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Movie Reviews of Houseguest
Movie Review: Best Movie Ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sinbad gives a performance for the ages! I cannot think of a movie in history that rivals this one and it is widely unknown! Everyone should be required to see this. I have seen it over 100 times and it just gets better and better.Movie Review: Houseguest
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be the funiest movie that Sinbad has made to date. His partnership with the late Phil Hartman creates the ultimate comical expierience and a must see.Movie Review: Great movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't seen this in years but it still brings a lot of laughs. One of Sinbad's and Phil Hartman's best performances ever.Movie Review: Silly but Fun
Summary: 4 Stars
This film has nothing to recommend it except that it is fun. It's not even great comedy, its just fun.
Sinbad plays an inner city character who is always striking out on his get rich quick schemes. Now, a mob boss is out to get him and he is on the run. In desperation at an airport, he assumes the identity of a man for whom a car is waiting at the airport. (Think in terms of the drivers at big airports holding up signs for the people they are supposed to pick up.)
It turns out that he has assumed the identity of a man visiting a friend from college(Phil Hartman). They have not seen each other for many, many years so he is not recognized. Hartman has always talked about this friend and what a great guy he is but his family has never seen him Now they do meet him and put him up as a houseguest. It is only with much difficulty that Sinbad learns that he is supposed to be a famous dentist.
He thinks quickly on his feet and even manages to pull of a complex dental procedure by accident. While he is saving himself, he manages to save the marriage of his "friend" , the love life of their daughter, the sports life of the son and set the "friend" up for a new career.
It is implausible at each step but Sinbad and Hartman work well together and they have fun. As a result, the audience does as well.
Be sure to keep the show running through the credits. The duet sung by Hartman and Sinbad in praise of junk food truly warms the heart...and clogs the arteries.
Movie Review: Houseguest
Summary: 4 Stars
Sinbad and the late Phil Hartman team up for this comedy about mistaken identity. I like the theme of mistaken identity, because it almost always leads to something funny and can be stretched through the entire length of a book or a movie.The acting was pretty good. There are several scenes in the movie in which Hartman's character is having a row with his wife--and that I could not watch without a heightened sense of realism and an almost grotesque and somewhat sickening dark feeling, in light of what would happen to Phil Hartman in real life not long after the movie was released.
Anyway, Sinbad and Hartman made the movie fun. And I certainly enjoyed the fast pace. The Italian gangsters the movie portrays may appear flat, stereotypical, and silly, but that's not necessarily a bad thing in the context of the whole movie. The gangsters are a prop, a background, they were not meant to be these grand characters. They are simply there so that Sinbad could run away from were he was and end up in Hartman's family. It is a comedy, after all, and it calls for comical characters, not grand characters; for exaggeration and misunderstanding, not for hard core realism and clarity.
I definitely recommend Houseguest.