• A spectacular vehicle for Bill Murray’s talent—a total showcase. Sketch after sketch of his trademark mania before his Wes Anderson/Jarmusch/Sofia Coppola deadpan era.
  • For director Frank Oz it’s another success and good pairing with 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – both are dueling comedies (Richard Dreyfuss is excellent here as well as the incredibly pompous Dr. Leo Marvin), shot by (who knew) Michael Ballhaus with catchy playful scores by Miles Goodman
  • Splendid comic writing like “There are two types of people in the world, people who like Neil Diamond and people who don’t— my wife loves him” and “a lot of people freeze on TV, Dad”— “thank you”
  • Sketches include the Tourette syndrome scenes,  Murray just getting blown over by dust in the NYC streets with his OCD
  • I’ve seen the film a dozen times so it’s interesting now to watch it Murray’s character actually, therapeutically, gets better throughout the film discarding his tissues
  • I believe there’s a nice split diopter shot late as we look at Murray bunking up with young Siggy (Charlie Korsmo child actor)
  • Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1991