ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Dewhistle I saw this movie on TV when I was a child. That was my parents' mistake. I found Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory disturbing as a child, so deciding I wanted to see Rhinoceros because Gene Wilder was in it was plain wrong.The whole thing seemed like a horror movie to me at the time. Having found it confusing to fit in with other people, maybe the movie spoke most directly to me. I have had a horror most of my life of blind conformity. Nevertheless, it was the stuff of nightmares at the time. My clearest memories of it are of Zero Mostel's transformation (the horror of finding one of the last hold-outs was lost) and seeing Gene Wilder huddling against a building out on a ledge high above a writhing mass of rhinos... I confess, I don't know whether that was really in it, just that if there were so few actual rhinos seen in it, as other reviewers suggested, my childish imagination must have filled them in. I would call that effective film-making... giving the mind what it needed to perceive the vision.From the sound of things, this is a movie I should see as an adult to see whether it tends more to be horrifying or funny. Not much of a review, I admit.

brantford52 I loved this film. I was trying to find it to buy it, just for the scene between Wilder and Mostel, priceless. I laughed so hard mostly because of how brilliant Mostel was at portraying his transformation. I told my children about this film and they wanted to see it. I recall reading once that Wilder himself, didn't like the film but I don't have his perspective. The tension between Mostel and Wilder in that particular transformation scene is palpable, Wilder's reactions, Mostel's intensity, I laugh at just recalling this scene. I don't recall much else about the film except this particular scene. I highly recommend this film to all Wilder and Mostel fans.

data87 this is one of the all-time magnificent plays, illuminating ww2 france as it enthusiastically embraced antisemetic nazi ideals. sartre wrote that france could have been germany, and ionesco brought that home with rhinoceros.one could argue that the work applies today as the bush regime asserts its anti-evil doctrine, and so many buy into it without levels of proof demanded in a courtroom, seemingly willingly! it took years for europe to undo analogous nazi assertions (albeit hitler was infinitely worse to jews than bush is to muslims, the propaganda is scary in its similarity), and perhaps the united states is in for the same.regardless of one's political inclination, the movie is amazing. the trio of mostel - wilder - black is magical. a movie that stimulates the mind.

John Warner OK, this is one weird film that I caught very late one night, I only decided to see it because it had Gene Wilder in it, who is one of the funniest men in history. I was totally surprised by how bizarre it was. The plot is about Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder talking and all these people turn into (unseen) rhinoceros'. Later on the story goes from zany comedy to mild horror as our 'heroes' try to stop themselves from turning into rhinoceros'...If you're in a good mood you could find some enjoyment out of this, but if you like your films straightforward then avoid this like the plague.