Help! My Gumshoe's an Idiot!

Cerebral humor, spot-on acting! Biff Basham and some of the others could use some additional character development, but I suppose mystery is part of the story line...

Gumshoe! might not be in the class of the great spoof movies of the past like "Naked Gun" or "Airplane", but it is still very funny. Great sight gags and lots of daft dialogue! Arnie Pantoja (who I had never heard of before) really gives his all as the private eye out of his depth. I'll give it 7.5/10 and round it up to 8 on account of him.

This is a gag and groan-filled comedy similar in style to the Naked Gun movies. One-liners, sight gags, and rapid-fire humour make me miss movies like these; like Jane Austen's Mafia!, Baseketball, Airplane!, and even the first Scary Movie (not the sequels to Scary Movie, which are all horrible). Some of the gags don't quite work however, and you have to be in the right kind of mood, obviously (don't ask your girlfriend to watch this with you) but the movie is charming nonetheless. I wish there were more movies like this!

The lame sight gags and one liners were so dull I doubt that Mystery Science Theater 3000 could jazz them up. I'm sorry, this movie was dreadful. Don't waste your time.