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Summary: Gene Wilder at his very best!
Review: If you enjoy Gene Wilder in the Mel Brooks films, then this movie is right up your alley. It is truly one of the funniest ever made. The story involves two sets of twins - with one brother in each set switched at birth. One set is raised as aristocrats; the other as peasant revolutionaries. The time - 1779. (When you see the movie, you'll know how funny that line just was!) Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder are hilarious as the mismatched brothers, with the peasant-raised set rather normal if a bit cowardly, and the aristos just this side of psychotic. (Ok, maybe they are on the other side...). Throw in a misunderstood Louis XVI betrayed by everybody and his brother, a Marie Antoinette who could give Messalina a run for her money and, of course, the sinister minister, D'Escargot, and you have the most outrageously funny Gene Wilder movie ever.
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Summary: Very Funny
Review: It is hard to believe that in the space of 12 months these two guys made this very funny movie, the Producers, Kelly's Heros and MASH. Wilder and Sutherland were on a roll...
Rating:
Summary: "Later that evening...1789."
Review: Next to Woody Allen's "Love & Death", "Start The Revolution Without Me" is the biggest French Revolution 'laff riot' ever committed to celluoid. You'll laugh so hard that you'll spew your fois gras all over your waistcoat! Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland make an unbeatable comedy tag team (quartet?) as they play two sets of identical twins (one pair from a peasant family, the other aristocratic) accidently switched at birth. Much ornately costumed hilarity ensues. You can observe Gene Wilder developing his patented "slow boil" schtick (later perfected in "Young Frankenstein"). Great supporting performances, with the added treat of a hilariously droll Orson Welles as the narrator. Screening "Start the Revolution.." with "Love & Death" and Cheech & Chong's unofficial remake "The Corsican Brothers" would make for a memorable "theme night".
Rating:
Summary: "Later that evening...1789."
Review: Next to Woody Allen's "Love & Death", "Start The Revolution Without Me" is the biggest French Revolution 'laff riot' ever committed to celluoid. You'll laugh so hard that you'll spew your fois gras all over your waistcoat! Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland make an unbeatable comedy tag team (quartet?) as they play two sets of identical twins (one pair from a peasant family, the other aristocratic) accidently switched at birth. Much ornately costumed hilarity ensues. You can observe Gene Wilder developing his patented "slow boil" schtick (later perfected in "Young Frankenstein"). Great supporting performances, with the added treat of a hilariously droll Orson Welles as the narrator. Screening "Start the Revolution.." with "Love & Death" and Cheech & Chong's unofficial remake "The Corsican Brothers" would make for a memorable "theme night".
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Summary: History will never be the same!
Review: So you thought you knew everything there was to know about the French Revolution? Well, this film presents history the way it isn't taught in schools. This film is not for the faint of heart -- you are guaranteed to obtain multiple bruises from falling off your sofa numerous times! This is Gene Wilder at his best and Donald Sutherland as you've never seen him before! (And be assured that, due to the crazy narration, you will never forget the year the Revolution started!) The music is suberb and the scenery is magnificent. This film is for anyone who enjoys history from a decidedly different point of view. I'd call this a "Definitely Must See."
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Summary: Can I help it if I have this huge stride....look at it Man!
Review: This hilarious comedy takes the story of the Corsican Brothers and fractures it with two sets of mismatched twins, both played by Donald Sutherland and Gene Wilder, one set raised as the noble brothers, the other as peasants. Throw in the France of Louis XVI just before the revolution and you've got the setting for this totally screwball comedy. Bud Yorkin & Norman Lear (of All in the Family) directed and produced and added a cast of the best English comedians to their two stars, Sutherland & Wilder. This includes: Hugh Griffith as the befuddled King; Billie Whitelaw as a randy Marie Antoinette; Victor Spinetti as the reptilian Count Escargot; Jack MacGowran as the seedy Revolutionary amongst others. Oh, and Ewa Aulin (she played Candy) is delicious. When Gene Wilder goes nuts, no one can match him for hilarity. As the arrogant, pigheaded, lightning-tempered Corsican nobleman he is just simply wonderful. Sutherland's foppish brother is a perfect counterpoint. There is so much good stuff in this that one could go on at length (the Ball with everyone passing notes of intrigue and the King in his chicken costume is just one). Suffice it to say, they threw in the kitchensink with one-liners, references to Dumas and every kind of swashbuckler, non-sequiters, puns etc. A crazy madcap just-for-fun all-out comedy. One of the best ever made. A Classic. See it.
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Summary: soooooooooooo good
Review: this is the best movie i have ever seen. What else can i say? It's a clssic example of what good humor should be.
Rating:
Summary: soooooooooooo good
Review: this is the best movie i have ever seen. What else can i say? It's a clssic example of what good humor should be.
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Summary: Should be..." later that night 1789"
Review: Without a doubt one of the funnier movies ever made. A nobleman is on his way to Paris in the mid 1700 with his pregnant wife...she cant make it the city before the birth and has twin sons in an inn along side the road...in the next room is a peasant woman who also has twin sons at the same time. The doctor cant remember which twins go with which parent so he gives each parents one from each set...hence Gene Wilder and Donald Southerland grow up as twin brothers as peasants in Paris and as the infamous De CiCi brothers the "scrounge of Corsica".."thats scourge you ignorant peasant". The movie is a parade of hilarious scenes, mistaken identies and set ups..."I thought it was a coustume ball" as the French Revolution is told in that will have you never looking at history again... "I didnt know you wanted to do the monk and the choir boy, you told me you wanted to do the shepardess and the farmer, how many outfits do you think I can pack? Cant wait for it to be on DVD...I think the out takes from this would have to be a riot.
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Summary: Should be..." later that night 1789"
Review: Without a doubt one of the funnier movies ever made. A nobleman is on his way to Paris in the mid 1700 with his pregnant wife...she cant make it the city before the birth and has twin sons in an inn along side the road...in the next room is a peasant woman who also has twin sons at the same time. The doctor cant remember which twins go with which parent so he gives each parents one from each set...hence Gene Wilder and Donald Southerland grow up as twin brothers as peasants in Paris and as the infamous De CiCi brothers the "scrounge of Corsica".."thats scourge you ignorant peasant". The movie is a parade of hilarious scenes, mistaken identies and set ups..."I thought it was a coustume ball" as the French Revolution is told in that will have you never looking at history again... "I didnt know you wanted to do the monk and the choir boy, you told me you wanted to do the shepardess and the farmer, how many outfits do you think I can pack? Cant wait for it to be on DVD...I think the out takes from this would have to be a riot.
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