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Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

  • 1982
  • PG
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
2.5/10
1.1K
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Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, and Jerry Lewis in Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (1982)
Quirky ComedySatireSlapstickComedyFantasySci-Fi

Rich Caleb and Lu Swain give birth to alien twins Wilbur and Eliza, who are the smartest kids around when they put their heads together. Events threaten to keep the twins apart and a Chinese... Read allRich Caleb and Lu Swain give birth to alien twins Wilbur and Eliza, who are the smartest kids around when they put their heads together. Events threaten to keep the twins apart and a Chinese ambassador needs the twins' help.Rich Caleb and Lu Swain give birth to alien twins Wilbur and Eliza, who are the smartest kids around when they put their heads together. Events threaten to keep the twins apart and a Chinese ambassador needs the twins' help.

  • Director
    • Steven Paul
  • Writers
    • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    • Steven Paul
  • Stars
    • Jerry Lewis
    • Madeline Kahn
    • Marty Feldman
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    2.5/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Steven Paul
    • Writers
      • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
      • Steven Paul
    • Stars
      • Jerry Lewis
      • Madeline Kahn
      • Marty Feldman
    • 27User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis
    • Wilbur Swain…
    Madeline Kahn
    Madeline Kahn
    • Eliza Swain…
    Marty Feldman
    Marty Feldman
    • Sylvester
    John Abbott
    John Abbott
    • Dr. Frankenstein
    Jim Backus
    Jim Backus
    • President of the U.S.
    Samuel Fuller
    Samuel Fuller
    • Col. Sharp
    Merv Griffin
    Merv Griffin
    • Anchorman
    Pat Morita
    Pat Morita
    • Ah Fong - the Chinese Ambassador
    Virginia Graham
    Virginia Graham
    • Gossip Specialist
    Ben Frank
    Ben Frank
    • Quentin - the Handyman
    Cheire Harris
    • Maria - the Maid
    • (as Cherie Harris)
    Robert Hackman
    • Study Hall Supervisor
    Eugene Choy
    • Lum Fung
    Ken Johnson
    • Horace
    Peter Kwong
    Peter Kwong
    • Chinese Astronaut
    Richard Lee-Sung
    Richard Lee-Sung
    • Ambassador's Courier
    Steve Aaran
    • Cadet #1
    • (as Steve Aaron)
    Rebecca Edwards
    • Air Force One Lieutenant
    • (as Becca Edwards)
    • Director
      • Steven Paul
    • Writers
      • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
      • Steven Paul
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    User reviews27

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    1planktonrules

    This one sat on the shelf for two years....and I'm surprised it wasn't for forever!

    "Slapstick of Another Kind" is a surprise to watch. After all, I've never seen it included on a list of the worst movies ever made...but clearly it deserves to be there. Obviously SOMEONE thought the film was god-awful, as the studio shelved it for two years before ultimately releasing it! This is because this film is super- bizarre, totally unfunny and an awful chore to watch. Rarely have I ever seen anything THIS tedious and awful!! And, as far as entertainment goes, I think it's preferable to stare at vomit for 90 minutes than watch this movie.

    When the film begins, there is a really crappy outer space scene where disembodied beings talk about sending twins to the United States to help them out. Apparently, they sent two to China but with poor results. As for the Chinese, they are all just a few inches high and fly about in UFOs!

    When the children are born to their rich and sophisticated parents, they are hideous and the doctor (Frankenstein...ha, ha?!) advises the parents to abandon them to his care. And for 15 years, they are pretty much left on their own while the servants just party. During this time, on their own, they learn a billion and one things and are very bright--but they look and act really stupid much of the time. In fact, it's insultingly awful, as the film appears to make fun of the intellectually challenged.

    Later, the President of the United States arrives in Air Force One (powered by chicken crap) because the Chinese tell everyone the twins are 'America's greatest resource'...and things don't go very well during the visit. What happens next? Who cares....but see this film if you must!

    Not one bit of this film is the least bit funny or worthy of your attention. It's loud, boorish and annoying from start to finish. A god-awful mess of a film that NEVER should have been released and marks one of the lowest points in cinematic history. While almost no one has seen Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried" (as he refuses to allow it to be released because, presumably, it's THAT bad), it cannot be as awful as this film he and Madeline Kahn made- -presumably because someone was holding them captive or threatening to shoot their families.

    Air Force One, apparently, isn't the only thing running on chicken crap!
    ANVAAS

    Awful

    I had to see this movie because I had no choice. I was taking a trip in a bus and they put this movie on the bus's TV. I never get asleep on a bus specially when there's a movie playing but in this case I better tried to sleep because I couldn't stand watching this movie. The worst movie I've ever seen. I got headache and felt dizzy when it finished.
    1gfrancis0

