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The Wrong Guy

The Wrong Guy

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This movie is definitely in my top five funny movies of all time. If you appreciate the humour of Dave Foley, this movie can't possibly miss your taste. It's very Foley and very funny. It also includes cameos from my favourite Canadians, the Barenaked Ladies, who enter the plot as singing cops.

The movie centres around a man who thinks he is being chased by the cops for a crime he did not commit. In actuality, the cops already know who did it, and Dave's character is left running through the country, on the lamb for no reason.

It's clever, it's witty, and it's funny as all get out. Totally recommended for a good time.

On a related note, Easy Mac tastes good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Comedy genius
Review: This movie is excellent. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting something different than the predictable hollywood sludge being produced these days. It's well written, acted and produced. So simple, yet so hilariously genius!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: But this
Review: This movie is one of the funniest movie I've seen in the last 10 years. I can't believe it has been burried for so long? The movie has a stupid plot and very little emotional content but it's hysterical. Dave Foley is brilliant as he underplays his part as a total goof who is on the lamb for no reason. Jennifer Tilly is better than I've ever seen her as the woman who falls for Foley's fugitive. It's well shot and the music is great because like all great comedies they take it seriously. Buy this movie! I guarentee you'll love it. The fact that I co-wrote, produced and acted in it has no influence in my review.

And while you are at it, go buy the first few seasons of "The Simpsons."

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wrong Guy but The Right Girl
Review: This movie is pretty mediocre with a generous peppering of moderately funny scenes. It'll never be a cult classic or anything. But there's one reason to own this movie: Jennifer Tilly in a sheer nightgown. Yowza. It's in a dark room, but that doesn't matter. The movie gets 3 stars, but she adds the two extra.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Right Guy!
Review: This movie was hilarious!! It was kind of slow in the beginning but once Detective Arlen showed up (David Higgins, "Ellen", "The Army Show", and "Malcolm in the Middle") it takes off. I suggest buying mutiple copies of this film for all your friends and family! I can't believe that those pinheads at Disney sat on it for so long. They could at least put it on cable. This movie is a hidden classic. Be cool, be in the know, buy it now!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: One of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Review: This movie was one of the slowest and worse movies I have ever seen. I enjoy Dave Foley in Newsradio and Kids in the Hall, but his movie was not funny at all and was very slow. My advice is don't waste 90 minutes of your life on this terrible movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Original!
Review: We've all seen plenty of films with the innocent hero on the run from the law. Well this is a film about a complete idiot who's on the run--even though the law ISN'T after him. Sound bizarre?

Dave Foley plays an executive who is passed over for a promotion. In a hilarious scene, he threatens the CEO (who is also his future father-in-law). So when the CEO is murdered, Foley imagines that he is the prime suspect, and he goes on the run.

In a bizzare chain of events, the real killer keeps bumping into Foley. Meanwhile the police driven to the chase with an impressive expense account, scour every expensive French restaurant in the area, question strippers, and attend musicals in New York.

I loved this film--it was light, funny, and original. If you like off-beat humour, you should be entertained.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious Movie...A Bizarro Fugitive!
Review: What I love about the "Wrong Guy" is its twisted sense of humor--which you expect from Dave Foley who was in Kids in the Hall. It is also written by David Higgins (from the ELLEN show and Higgins Boys & Gruber) and Jay Kogen (who wrote a lot of the best Simpsons episodes from the early seasons). The premise is essentially "What if you thought you were wanted for murder but nobody was chasing you?" What starts as a broad farce evolves into a clever satire of The Fugitive movie and TV series. There is one hilarious joke that creeps up on you when Foley finds himself caught in a classic feud between a farmer and the local bank while hiding out in a small town. Buy it now and laugh.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Actually enjoyable
Review: When I sit through first 10 minutes, I rolled my eyes. All that affected screaming and "funny" faces the main character was making that were like bad parody of a french comedies from 70ties. Then I thought that maybe it is a low budget independednt film. In any case the movie got rolling after like 20 minutes and I laughed quite a lot. Yes the jokes are all predictable and cheasy, you wish the main character acts better, but all together it quite works. The movie doesn't try to be too serious about itself which is a bonus, but I think the main drawback is a dynamics. Sometimes the jokes play too long. It is like the main character needes to look surprised for 10 seconds while you need to have like 1 sec to get the joke. Otherwise I think it is a fresh commedy removed from the hollywood stereotype.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Actually enjoyable
Review: When I sit through first 10 minutes, I rolled my eyes. All that affected screaming and "funny" faces the main character was making that were like bad parody of a french comedies from 70ties. Then I thought that maybe it is a low budget independednt film. In any case the movie got rolling after like 20 minutes and I laughed quite a lot. Yes the jokes are all predictable and cheasy, you wish the main character acts better, but all together it quite works. The movie doesn't try to be too serious about itself which is a bonus, but I think the main drawback is a dynamics. Sometimes the jokes play too long. It is like the main character needes to look surprised for 10 seconds while you need to have like 1 sec to get the joke. Otherwise I think it is a fresh commedy removed from the hollywood stereotype.


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