Haunted Honeymoon
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Movie Reviews of Haunted Honeymoon
Movie Review: A Decent comedy/horror of the 80s
Summary: 3 Stars
Again, another film that has play many of time during the young years of HBO. Most of you that grew up during the 80s will remember this film. Now, we hardly see it get played. If you happen to like the comedy of Wilder, Radner and DeLuise, and are big fans of theirs, then you will truly like the film. Recommended to fans of Radner, Wilder, and DeLuise only!Movie Review: sometimes its good to just be silly....
Summary: 3 Stars
Haunted Honeymoon is a silly movie. If you like silly movies, its great! Wilder is silly, Radner's role is charming (=understated) and silly, and Dom Deluise steals the show in drag playing a huge eccentric old lady! What a scream! The plot is simple, the gags are predictable and it's all just silly. It's a fun movie.Movie Review: Gene Wilder and Gilda Honeymoon in Boris Karloff's home
Summary: 3 Stars
The plot was not bad but the dialog could have used a lot more work. It had potential as a really funny movie. You have the actors, the script, the set and lots of spooky films to make parodies of.Movie Review: Kid stuff?
Summary: 3 Stars
I remember watching this movie when I was very little (I am 21 now) and I think I remember it being funny. But maybe that was because I was a kid and I haven't seen it since then.Movie Review: M A K E S....A ....M A S T E R P I E C E ....O U T....O F......' P L A N....9....F R O M ...O U T E R ...S P A C E '
Summary: 1 Stars
"HAUNTED HONEYMOON" never takes itself seriously. It is a farce, (and a badly-written farce at that), masquerading as a comedy. The dialogue is hackneyed, and the actors don't even try to make it even more than it is. It's great to see Gene Wilder, (and Gilda Radner, sigh!), in anything of course -- but here, the plot goes "plotZ", (falls on its
face), and goes nowhere. Talent is wasted here. The unnecesary sight gags are disruptive, and add to the unreality of this
horrible mess of a movie.
I could say this movie is "hairy", (and this admittedly terrible joke-of mine is, I hazard to say, on a par with most of the awful jokes in this movie), but I won't. This movie isn't hairy -- it's just s-t-u-p-i-d!
The only good things about this movie are the atmospheric music, and the optional subtitles, which can help one, however briefly, to review one's French. The subtitles are nice and large, but go by too fast. One thing that REALLY had me howling, (with laughter), was seeing the scene, toward the beginning, where GENE WILDER, though trying to hide it, stutters on words beginning with the letter "W" -- which proves he is a werewolf. Only -- the subtitles say he will stutter on words beginning with the letter "L" (!) I re-wound the CD at this point, to make SURE I had seen the subtitle correctly. I had! French and English are, truly, two very different languages -- but the distinction between "L" and "W" are quite clear, in both languages. (Unless....maybe it's because "W" begins the word "wolf" in English, but "L" begins the word "la loup", (wolf), in French? Maybe that's it. Yet, the script does not say WHY Mr. Wilder's character will stutter on words beginning with "W". No explanation was given -- and this being so, he COULD have stuttered on words beginning with "C", or "D", or any other letter of the alphabet, and it would have made no difference. So, the French subtitles should have used the letter "W", as well. It looks very strange, for Mr. Wilder's character to indeed be stuttering on words beginning with the letter "W" -- (again, no reason given), whilst the French subtitles clearly state that he SHOUD be stuttering on words beginning with the letter "L". ('Sesame Street', anyone?)
One of the most important things in any fantasy/horror/sci-fi movie or book, is to make the audience suspend disbelief in the odd goings on in the story. (This is what makes the wonderful sci-fi movie, 'Galaxy Quest', and the long-running horror/fantasy TV show, 'Dark Shadows', so great!) But, in 'Haunted Honeymoon', characters do TRULY weird things,
(such as, for no apparent reason, Gilda Radner's character, (Vicki Pearl), and John Candy's character, (AUNT Kate), suddenly bursting forth into a song and dance of "Ballin' the Jack"!) Unlikely dialogue and stupid retorts, (done only for 'laugh' value), add to one's disbelief in what is happening onscreen. Disbelief, in this movie, is NOT "supsended". It is quite definitely "EXtended"!
Dom de Louise, however, is as good as anyone can be, in his role as the (female) Aunt Kate. Like the other characters, he is made to deliver totally inane dialogue -- but his utter belief in his character's femininity makes us believe the character he plays IS female, as well.
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" is generally regarded as THE worst science-fiction/fantasy film ever made. Truly, it is NOT a good movie. But at least it takes itself seriously. One WANTS to believe the absurd plot and bad acting in 'Plan 9', because the acting is in earnest. Here, in "Haunted Honeymoon", the acting and dialogue are played for laughs -- and not very funny laughs, at that. It is NOT played out in earnest. Absurdity after absurdity follows on the screen, whilst the story goes absolutely nowhere.
I doubt that I have ever been SO disappointed in ANY movie I have ever seen. I mean, I LIKE stories of the supernatural, (well-done stories of the supernatural, that is), and I also like comedies, (funn"Haunted Honeymoon" IS an intriguing title, but it takes this title and makes a mockery of it -- much as Ludwig II of Barvaria made a mockery out of the title of "King".
This movie has, as one of its tags here on Amazon, the word "mystery". I agree that "mystery" should be one of the tags -- but not because of anything in the story of this movie. No. The REAL 'mystery' here is how any studio, (especially mighty MGM!) ever allowed this movie to be produced at all. Watching it, made me remember a review for another film, (the title of which, mercifully, I forget), about which the newspaper, NEW YORK NEWSDAY, gave the following succinct, (and highly accurate!) review: "It wasn't released. It escaped!" (And THIS joke is funnier than all the jokes in 'Haunted Honeymoon' -- put together!)
Science fiction, horror and fantasy are supposed to appeal, especially, to the most intellectually gifted amongst us. One begins to wonder if such ridiculous movies as "Haunted Honeymoon" have been foisted upon the public with the precise aim of dumbing down these intellectually gifted people. And all the rest of us as well!