    So bad it stays with you

    I stumbled on a mention of this movie after Jerry Lewis died. Based on a Vonnegut book, I expected something different and was not disappointed in that respect. It really impressed me as something that they just threw together in real time, just figuring out what to do next in between shooting scenes. I'm extremely surprised at caliber of some of the name involved in the project, Jerry Lewis (two roles!) and Orson Welles?!?! I give them some credit for trying to make a film out of the crazy book Slapstick, even though it is a colossal failure and only covers the beginning of the novel. A few scenes remind me of typical Tom Green comedy schtick, nothing but noise and mess, but just noise and mess doesn't make something funny, it's just infantile. I watched it yesterday and I think it is like trying to get the smell of burnt milk out of your nose, the ridiculously bad scenes just hang around in my memory. Someone would literally have to pay me $500 to watch this again, it is that painful.
    Michael_Elliott

    Great Cast Wasted in Awful Film

    Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)

    1/2 (out of 4)

    Jerry Lewis and Madeline Kahn play a married couple who give birth to a twin boy and girl (also played by Lewis and Kahn). Sadly for the parents, these two kids are really ugly, stupid and deformed. It turns out that an alien took control of the pregnancy to try and force these two kids to teach the world something because when the twins but their heads together they become super smart.

    Wow, what a complete and utter misfire this thing turned out to be. It's rather shocking to see how awful SLAPSTICK OF ANOTHER KIND is and it's even more shocking to see Lewis on The Tonight Show in 1984 trying to sell the movie. It's easy to see why they didn't spend too much time on that show discussing this movie because it's quite awful and even Lewis didn't do a very good job at selling it. The film was released in Europe two years before it's American debut but I doubt even this thing could fool fans over there.

    There are all sorts of problems with this movie including the fact that it just looks downright cheap and poorly produced. I really don't know what they were going for or what they were trying to do but the screenplay is just one giant mess. I mean, there are some below-the-belt jokes that I personally didn't find offensive but it's funny to think that anyone would have read them on the script and thought that they would have worked. What's even worse is the fact that I only laughed twice throughout the running time.

    How does a movie with Lewis, Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott, Samuel Fuller, Pat Morita and Merv Griffin go so terribly wrong? It certainly proves that no matter how great a cast you get if the screenplay is bad your movie is going to turn out the same way. Both Lewis and Kahn get an A for effort but there's just nothing here for their talents. Feldman is completely wasted in his role but I will say that Abbott gets a couple decent moments as Dr. Frankenstein as does Fuller as Colonel Sharp.

    SLAPSTICK OF ANOTHER KIND tries to mix comedy and sci-fi but it's really an awful picture from start to finish.
    1Robert_Wagner62

    2ND WORST MOVIE OF ALL-TIME (Next to Gigli)

    With huge talents such as Jerry Lewis & Madeline Kahn I thought this movie was going to be gas, sitting in my favorite chair ready to laugh...NEVER DID. Movie made me ill, The directors & producers of this film should be arrested for letting this "VOMIT" on the screen.

    The concept of having Jerry Lewis as a space alien could have been funny (See Visit to a Small Planet) which wasn't that funny either, but it wasn't crap like this. I've seen bad movies, like "Manos Hands of Fate", "Gigli", "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and many other terrible films, but with the exception of "Gigli", this is the worst movie I have ever seen, I truly had to take Maalox after this one. How in the Hell did they get The KING of Comedy, Jerry Lewis, and one of the funniest ladies to ever live Madeline Kahn to star in this bag of Dung?

    They must have owed favors to the producers or something, because this movie really bit the big one.

    Pardon My French, but It Sucked!

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    • Trivia
      The original 1982 cut of the movie featured a score by Michel Legrand. When the movie was re-edited and subsequently re-released in 1984, it was replaced with a more science-fiction-laced score by Morton Stevens (of Hawaii police d'état (1968) fame). A soundtrack LP was released containing on one side the score by Stevens and on the other side highlights of the score by Legrand.
    • Goofs
      The boom mic is visible in the scene where the staff at the mansion is attempting to cheer up Eliza after Wilbur is taken to military school (on full frame 1.33:1 prints; the prints cropped to 1.85.1 mask the boom out).
    • Quotes

      Ah Fong - the Chinese Ambassador: Up your a** with Mobil gas !

    • Alternate versions
      In the original 1982 cut of the film, Eliza sings a song called "Lonesome No More" (which is part of the title to the original novel "Slapstick") after the staff tries to cheer her up after Wilbur is taken to military school. Michel Legrand wrote the music, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. wrote the lyrics and Madeline Kahn sings the song in the character of Eliza. This clip also occurs before the flying saucer with the Japanese inside fly into the attic window where she is staying. In the 1984 US release, the song is still credited in the final credits, but has been edited out of the movie. The 2005 German DVD "Director's Cut" of the film also omits the song.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Jerry Lewis/Dabney Coleman (1984)
    • Soundtracks
      Puttin' Our Heads Together
      Music and Lyrics by Randy Bishop

      Performed by Randy Bishop and Bonnie Paul

      Produced by Spencer Proffer for Pasha

      Music Engineered by Duane Baron

      Coordinated by John Lombardo

      Published by The Grand Pasha Publisher and S. Paul Music Company

      Available on Pasha/CBS Records

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    • Release date
      • 1982 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Slapstick of Another Kind
    • Filming locations
      • The Rindge House - 2263 South Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA(House of the twins)
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      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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