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God-AWFUL

posted 13 years ago by gbennett5
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I waited years to see this B-movie, as I'm a big fan of Main, but this
turkey was so bad I could barely finish it. This is the first time
Main could not save even the weakest of scripts and there wasn't a single
funny moment in this terrible piece smoldering doo. Ridiculous waste of
even 69 minutes. And now I read they wanted to make a SERIES out of this???
Wiser heads prevailed. "Ma and Pa Kettle" may not have been Preston
Sturges or Billy Wilder, but at least they were funny. This was not.

[–] lastmidnite2 13 years ago

Wow, different strokes I guess. I really enjoyed it, especially with that great supporting cast.

[–] billfitch7 9 years ago

A lot of very old movies are UN-FUNNY by my standards today, and this was no exception. The script was contrived and I assume the two leads were trying their best, but I can't help but agree with the smouldering doo comment. This showed up on TCM on 03 November 2014; I doubt if I will look at it again.
There's no spoiler here: and the butler didn't do it.
The possum up a gum tree? Me no get.

[–] davidwile 9 years ago

Hey folks,

I thought I saw most films of this era, but I did not remember this one. As much as I have enjoyed Whitmore over the years, his character in this film was just too irresponsible for me to tolerate, and I did not think there was any chance I would find any humor in the film. I bailed out after about ten minutes, and I simply do not care "who did it."

Best wishes,
Dave Wile

[–] jdstewart1 9 years ago

Watched it on TCM today. It's not a great movie but it was certainly worth an hour and a quarter.

The leads are great and the supporting cast seems to be one gorgeous blonde after another.

Fred Clarke cracks me up every time.

[–] nycruise-1 9 years ago

I saw it on TV DECADES ago.

I remember the opening theme song - and that's about it.

So funny to come here, read all the criticism and understand why I remember nothing else but the title song.

"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"