BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

studioAT Look at the pedigree behind this film. It's based on a play by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), it was written by Marc Lawrence (Music and Lyrics) and stars Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. It should have been a huge hit.In fact it's a lousy film. Thin characters doing clearly irrational things. Martin brings likability to every role he plays, but here he's floundering. Goldie Hawn acts as his straight man well, but she's underused.And then along comes John Cleese. Now, I don't find him that funny at the best of times, but when he's clearly playing another Basil Fawlty type role it's even worse.A poor film.

Python Hyena The Out-of-Towners (1999): Dir: Sam Weisman / Cast: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese, Mark McKinney, Oliver Hudson: Remake of the 1970 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis. It is about new territory and experiences starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn as a married couple. Martin is fired from his job but wishes not to alarm Hawn so he doesn't inform her that his travel to New York is for a job interview. They are bombarded with a series of incidences that mean little to the story. They lose their luggage, get mugged, get arrested, scale hotel walls, etc. Directed by Sam Weisman who previously made the dreadful George of the Jungle and this is not much of an improvement. Martin and Hawn shared great comedic chemistry in Housesitter but here their roles are props for bad writing. John Cleese appears as a snobbish desk clerk in what appears to be a tribute to his Fawlty Towers role. Nobody else can elevate this farce above the gutter area either. The original film regarded the reality of unfamiliarity to surroundings and culture. This remake merely takes gifted comedians and sends them through endless situations that we have seen countless times. What a waste of talent. For a superior vacation check out National Lampoon's Vacation and its worthwhile sequels. This is empty entertainment opting to replace any message with stupidity. Score: 3 / 10

The Grand Master The Out-of-Towners, which is a remake of the 1970 comedy, was a very irritating and frustratingly painful movie to watch. It was not the least bit funny and a lot of the humour was very stale.Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn had the potential to make this work, however the whole movie was just a disaster from start to finish. Not even John Cleese could redeem this movie. Normally slapstick comedy is meant to be funny however I found myself frustrated at how painful it was as well as being very unfunny. I felt like I was ripped off.It was no surprise that this was actually a critical and commercial failure upon its release in 1999. Nonetheless this is a very forgettable comedy that I will never watch again. It robbed me of 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back.1/10.

dartleyk but a truly moronic remake of a bright, acerbic, top jack lemmon film that actually had a plot and moved through it; this is steve martin after he stopped being funny anymore, walking through a series of stupid skits- a la wow, wouldn';t it be funny if the car they rent has a gps they can't understand and they drive through a fish market; hello? overall very slow, disjointed, bad one-off skits, and instead of being unlucky and chipping a tooth martin and goldie hawn are incredibly stupid; hard to imagine a bunch of Hollywood cokeheads sitting around thinking the rushes were funny, entertaining even; also missing the good origmal music, the period scenes of nyc that are fun to see decades later; remember snl- and the thing about martin looking funny and making odd expressions was that it was the kicker to really good line; take away that and the frill are stale and fall flat