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Summary: If it has Michael Crawford in it, it is worth watching.
Review: I saw this on Broadway in the early sixties. It seemed funnier then. I guess you had to be there. Another Richard Lester bizarrity. I bought it because it has Michael Crawford in it. Anything with him is OK with me.
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Summary: Really funny, and really Roman
Review: Since the script is based on plays by Plautus, I show this movie to my Latin classes every year, and they love it!
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Summary: Funny and intresting
Review: I'm a Latin student in high school and we have watched this several times. Even though it doesn't use comedy like Monty Python movies or Mel Brook's films it still succeeds, and it doesn't need to be as funny as the other films because its a musical.
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Summary: bad but not completely devoid of interest
Review: This is okay if you're in the mood (drunk late at night) and don't know the real musical, especially Stephen Sondheim's brilliant song score, savaged here. The problem is director Richard Lester. Compare his "A Hard Day's Night" to his "Help!"--or anything else of his--and it is immediately obvious that "A Hard Day's Night" is a fluke. (George Martin recounts in "All You Need is Ears" how Lester harrassed him on the set of "A Hard Day's Night" so much that he refused to score "Help!". "Help!" suffers for his absence--George Martin won an academy award for "A Hard Day's Night".)(Speaking of music, I do recommend, for what it's worth, "Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz Rock Keyboardist" by Jeff Burns.)
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Summary: This movie is SO funny!
Review: This movie is the best! It's a shame nobody knows about it, so rent it! It's GREAT! :)
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Summary: Forget the critics and have a laugh!
Review: This movie is absolutely hysterical. The music is first-class and the laughs keep coming at every turn. This was a film that was done so the stars could have some fun and the audience would have some fun along with them. Zero Mostel is a riot in this movie and keeps you longing for more all the way to the end. Watch this one "just for the fun of it!"
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Summary: Even Better Than I Remembered It To Be
Review: Great fun musical comedy loosely based on T. Maccius Plautus' 2nd century B.C. comedy "Miles Gloriosus" ("Braggart Warrior").
The widescreen format lets you see pratfalls and edge-of-scene antics that are missing in the pan and scan version. Zero Mostel was a comic genius; it's a pity that he didn't leave us more movies to enjoy. Michael Hordern is superb as Senex, as are Jack Gilford and Phil Silvers as Hysterium and Lycus. When I was a child I didn't enjoy the musical numbers, I remember fast- forwarding through to get back to the comedy. I now appreciate the songs as well; they are genuinely funny and full of double-entendres that you have to hear repeatedly to fully enjoy. The entire movie, despite its classical setting, has a swinging-sixties feel that you'll have to watch a Rat Pack film to match. You almost expect Frank Sinatra to walk into a scene, singing a song in between drags on his cigarette.
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Summary: Something for everyone, a comedy tonight !!!
Review: If you want a VERY funny musical,then you half to
own this movie,it is SO funny,and I REALLY think
it's funny when Hero(michael crawford)fell off his
horse,ran after the fast going carage his girlfriend
was in,and then ran smack dab in to a barn,fell out of
the window,slipped into hay and then he grabed on to
the carage and then he kissed his girlfriend and it was
a very sweet kiss.So now all I can say is(after I just gave away
a hightlight part,sorry)just buy the movie.PLEASE!!!
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Summary: The Last Film Apperance Of The Great Buster Keaton
Review: I had a Buster Keaton marathon on TCM, and I taped four of his movies and a documentary. When I finished watching Buster's film SteamBoat Bill J.R, there was another film of his, what a treat to see Buster Keaton, who Played Errous(thats probley spelled wrong) the old man who was looking for his lost children. The film it self was pretty good. It had great music and a fantastic performance by Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Micheal Crawford. If your a Buster Keaton Fan, see this movie.
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Summary: Where they allowed to show this???
Review: This is one of the worst (perhaps the worst) musical films ever made. The songs are terrible and the attempted comedy is not funny. All that comedic talent--Mostel, Gilford, Silvers, Keaton--wasted! According to people who have seen both, the stage presentation was far better than this butchered film version. If you haven't seen it yet, you are in an advantageous position--don't waste your time or money on this bad, bad movie!
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