The Guttenberg Toronto Principle

Over at the Torontoist comes the another installment in their new column, Reel Toronto, looking at US films in which our lovely city stands in for major American cities. The first installment looked at POLICE ACADEMY 3: BACK IN TRAINING, and set the following core principle: "Toronto's Hollywood success can be directly traced to the career of Steve Guttenberg."

And in the current installment the principle is re-enforced by, "If there is a movie that proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is SHORT CIRCUIT 2 (despite Guttenberg's absence)." Read more here... (and captions are from the column - can't take credit for these).

"Screw progress. Seedy Yonge Street lives forever on celluloid."

"I know New York City. I've been to New York City. You, sir, are no New York City."

"Don't be fooled by the flag! The Yanks think a few Stars 'n' Stripes
and some USA Today boxes on the the sidewalk will trick us."

Past columns have looked at: UNDERCOVER BROTHER; AMERICAN PSYCHO; THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT; and GOOD WILL HUNTING.