Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

videorama-759-859391 Is this supposed to be a comedy. Really? I didn't know. It can't be. This film takes itself way too seriously, at times, it's actually hard to grasp it is a comedy. It's a espionage comedy with hardly any comedy. The real hanky panky is in how we're messed around, as only being afforded a few laughs. There are a couple of amusing moments, be thankful, you've got em'. One magic scene on a bus, plus another scene involving a tubby pilot belching repeatedly, before carking it, where the scene becomes really hairy, amongst the breathtaking altitude of the Grand Canyon. Basically, the story has Wilder, pestering this woman, he's fallen for, while both getting into the same cab. Shortly after, she's murdered, where just before he's given a package, many government people, authorities, are after, mostly of corrupt ilk, though not much is known about these shady, non smiling "don't mess with characters" that includes Richard Widmark. A woman he meets, real life wife, Radner, a musician as I recall, sides with him, to try and clear his innocence as Wilder's no one murder suspect for Quinlan's execution. Really, this movie takes itself way too seriously, and really amongst this seriousness, the story is very vague or tells us little about why Quinlan bought it,where more is known near the end. But the issue here, is it's lack of comedy. HP is a weak sappy comedy, why, because there's hardly any. Stir Crazy fans could really be let down, a big one here, in Poitier's second comedy.

gwnightscream Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan and Richard Widmark star in this 1982 comedy-thriller. Wilder (Stir Crazy) plays Michael Jordon, no not the basketball player, but a New York architect who gets caught up in a web of intrigue when he's mistaken for killing a woman, Janet Dunn (Quinlan). He meets female reporter, Kate Hellman (Radner) who helps him clear his name and he helps her in return by finding her brother's killers. Michael and Kate are chased by Janet's killer, Ransom (Widmark) and his men while they try to find the clues. I've always liked this film and think it's underrated. Gene and Gilda were great together and Richard was a good villain. I recommend this good comedy-thriller.

crystalart Every time I decide to watch this little gem, I'm reminded of how well it was made and how much I like it! Richard Widmark is one of my favorite actors, and he really adds a nice touch of malicious villainy as he pursues Wilder.I agree that the scene in the airplane is one of the funniest.This film could have been directed by Mel Brooks.I remember Gene Wilder from many other wonderful films: Young Frankenstein, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Silver Streak, The Adventure of Sherlock Holme's Smarter Brother, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, and Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask.It's very hard to find a copy of "Smarter Brother..." but it's well worth the search.You'll enjoy it very much. You've probably seen the others.

asanlui Don't know why so many other people gave the move such bad ratings.I think it was pretty good.Clever, mysterious, suspenseful, a dash of romance! Gene Wilder as "Michael Jordan" in 1982!!! That's just awesome right there! The scene in the bus when Gene & Kate do their "magic act"! And so many good quotes, like the helicopter scene when the pilot can't stop burping, then all of a sudden he has a stroke and 'Michael Jordan' goes, "I'm gonna die! yie-yee-aye-eeeee!!!" and Kate keeps on saying how the pilot's dead and Gene goes, "Nooo!!! Don't tell me that! He's not dead, he's not dead!!!" And the whole tape thing with binary numbers and the octal numbering system.Come on, even the hackers portrayed in movies these days don't have this kind of stuff in it.And not to mention all the cameos!! Shoot, I don't know the actors' names, but I know I've seen many of them in movies in the past decade! This movie has great stuff in it. Indeed.Definitely anyone who is a Gene Wilder fan.And directed by Sidney Portier of all people? Yowza!!!