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This. Was. Absolutely. Delightful.
Tim Curry proves to be one of the most entertaining actors to ever grace the screen.
The movie whizzes by in no time, and had me consistently smiling and laughing.
I'm a huge murder mystery fan, and this film has one of my favorite twist ending(s) ever.
And it ends with just about the best final line ever in a movie.
But Murder by Death is still better.
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Not quite as funny as I remember, but still funnier than anything else I've seen this year. Honestly, I still kind of prefer Murder By Death (which also stars Eileen Brennan).
BUT!!! The gag where Martin Mull shoddily pours everyone whiskey made me laugh until I cried today. I rewound that shit and kept laughing.
AND!!! The line "I'm going home to sleep with my wife" is one of the greatest final lines in the history of film.
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A great piece of shotgun humor that's a touch more highbrow than Airplane! Clue misses a lot, especially with the physical comedy and some of the running gags, but more than makes up for it with the performances and subtle character arcs (Professor Plum hitting on and getting rejected by all of the women, in descending order of hotness; Mrs. Peacock's continuing mental breakdown). And everything out of Tim Curry's mouth is quotable.
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18/100
Tim Curry is funny. Madeline Kahn is funny. Michael McKean is funny. Christopher Lloyd is funny. And yet not. one. laugh, save for Kahn's desperately improvised "flames at my face" bit (seen by only 1/3 of the original audience). It's actually an enormous relief when purely theoretical humor emerges in the home stretch, even if Curry running frantically about like the world's first recapper only serves as a grim reminder of how deadly the first 75 minutes were at…
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We've been attacking movies based on board games recently, but it was done over 25 years ago, and for my money, it was done rather well.
The movie started with a very strong cast, all of whom acquit themselves admirably. It then incorporated elements of the board game in believable and clever ways. This was helped along by a script that, while perhaps not the best script, gave its actors enough to work with to make the funny happen.
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