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09-28-99, 11:43 AM
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Don't know what possesed me to rent this movie, maybe I had high hopes with a movie that had BOTH Steve Martin and John Cleese in it.
Put simply this movie is absolutely horrible, If you don't already hate Goldie Hawn, listening to her scream and wine for a hour and a half in this movie will leave you wishing she'd quit acting and stop yelling.
Steve Martin often fantastic in films is mighty mediocre in a roll he has no spark for.
The story is even worse than the preformances, and at the end of the DVD I woundered why I haddn't just stopped it mid way... It's that bad.
Geoff
Put simply this movie is absolutely horrible, If you don't already hate Goldie Hawn, listening to her scream and wine for a hour and a half in this movie will leave you wishing she'd quit acting and stop yelling.
Steve Martin often fantastic in films is mighty mediocre in a roll he has no spark for.
The story is even worse than the preformances, and at the end of the DVD I woundered why I haddn't just stopped it mid way... It's that bad.
Geoff
09-28-99, 03:22 PM
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Geoff,
Unfortunately I've got to agree with you on this one. I had (moderately) high hopes for this one given Steve Martin's track record and the successful pairing of Hawn and Martin in Housesitter (due mostly to Martin). This movie, though, ranks as the worst one I've seen in 1999. Cleese was somewhat amusing, but Hawn gave the most grating performance I think I have ever seen. I kept on praying that she'd be run over by a cab or Martin would snap and dismember her, but no such luck. This movie is the best anti-marriage propaganda I've seen since the Lorena Bobbit incident. I was watching this on a plane and actually began to pray for engine trouble so they would shut it off.
This stinker was so bad that I'm thinking about having a third arm sown on my body so I can give this movie three thumbs down.
[This message has been edited by ROKH (edited 09-28-1999).]
Unfortunately I've got to agree with you on this one. I had (moderately) high hopes for this one given Steve Martin's track record and the successful pairing of Hawn and Martin in Housesitter (due mostly to Martin). This movie, though, ranks as the worst one I've seen in 1999. Cleese was somewhat amusing, but Hawn gave the most grating performance I think I have ever seen. I kept on praying that she'd be run over by a cab or Martin would snap and dismember her, but no such luck. This movie is the best anti-marriage propaganda I've seen since the Lorena Bobbit incident. I was watching this on a plane and actually began to pray for engine trouble so they would shut it off.
This stinker was so bad that I'm thinking about having a third arm sown on my body so I can give this movie three thumbs down.
[This message has been edited by ROKH (edited 09-28-1999).]
09-29-99, 06:49 PM
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My friend mentioned this to me and I have to agree - It seems as though Steve Martin's best films are those he writes (Roxanne, L.A. Story, Bowfinger, etc.) That's not to say those are his only good films, but they are more reliably good. I like Hawn, Martin, and Cleese, and I'd like to think that this was just a project gone bad, rather than a sign of their respective talents.
