NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

FlashCallahan In 1938 Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins from the cast of 'Wizard of Oz'. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion........So,e films can be very hard to find because the makers of the film had a little disagreement with the studio, so it can be very hard to get a proper release, so it just pops up on TV every now and again (think Michael Mann's The Keep).Others just remain hidden because they are so bad, that everybody involved wants to forget that it ever existed.And this has to be the prime example of such a film.What Chase and Fisher are doing in this film is anyone's guess, maybe the studio had something on them, photographic evidence of some sort of major crime, because they do nothing, absolutely nothing, to add a little depth to the proceedings.But then they must have seen the dailies and realised that whatever they would try, would not add any coherence to the film.Because the film is just an exercise in the offensive, being abhorrent to almost every single character on screen. So the last two acts consist of dog murders, vertically challenged people really showing themselves up, and the entire Asian cast getting murdered for some strange reason.But regarding the dwarf element of the chaos, surely they must have realised that they were having so many liberties taken from them, and their disability. Shouldn't have there have been a spokesperson or something to observe the atrocities that were being committed on screen.It's a woefully unfunny, offensive film, that should have never seen the light of day.Don't search for it, it's not available for a reason.

Robert A. Masciantonio I first saw this when I was about ten. Granted, I may not have matured much, but it's still just as funny. There is nothing socially redeeming or smart about the flick. I take that back... it does have some clever moments. Very tongue-in-cheek. They knew what kind of movie they were making at the time and, I think, hit the mark. Chevy Chase plays a pre-Fletch CIA guy whose job is protect a dopey ambassador and his wife while being chased by Nazis in the same hotel where the Munchkin cast of "The Wizard of Oz" are staying. Wow, that was a long sentence. Anyway, at the end of the day it's about drunken little people. That should be enough. Drunk. Little. People.

moonspinner55 A gloriously promising idea: 1930s movie-studio executives have a difficult time controlling all the "little people" they've hired to play Munchkins for the movie "The Wizard Of Oz". Director Steve Rash opens the film with the right amount of edgy whimsy and queasy sentimentality, hinting this may have been a twisted, funny fracas with a little bit of heart amongst its grosser gags. Unfortunately, the script seems half-completed, and stars Chevy Chase and Carrie Fisher (a likable screen-duo) are lost along the way. Scattered laughs cannot compensate for headache-inducing final third, with Adam Arkin screaming until he's hoarse. Even comedy legend Eve Arden fails to register, which is criminal. * from ****

Randy G. I recently left a message for MGM, regarding a release of "Under The Rainbow" on DVD, & sent them a link to the IMDb comments about this movie.If you would like your comments heard, please visit the following MGM web page, http://www.mgm.com/help.do, and instantly let your request be known.With any luck, our comments will be forwarded to the appropriate department, & they will finally get the ball rolling on a DVD release of this cult classic.Thanks! ...Randy G. :)