There are some endearingly goofy moments in this comedy about psychics hired to find a world-changing `McGuffin' high in the Ecuador mountains. In the end, though, they don't add up to much without solid direction, decent special effects or a script that needs to back its barbs with some character and story development. You couldn't get a much more unorthodox hero and heroine than bug-eyed Goldblum and squeaky rock star Lauper, but neither of them wins our sympathy and it's left to Falk's unscrupulous rogue to give the affair some heart. `You should have slept with me,' he tells Lauper after she's rebuffed Goldblum at altitude. `What good would that have done? ' she squawks. Falk considers. `Well,' he replies, `it would have done me a lot of good.' Pena also scores briefly as a local femme fatale who strips off and asks Goldblum `You like? ' `Parts of me,' he pants, `are already applauding.' Scarps of gold, these, though, from a film that muffs pretty well all its chances.

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