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Summary: Classic Comedy
Review: "What's Up Doc" is pure comedic genius that combines slapstick comedy with smart,witty dialogue. The casting is inspired with flawless deliveries. Few comedies stand the test of time and are truly transgenerational. "What's Up Doc" is a cure for what ails you.
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Summary: AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs - No. 61
Review: What's Up Doc has all the elements of a great comedy and a great classic. The plot is fun, the comedy witty, the mystery suspenseful, and the cast superb...no wonder it made AFI's 100 laughs list.
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Summary: It's 40-carats, that's What's Up, Doc!
Review: Screwball comedy is a genre that always conjures up images of classic films like "His Girl Friday", "My Man Godfrey", and "The Awful Truth". Often overlooked is "What's Up, Doc", perhaps because anything made in the 1970's may seem too late born to qualify as a true screwball classic. But qualify it does.
Peter Bogdanovich took a break from the heavier themes that were popular at the time, throwing open the windows for some fresh air: a true madcap romp, served up with zest and abandon by a talented cast, most of whom seem to be having a wonderful time, completely in tune with the mood of the picture.
The more elite among Barbra Streisand fans may tend to look down on this lighthearted performance, preferring the artistry of her musical and dramatic skills. To those, may we say: Aw, lighten up! She's darn funny as Judy Maxwell. Carole Lombard herself, who epitomized the Screwball Comedienne,couldn't have done better in the role. A priceless cast includes Madeline Kahn and Kenneth Mars, and if prizes were ever given for Performances That Should Have Been Nominated For An Award, surely one would have gone to Liam Dunn as the haggard Judge Maxwell ("You made me smash my LifeSavers!")
A fast-moving and clever comedy, with a plethora of funny lines to requote with your friends at parties (even my kids toss them around), this is worth checking out if you have somehow missed it. I predict you'll end up adding it to your library.
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Summary: My All-Time Favorite Move... A MUST!
Review: All you really need to know is three words: "Introducing Madeline Kahn." "What's Up, Doc?" is simply one the best film comedies of all-time. The car-bicycle-chinese dragon chase through the streets of San Francisco will never be equalled. Buck Henry's one-liners come fast-and-furious as delivered by a young Streisand at her peak, and Ryan O'Neal serves as the perfect straight man to her manic charms. He even lampoons his own melodramatic stint from "Love Story" near the end of the film. For fun, see if you can count the references to the Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn classic "Bringing up Baby," which serves as Bogdanavich's main inspiration for the plot. I saw this movie for the first time when I was 9, and it's been my favorite movie ever since. Irresistible from start to finish!
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Review: this movie's so great it reminds me of the first time all mmmm ssss mmmm ssss. This movies get's crazy like prozac, hypin' up to have a party and nerly has a heart atack! The chase scene in the end makes me wanna jump jump. learn it live it
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Saw What's Up Doc in it's theatrical release when I was a little kid and I was so wowed by all the wild, crazy and oh so funny slapstick that had me laughing and giggling and just having a good time! A few years ago it was on one of those cable movie channels and I taped it watched it again a few times and just loved it, Unfortunately I no longer have this on video because it got taped over but this is a movie I will gladly buy for my video collection, that's how funny and wonderful it is but I would definitely prefer it on DVD!
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Summary: My Favorite Movie Ever!
Review: This is definitely my favorite movie! I have seen it so many times that I have almost all of it memorized! It is so hilariously funny! "The other one who isn't my wife, the one who is my fiance, she doesn't call me Steve, she calls me Howard"
This quote basically sums up the movie in that it is crazy and confusing (at least the first few dozen times).
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Summary: The best of classic screwball comedies
Review: A great mad cap comedy with a great cast of characters. It's hilarous, witty and creative, and does it without being profane, vulgar or insulting. One of my favorites . . .
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Summary: Whats up Doc
Review: Once upon a time there was a plaid overnight bag. . . or could there be, four? The first one, owned by Judy Maxwell (an outrageous chick played by Barbara Streisand), contains nothing more than her clothes and who wants those? The second bag, is owned by Howard Bannister (an uptight musicologist, played by Ryan O'Neal), and contains igneous rocks. . . need I say more? The last two each hold some costly items that are being desperately pursued. And so the story begins, in the Bristol Hotel, where Howard and his obnoxious fiancé, Eunice, are attending a party for the Congress of American Musicologists. Per orders from Eunice, Howard is sent to the drugstore to purchase some aspirin for his headache but returns with an even larger headache. Judy Maxwell has something about her annoyingly intriguing that Howard can't quite get a grip on. She seems to do nothing but cause havoc wherever she goes and at the same time seems to make things better. Put Judy's mishaps together with the mix-ups of the plaid overnight bag and you got one cool flick. Although the fashions in this one aren't all that hip, considering the year the movie was made, you do get a glimpse inside one smashing space-age flat owned by the eccentric Mr. Lareby. The finale shows some great scenery from San Francisco, the perfect city to film such a delightful movie.
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Summary: HILARIOUS SCREWBALL COMEDY
Review: Set in San Francisco where an absent minded, young musicologist is plagued with the attentions of a dizzy, scatter brained girl, who gets him involved with crooks and leads him to a series of accidents unwittingly.Lots of fun car chases and slapstick nonsense with an impressive, fast, furious and very witty dialogue and likeable performances from its two leading stars, Barbara Streisand and Ryan' O Neal. Good, clean old fashioned screwball comedy which is delightful from beginning to end. A classic and highly recommended.
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