The In-Laws

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Summary: Serpentine Shelly, serpentine!
Review: If you can watch a movie 40 times and still laugh at it, it must be a classic. That is "The In-Laws" for me. I've seen it so many time that I know almost the entire script by heart, and it still cracks me up everytime I see. The cast is just perfect- especially the two leads and Richard Libertini. The script really develops the relationship between the characters tremendously. And Vince's lines(Sometimes I'm so smart I scare myself) are just priceless.

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Summary: a screwball comedy ---with two guys!This
Review: This film features the inspired pairing of the long-suffering and deadpan Alan Arkin with a wonderfully zany Peter Falk...the script is a treasure trove of throw-away lines (listen for Falk's character to proudly claim credit for the Bay of Pigs fiasco)... ever-accelerating comedic action...the ending is clever and completely satisfying...

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Summary: Couldn't stop laughing
Review: I watched this movie a few years ago with a 13-year-old boy and a 65-year-old man--and neither could stop laughing. Neither could I. So you can see it appeals to all ages. The chemistry between Falk and Arkin is something that doesn't happen much in movies. Arkin's expressions are priceless. You can tell what he is thinking: is Falk crazy, or is it just an act? Arkin crawling around on his knees, begging not to be killed because he's only slept with three women...a straight-face Falk telling stories about giant bugs carrying little brown children off into the sunset...this is one hilarious film.

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Summary: One of my top 5 comedies
Review: Falk and Arkin are a great team in this sleeper. With the lack of quality comedies coming out of Hollywood these days, this becomes a "must have".

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Summary: Hilarious fun!
Review: This is a hilarious funny movie. I had seen it many years ago when it first was released. I recently watched again and it was even funnier this time! I love it when Vince runs "serpentine" to the car at the airport. That part is hilarious! This is a must see!

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Summary: Loved this very funny movie
Review: This is a very funny movie have seen it several times , still cracks me up!

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Summary: Not "great", but VERY funny
Review: This is a little-known, but hilarious comedy. Sheldon Cornpett (Arkin) is taken on a terrifying, exciting, and fun ride by his future in-law Vince Ricardo (Falk). You don't know until the end whether Vince really is with the CIA or whether he is a total loon.

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Summary: Part of the reason I married my husband....
Review: On our first date, my husband and I discovered that we both thought this was a hysterical movie. On our second date, we rented and watched it. One of my all-time favorite movies - I laugh every time I watch it, even though I can recite most of the dialogue! Arkin & Falk are both superb in the roles they play - I can't imagine anyone else in them, and agree with another reviewer that you shouldn't even bother with the remake - it absolutely does not do justice to the original!

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Summary: Perhaps the best comedy ever
Review: There are only a handful of truly great comedies and the original In-Laws (Falk/Arkin) is certainly among them, if not topping the list.

Skip the remake... it's simply awful; insulting to the original.

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Summary: Can I Really Be the Only One?
Review: I tried to watch this PG rated movie dubbed a movie I could watch with my children and grandchildren, however, not even twenty minutes into the film I had heard more G**D*** and J****C****, B******,Holy S*** than was necessary. No, none of those profanity adds anything to the movie at all, not for me anyway. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are gift actors but I lost respect for them in how they portray both the Jewish and Catholic faiths with a total and reckless disregard for the name of God. It is one of the commandments so it must be important that we don't profane the name of the Lord. Heck, I have not been in church in close to two years and I couldn't take it and I turned off the movie and came upstairs. I was sitting next to someone who goes to church every single Sunday and he not only did not have a problem with the blaspheme but told me he did not even notice it. On the other side of me was someone else who doesn't even believe in God and belittles my beliefs and
what offends me as he disregard for my beliefs. This happens to be very hurtful. Therefore I could not enjoy what could have been a good movie underneath all the unncessary blaspheme. I cannot believe I am the only one that is bothered by movies being ruined by a disregard for the name of God. Further, I could not watch this movie with my children. I was highly embarrassed at the uses of the Lord's name that one could hear throughout the house from the surround sound stereo.