Bill Murray Film Fest
Movie #1 Please click the links to read my reviews of: Kingpin, Scrooged, Where the Buffalo Roam, Ghostbusters II, and my favourites, Ghostbusters, Ed Wood, Rushmore, Lost in Translation and Groundhog Day.
Synopsis: Bill Murray Mr.-Magoo's his way through charming-but-highly-implausible spy
spoof.
Blurb From the VHS
Jacket: “The international intelligence community is about to get a lot
less intelligent.”
What Did I Learn?:
Not that many women appreciate being introduced to friends as “the Defence
Minister’s call girl.”
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Movie If: You'll watch anything that involves a Bill Murray dance number.
Really?: 1) So,
the cops are impressed by a radio communicator in a gold cigarette case? That
might have been believable in the 1960s, but these days most people carry
cellphones. 2) Funny how that entire sub-plot: i.e the police raid on James’
London townhouse, and the cops thinking Wallace (Murray) killed the actor,
never gets developed, and is dropped by the end. 3) Speaking of the end, I had
a little trouble believing Wallace would read a newspaper account of the
incident in London and still not put two and two together.
Rating: The Man Who Knew Too Little is one of
Bill Murray’s better films. The plot is extremely contrived, and built upon a
lot of coincidences and perfect timing, but in this case, none of that matters –
it’s an absurdist farce that made me laugh out loud several times. Murray
himself is a hoot as the completely oblivious Wallace, Alfred Molina is great
as a grumpy KGB assassin, and I’m chuckling over the bomb-tossing finale. Highly
recommended. 9/10 stars.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120483/?ref_=nv_sr_2
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