Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

This is a well-made and comprehensive look at the cult classic Clue: The Movie (1985) which has been my favorite movie since I was a kid. And they talk about that, calling Clue a "babysitter movie" and how one actor showed it to his own kids on VHS, along with showcasing the younger adults who have elevated Clue from a box office bomb that generated a post-theater following to a real cult film.

It's a good doc but not great, probably because this documentary didn't get made until 2022 since several participants ranging from actors to producers have long since passed away. This production probably should have been made around 2005 and yet there's the longer view and additional information in retrospect that supports the main interviews.

Cool retrospective on a movie that's nearly 40 years old. I used to watch the movie on VHS a lot as a kid so this documentary has some cool info on this comedy gem (I'd taped it off the telly with Louis Malle's Crackers on the same 3 hour tape way back in the late eighties). Most of the cast and crew get to reminse and offer some geek trivia. I'll admit the movie is flawed from the fact that you can't guess the killer as there were 3 endings. But as a comedy it works. This documentary digs deep into the production and is a cool addition for fans of the movie. Definitely a passion project and that comes through in the feature. Lots of clips and cool film connections from the cast and crew. A nice companion to the movie.

The best part of the doc are the interviews from the cast. Unfortunately, they are surface level and way too few for the length of the film. So much time is spent on where we saw the actors before this, the score, the record labels that decades later decided to produce/distrubute the soundtrack, fan reinactments/thoughts, that we never get any detail about what filming was actually like, no behind the scenes footage or stories other than they all loved each other. Weirdly, when they mention that Lee Ving's voice was dubbed in the movie by an uncredited actor no one says why that was - little things like that which could have been more interesting were left out.

Overall too much emphasis on the peripheral and none on the filming of the movie. Of course many of the cast are no longer with us, but others apparently just didn't want to be involved. Overall it was a nice idea but pretty boring, unfortunately.

This was so lovingly made. Dives DEEP into every aspect of the film we all cherish so much. The physical media release also contains tons of extras. Very happy to have seen this. If you love the film - you must see it.

Great interviews included with every member of the cast still alive and archive videos from those who have passed on. Some great tidbits like Carrie Fischer originally cast as Miss Scarlett and Leslie was cast as Mrs. White.

Goes through how originally the film flopped but caught wind and is now a cult classic.

Fan documentaries are always a treat to me but this one is better than they average one you'll find on YouTube. Highly recommend.

Video is overly compressed, audio sounds like they used a $10 temu microphone, compressed the audio mix, then compressed the whole movie again so they could make it fit on a cheap thumb drive for distribution.

I mean pirated movies shot over someone's shoulder in a theater on a handheld VHS camcorder that you could buy on the street in any major city were more watchable than this. We bailed out after suffering through 10 minutes waiting for it to get better. We were hoping they were doing a schtick and it would jump to a nice smooth & crisp image with clear audio, but if they did that, it happened too late.