Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThree manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich wid... Tout lireThree manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow.Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Lisa Le Baron
- (as Juli Donald)
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I saw this movie first in the theater, I went with a friend and at most there were a dozen other people there. Like many users, I laughed 'til I cried, and I am one loud obnoxious freak, wired on juvenile remarks, it must have been a spectacle. At least when I left the theater this became an issue, as my friend, who was mostly silent during the screening, said he didn't think it was that funny. I said the other people there were laughing, and he replied, "They weren't laughing at the movie you freak, that were laughing at you." I'll believe otherwise.
If you just want something funny, silly and fast, you gotta give "Brain Donors" a shot. The jokes overlap and are delivered so straight that it does require repeat viewing to catch the wonderful sight gags that are easily lost to laughing at the dialog so hard you cant see the screen.
Pat Proft, a writer who is certainly hit or miss, is really at the top of his game here, closer to "Bachelor Party" and "Hot Shots" than "Police Academy". And everyone has already cited Turturro, whose movements (chasing ambulances, sitting in chairs) are as classic as his delivery.
So watch it, and Paramount, release it, I'm ready to buy (again).
This movie contains about 20 good laughs per minute and a finale that rivals "A Night at the Opera" in hilarity. Anyone that doesn't hurt from laughing at the end of this film is either cold-hearted or clinically brain dead.
Whether you find it funny at all will depend on one thing, do you think that a Marx Brothers style movie could be made now? If you don't think so or hate the Marxes then don't bother seeing it, you'll be wasting your time. However, if you like comedy that's both clever and stupid in the classic Marx sort of way, see this film.
The plot has Groucho, er...John Turturro playing a shyster lawyer who is trying to bilk a rich widow of her money by fronting for a ballet. Add to the madness Mel Smith in the Chico role and the incredibly under rated Bob Nelson in a role Harpo would have played if he talked. Its all madness, mis-representation and misdirection that ends up on stage in a ballet only an insane person could have come up with (its at this point breathing becomes optional).
See this movie.
Its simply one of the greatest screen comedies, even though almost no one has seen it.
10 out of 10.
So many great moments and lines it's hard to pick a favorite scene or dialogue. I think that my favorite part of the movie if forced to choose would have to be one of the last scenes, when they are at the ballet and the two guys come out on stage and start hunting swans and ducks with rifles and blood hounds! Every time I see that I think I'm going to faint I'm laughing so hard! One of the best all time movies ever made, and should have one an Academy Award for best comedy of it's time. A classic that will most assuredly go down in history!
I give this movie a 10 out of 10.
End of review.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesAlthough unmentioned in the official description of the movie, the screenplay and characters are based on the classic comedy masterpiece by The Marx Brothers - Une nuit à l'opéra (1935).
- GaffesAt the first party, Jacques is seen juggling scarves and is suddenly behind Flakfizer and then back juggling again.
- Citations
Flakfizer: Lillian, I could make love to you right here.
Lillian Oglethorpe: Roland, let's keep this professional.
Flakfizer: Fine. I'll charge you fifty bucks a pop.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Animation Lookback: The Best of Stop Motion - Will Vinton (2014)
- Bandes originalesTHEME FROM 'NEW YORK, NEW YORK'
by John Kander & Fred Ebb
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Détails
Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 918 239 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 504 057 $US
- 19 avr. 1992
- Montant brut mondial
- 918 239 $US
- Durée
- 1h 20min(80 min)
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1