- April 2017
- It’s certainly one of the most situation of situation comedies but it’s a hilarious take on nature vs. nurture
- A very strong comedic cast led by Eddie Murphy and Aykroyd
- Great visual gags like the pictures of Regan and Nixon pictures next to the evil Ameche and Bellamy characters
- An even better visual set piece is the pictures of the club members in the giant senate-like hall where all the powers that be gather
- The casting of Bellamy and Ameche themselves are nods to fish out of water type screwball comedies. Bellamy’s is his girl friday and ameche’s is 1939’s midnight
- A pretty damning stab at social hypocrisy
- Brilliant Elmer Bernstein score
- The first hour of the film is wonderful and air-tight film comedy—the film lags in the second half a little
Nov 2018
- apparently my go-to film on an airplane
- love the stirring music score by Elmer Bernstein “the maestro”- his best stuff is the man with the golden arm, magnificent seven, true grit– but this got him a nom as well- excellent work- had a string of comedies- Meatballs, Airplane, Stripes
- juxtaposition in montage brotherly love opening- high or low society
- sneaky great Christmas film
- Denholm Elliott does a bit of Gielgud in Arthur here with the comedic butler
- I think Aykroyd wins the picture for me over Murphy- they’re both so great but his pronunciation is so great- “can’t do it, boo”
- the scene of the a capella by the guys at the club
- justifiably Jamie Lee Curtis will be remembered for Halloween but there’s a second act here with body karate on display in this, A Fish Called Wanda and True Lies
- Not in the top 20 of 1983 but in my archives
- Recommend
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