Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

WisdomSeed I found this DVD for $4.99 at K-Mart, so I took a chance with it. I began to watch it and lost interest, and so for about four weeks in a row, I would put the movie on and start doing something else and not really watch it. Once time I caught the credits rolling and I new then I had to see how they came to this conclusion. The first time I sat down and actually paid attention to it, it was hard to watch, until they got on the ship, then I was in love with this movie. Since then I have gained a great amount of appreciation for he beginning of the movie as well. I have always loved the farces of the 30s and early 40s and this movie a big fat wet kiss to those movies and the fun they looked like they had making them (the actors looked like they had a ball making this movie). I love this movie now, I look forward to seeing it and have to deprive myself of it at times. I love this movie because it is a very well crafted tribute to movies I have loved since I was a child. Laurel and Hardy, Astaire and Rogers, and a bunch of artists who love the art. This is a wonderful movie. There are times I wish I could tell Stanley Tucci just how much joy I get from this silly little movie and to thank him for making it.

moonspinner55 Stanley Tucci wrote, co-produced, directed and stars in this happy, but only moderately successful comedy about two out-of-work actors--so unemployed they are reduced to staging wild scenes in restaurants just for the food--who get on the wrong side of a drunken stage-star and end up as stowaways on a cruise ship. Very broad, occasionally funny, but the humor and the R-rated language don't really match up with the 1940s scenario (the vulgarity feels forced and heavy-handed). Tucci is a wonderful ham actor, and he's well-matched with Oliver Platt, but his direction is shaky and some of his jokes are mean-spirited. For those who stick with it, the finale is admittedly terrific. ** from ****

roxy10_girl I thought that the movie was fantastic . It had a kinky sense of humor not adored by all , but i found it rather enjoyable.The Characters all have unique personalities that are very lovable.The plot is one that takes a great turn and keeps you wondering what on earth could possibly happen next.The little captions between scenes keep it cute , and the plot will have you glued to the screen, one moment of the story that is missed can leave you a bit confused for the rest of the movie. I saw this movie on the WB17 movie lineup and was surprised that such a great movie was on daytime T.V.Its one of those movies that is great throughout the entire movie , it keeps you laughing till the ending scene (even the credits are great!)

Pepper Anne The Impostors was great, though probably not side-splittingly funny if your not willing to lose yourself in the simple comedic antics that occur throughout the film. Two actors, Aurthur (Stanley Tucci) and his tall, chubby companion Maurice (Oliver Platt), are hard up for work, but they always seem to have an opportunity to use their acting talents, even if not working onstage. During a plan to weasle some food from an unsuspecting baker, the actors outwit themselves, fumbling their plan. Instead of the starving pair getting free food, they get tickets to a Shakespeare show. After watching the dreadful Bernardo (William Hill) butcher 'Hamlet', they insult the actor and get into a scuffle, forcing Maurice and Aurthur to hideout. Consequently, their choice of hiding places was not great, since they become stowaways on a ship. The same ship that the trashtalking-Bernado was travelling on. Things become a mess as Maurice and Aurthur scurry around the ship, pretending to be everything from bellhops to a British gentleman and his lady, in an effort to avoid Bernardo and several other extremely weirdo passengers, including Happy Franks (Steve Buscemi) as the horribly depressed singer who fumbles every suicide attempt; a couple disguised as French tourists (Alison Janney and Richard Jenkins); a furiously gay Scotsman (Billy Connoly); a Russian Communist disguised as an easy-going shipmate (Tony Shaloub); an annoyingly hypocritical German (Campbell Scott); and many others to make it a furiously hilarious odd assortment of characters. These secondary characters are really the ones who make the film so funny whereas Aurthur and Maurice are more like mild mannered guys who just found themselves in a bad situation, but seem to take it rather well. And again, as the introduction indicates, styled along the lines of silent-film comedy, that is the kind of comedy this film goes for--the slapstick/misconception comedy of Vaudville, matched with overdramatic movements and chases and whatnot of early silent film comedies and dramas. It is not blatant stupid-comedy Carl Reiner films (such as the Cheap Detective), because it doesn't drive the whole movie (there is more attention paid to the story), nor is it overdone. Best of all, the humor is delivered at great moments. For example, the Captain, looking for his long lost lover, seeks out a woman at the bar who veils her face as much as she can from him. He seems to anxious to know if this is the same woman he has searched for for so many years. He approaches her, "Are you you?" It certainly isn't the kind of thing you expect a guy to ask if he think he's just found the woman he's been searching for that long. It's really good stuff if this is the kind of comedy you enjoy.