Baby Jane?

I am not sure what the other two reviewers were talking about when they said this was a good movie. It is not! It started out fun but then turned into some kind of "lets do it straight now" mess that was no longer funny and was down right bad! If they had done a true spoof it would have been great but one cannot do a spoof if they think they are acting in a real movie drama. The actor (I use that term loosely here) who plays Baby Jane seemed to think this was a true movie and not a spoof that was made for fun. The rest of the actors "got it" and were good if not great, but the actor playing Jane really ended any chance of this becoming the camp-fest fun movie it could have been. One bad apple (actor) can spoil the whole thing. To bad considering how hard the others in this movie tried to make something for the fans of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane would have loved to see and laugh with.

I saw this film last night at the Community Arts Cinema in Huntington, NY. As it starts, you almost feel like you are watching the original film, "Whatever Happened to Betty Jane". However, you soon realize that this version is a brilliant satire of the original, with the starring roles portrayed by two highly gifted female impersonators. Bette Davis' mannerisms and inflection are perfectly captured and the spoof pokes fun at the original with just the right touches of over-the-top humor. It's filmed in glorious black & white with sets that seem so close to the originals that they almost feel like the actors were superimposed into the original film. Much attention is paid to details in sets, costumes, photography, and script lines. I need to get a copy of this for my home collection as it's one of the funniest films I've seen in quite a while. Loved it!

I'm not a big fan of movie parodies. Very few of them are funny and consequently fail to hold my interest. However, Billy Clift's 'Baby Jane?' is an exception. Clift and his team have successfully put together an uproarious take off of the 1962 Davis-Crawford epic, 'What Ever Happened To Baby Jane'. Much of the success of this film is the wonderful cast of characters who have been assembled to hysterically portray many of the original characters. Matthew Martin does an exceptional job as Jane, batting her long eye lashes and being the dominant sister of the beleaguered Blanche, played very well by J Conrad Frank. Heklina as the nosy neighbor, Mrs Bates is spot on as he embellishes her original character. Mike Finn as Edwin and Alotta Boutee as Elvira add to this excellent parody. There are some jokes that are derived from the original, as well as other Crawford and Davis pictures. I laughed throughout much of this picture and highly recommend it. Good job Billy!

This is a bit of A curio. The directing is good,the acting excellent,the feel tense BUT the parody element falls flat. The jokes are obvious and not funny. The humor broad. With a better script this could be a classic. I've given it Ten simply because the rest of it is so damn good!

Take this parody for what it is... Entertaining and laugh out loud moments. Great care and imagination takes center stage. I'm a fan of all the various movies weaved throughout. Great job girls. Bravo.