates politics, she finds something charming in the slick Hugh and agrees to marry him. Unfortunately, the press finds something suspicious within Aggie's past, and it could sink his campaign. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

This animated "spoof" has Garfield and Odie in this Indiana Jones adventure searching for the Banana of Bombay. ~ Rovi

The fourth and final season of the original Transformers cartoon series is actually a three-part miniseries titled "The Rebirth." The age-old war between the two rival Transformer factions, the Autobots and the Decepticons, takes the combatants to Nebulos, a planet controlled by evil telepaths. In the course of events, the lines of battle are blurred when, thanks to those aforementioned telepaths, several Decepticons, disguised as good-guy Autobots, infiltrate the other side. As the climax approaches, the fate of everyone concerned rests in the hands of the Autobots' human ally Spike -- with a bit of assistance from the revivified Optimus Prime, head of the Autobots, who has merged his intelligence and resources with the "super computer" Vector Sigma. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Join in the fun in this animated presentation of Garfield spending Christmas down on the farm. ~ Rovi

Season three of the cartoon series The Transformers opens with an elaborate five-part story (eminently suited to be "transformed" into a single two-hour TV movie), "The Five Faces of Darkness," set largely on Cybertron, home planet of the warring Autobots and Decepticons. This plotline serves to introduce a new human ally for the good-guy Autobots, Marrisa Fairborne of the Earth Defense Command. In other developments this season, the Autobots' earthling chum Spike, long married to a girl named Carly, inadvertently involves his son Daniel in the neverending Autobot-Cybertron conflict; the ghost of Decepticon Starstream goes on a relentless search for a new host body; and several new groups of characters are brought into the action, the better to sell more toys for the Hasbro company: among these are the Technobots, the Junkions, and the Quintessons. The season ends with a two-parter wherein Autobot mentor Optimus Prime, long presumed dead, makes a spectacular return in an all-out final(?) assault against the despicable Decepticons. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this animated film, the Littles--a family of half-man, half-mouse creatures living in the walls of human houses--aid a young boy whose parents have vanished. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi