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Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

John Brooks Steve Martin, believe it or not, was at one point a philosophy major. He seems like such a down-to-earth comedian that fact only comes as a surprise, and yet, he does have that certain casualness and lightness about him, like someone who knows but just doesn't care anymore. This film was co-written by Steve Martin, and it feels very Steve Martin. It's silly at levels you may've never experienced in cinema, to the point you may downright feel like turning it off after watching the first few scenes. But wait for it. It comes. The point when you feel like you want more of it, it's so random and bananas and totally, totally silly, and because it's so coherent with itself, you'll find yourself completely into it. This isn't plain stupid - it's going somewhere, and is a very well built comedy. It's just its comedic content is so completely unique you'll need a time of acclimatization before you really grasp at what level the film's humor is performing. Excellent comedy with meaning (somehow) - completely reckless, remote, and such a refreshing and contagious sense of humor.

Gideon24 Steve Martin became an official movie star via a 1979 comedy that became an instant classic called The Jerk, a comedy that is silly, improbable, and constantly strains the boundaries of logic and continuity, but provides consistent laughs anyway.Martin plays Navin Johnson, the adopted son of a family of black sharecroppers, who had no idea that he was adopted ("You mean I'm gonna stay this color?"), who finally leaves the comfort of the Missouri farm where he was raised to find his "special purpose". We watch as Navin inexplicably becomes the sex slave of a circus performer named Patty (Caitlin Adams), who has him convinced that this is his special purpose. When he does escape Patty's iron grip, he does find happiness with a cosmotologist named Marie (Bernadette Peters), while at the same time, inventing a special kind of eyeglasses that make him a billionaire and turns him into a bum almost as quickly, which is where Navin is when we meet him at the beginning of the film, which is actually told in flashback.Carl Reiner's energetic direction and a hysterical screenplay by Martin, Carl Gottleib, and Michael Elias work in sync beautifully to bring us a rolling-on-the-floor-funny story that despite the absolute ridiculous and stupid things that happen to Navin, we find ourselves buying it and being behind the character. We laugh when Navin finally realizes that he's not black and we laugh when a psycho played by M. Emmett Walsh picks Navin's name out of a phone book and decides to murder him and we laugh when for his first date with Marie, Navin orders dinner from Pizza in a Cup. We even laugh when Navin hits it big and has his dream house built and offers us a description of the various rooms.Martin is wonderful in the title role and always keeps Navin likable and he has a very nice on screen chemistry with Bernadette Peters, which actually led to a brief real life romance and an on screen reunion 2 years later in Pennies from Heaven, I also loved Richard Ward and Mabel King as Navin's adopted parents and Bill Macy as the guy who partners Navin in his eyeglass invention, which comes to be known as "Opti-Grab."Nothing deep here, just one laugh after another right up to the slightly contrived ending, which I can forgive because the journey to that point had me on the floor.

FilmBuff1994 The Jerk is a fantastic movie with a very well written storyline and a brilliant comedic cast.This movie is the beginning of Steve Martins career,it was his first big comedy film,and despite the several great projects he has done since then,this is still his finest role,his character is extremely stupid yet lovable and this journey we go on with him is ridiculous in a very good way.The film is consistently funny from start to finish,there honestly isn't one scene where I didn't laugh at least twice and every time I watch this the same jokes get me every time as well as parts that I couldn't remember.Hilarious and very clever,I would definitely recommend the Jerk to anyone looking for a good comedy. After finding out he is adopted,a man with little intelligence struggles to start a new life on his own. Best Perfornance: Steve Martin

LeonLouisRicci Sweet Comedy from Carl Reiner and Steve Martin that is Not Flawless, but Darn Near. Like Most Comedies Not Every Joke Works, but Darn Near. Happily Absent are Relentless Vulgarities that Infiltrate Comedies Nowadays.The Stream of One-Liners and Sight Gags ("We built a bigger house.") that are Sharp and Senseless Make this One of the Most Enjoyable Movies in the Genre and it Holds Up Quite Well Decades After its Release.When Two Great Artists Team Up like Martin and Reiner and Deliver Such a Delightful Humorfest it Renews the Faith in What Movie Comedies Can Deliver at Their Best. What Makes this Work so Well is the Combination of Cutting Edge Satire with Lovable Characters. It is Special and Not that Common with Comedies.While Steve Martin's Career Choices are a Very Mixed Bag (Martin has said that only one third of His sixty odd Films makes Him proud), this is the One of That Launched His Checkered Filmography and is Routinely Considered a Great Debut and has been Rated One of the Most Popular Comedies of All Time.Not Perfect, but Darn Near with Many Quotable Lines and a Joy to Behold. Ironically, Steve Martin and Carl Reiner are Both Underrated but the Best of Both Need to be Rediscovered and Re Evaluated for a Fresh Perspective and a New Respect, Especially Considering what has Passed for Success in the Genre and Made Zillionaires of Mediocre Talents in Recent Years. Adam Sandler are Your Ears Burning?