VividSimon Simply Perfect

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

SnoopyStyle Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) is the oddball sidekick to domineering comedian Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson) in a long running two-men play. His landlady Carmen is a sex maniac. He has a bout of hay fever and falls for nurse Kate (Emma Thompson).Jeff Goldblum is very broad in this shy awkward oddball character. It doesn't really work. I don't buy him and he's not necessarily funny. It's super quirky but it's also head-scratching. The flashbacks are hit and miss. Goldblum has a slightly off sense of humor. It doesn't really work here. Emma Thompson is lovely as usual. This is a quirky movie that isn't that funny.

morphricky I suppose this movie was supposed to be funny, but most of the jokes just comes off as awkward and ridiculous. The story felt very bland and boring, so did the characters. Rowan Atkinson is a fantastic actor, yet you barely get to see him in this movie. The other actors were good as well, but there just wasn't anything interesting about their characters.And what was the big point of this movie? Dexter and the nurse getting together? Being successful in his career? Rowan Atkinson's character ending up unhappy? Judging by the sappy music in the end, I suppose it was all of them.Even though I am hugely interested in the story about the Elephant man, not even that part was interesting enough to ever want me to watch this movie again.

neil_t-1 There's a scene in this film which perfectly mirrors people's reaction to this movie. When Goldblum's Girlfriend and Landlady share a box to watch the first night of his starring role as the Elephant man their disparate reactions to the show echo the disparate reviews that appear here.As with most comedy, you have to be somewhat in the right frame of mind to enjoy it... and the sneering classes aren't ever going to be in the right frame of mind.British comedy has a tendency to be either gentle and thoughtful and unafraid to mix real drama and sadness in with the humour (As Time Goes By, Last of the Summer Wine, 4 Weddings and a Funeral) or traditional farce (Monty Python, keeping up Appearances, Fawlty Towers).Americans seem to "get" the latter more easily and this is one very much of the "gentle, thoughtful" ones. If your reaction to the death in "4 Weddings" was "why did they put that in there? It's not funny" don't see this film. But if your reaction was discover that the sadness highlighted the joy of the remainder and brought it into focus then you'll "get" this film and enjoy it.Jeff Goldblum and Rowen Atkinson fans beware! Both are playing very much against type and in Atkinson's case that is a deliberate self parody and part of the joke. He is funny by being as unfunny as it's possible to be.So what about the film, specifically? The story is a fairly simple one except with some clever role reversals on sexual stereotypes. Shy boy, worldly wise girl, evil boss, hard times survived, good times lead to temptation and betrayal and, finally, a denouement which echoes back to the role reversed attitudes that cemented the relationship in the first place.The show is funny and well, though not perfectly, paced. The straight and personable acting enhances the comedy as do the moments of real drama. There are zingers throughout the show, not all of which are verbal.Everyone takes away a different "perfect moment" from the film and for me it was the exchange between Goldblum and the policewoman... "I'm sorry, I know I was speeding but I have to get to the hospital right away", "Oh yes, of course... You poor man".If you want to know WHY that's so funny you can probably work it out from all that's been said or you'll just have to see it to find out.

mjw2305 Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) is an actor, who plays straight man to Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson) and is desperate to do something more with his life. With an Allergy to most things, he goes for his jabs at the hospital and finds the women of his dreams, Kate Lemmon (Emma Thompson) and there begins his quest for the girl. The adventure has many funny moments and lots of memorable scenes, as dexter loses his job, gets the girl, gets a new job, loses the girl, gets the girl, etc.Surprisingly the humour mostly revolves around Jeff Goldblum and not Rowan Atkinson, who is basically an egotistical Ar*ehole who is there for us to hate, and although not the Rowan Atkinson we all know, he is still amusing. Emma Thompson shows us her talent for comedy also, and the results are pretty good.Worth a Laugh 7/10