Dumb but very funny.
Added 9/18/2009
This is one dopey movie but Steve Martin is perfect in this role. Super, mindless fun. So dopey it is great.
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Ranks Right Up There With Martin's Funniest
Added 3/17/2009
Here is another Carl Reiner-directed "farce" that also stars Steve Martin (the two collaborated before in the '80s in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"). This is the best of that duo with a lot of laugh-out loud scenes. There are tons of gags, both obvious and subtle. In fact, I think is one of Martin's funniest performances.
I had remembered this as a strictly light comedy but was surprised when I viewed it again this year and heard all the sex jokes. Reiner turned out to be a dirty old man but he write and direct some very funny movies. It's unusual for a comedy to be rated "R," but that was the appropriate rating. If you know and don't care if its a bit raunchy, this is a very funny movie.
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awesome in an 80's late night movie sorta way
Added 9/7/2008
Steve Martin is so funny and so underrated, it's a shame. Only 'The Jerk' rates higher on my Steve Martin comedy-o-meter. He has a very distinct sense of humor, so if you're a fan you'll love this movie. One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time. Yes, it's that good.
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I had not seen this movie in a long time and it was great to share this movie with my family. I laughed as much today as I did when I saw it last. It was a great buy, would reccomend it to all my friends to see.
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My favorite Steve Martin film betrayed by mediocre DVD.
Added 3/11/2008
I encourage anyone who likes Steve Martin in ANYTHING to get this; I believe it's easily his most consistently funny film, and actually has something to say about relationships. I believe, at the time, "All of Me" was a more "successful" Steve Martin film than this, and conveyed basically the same message. Coming after the funnier and more original "The Man with Two Brains," that film seemed very derivitive and inferior to me.
I paid more for the shipping on this purchase from one of the Amazon affiliated sellers than I did for the actual DVD, so I don't feel as bad; but, I would have been willing to pay full going rate if I would have had the option of buying this in the original format, instead. I would feel like a chump to pay more than $2 plus shipping for any motion picture that was re-edited by some hack technician.
Given that we are the universe of people who care enough about cinema to buy individual titles on DVD, I am angry that they don't give us enough credit to be willing to watch them in any format other than what fills up a standard aspect ratio television tube. It feels like the only restaurant in town deciding that we, the public, are too pedestrian to appreciate anything that can't be offerred as all-you-can-eat, trough-style.
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Dumb but very funny.
Added 9/18/2009
This is one dopey movie but Steve Martin is perfect in this role. Super, mindless fun. So dopey it is great.
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Ranks Right Up There With Martin's Funniest
Added 3/17/2009
Here is another Carl Reiner-directed "farce" that also stars Steve Martin (the two collaborated before in the '80s in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"). This is the best of that duo with a lot of laugh-out loud scenes. There are tons of gags, both obvious and subtle. In fact, I think is one of Martin's funniest performances.
I had remembered this as a strictly light comedy but was surprised when I viewed it again this year and heard all the sex jokes. Reiner turned out to be a dirty old man but he write and direct some very funny movies. It's unusual for a comedy to be rated "R," but that was the appropriate rating. If you know and don't care if its a bit raunchy, this is a very funny movie.
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awesome in an 80's late night movie sorta way
Added 9/7/2008
Steve Martin is so funny and so underrated, it's a shame. Only 'The Jerk' rates higher on my Steve Martin comedy-o-meter. He has a very distinct sense of humor, so if you're a fan you'll love this movie. One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time. Yes, it's that good.
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