Movie Reviews for The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective

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Movie Reviews of The Cheap Detective

Movie Review: Bogart Satire Misses the Mark
Summary: 2 Stars

Writer Neil Simon, actor Peter Falk and director Robert Moore reunite for this disappointing follow-up to "Murder by Death" (1976). The laughs are rather scant in Simon's lackluster satire of Humphrey Bogart classics (primarily "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca"). Falk's Bogart parody is less successful this time around, with the all-star supporting cast mostly wasted. Robert Luthardt's stylish production design remains among the few virtues. A weak effort, "The Cheap Detective" pales next to Steve Martin's "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" (1982) yet surpasses George Segal's disastrous spoof "The Black Bird" (1975).

Movie Review: Sporadically Funny Spoof
Summary: 2 Stars

Writer Neil Simon employs the same approach to humor here that he did in "Murder by Death" by peppering the film with non-stop jokes. The problem is that there are more duds per legitimate laughs here in this send-up of Bogart films. Peter Falk's prescence here redeems the proceedings;he'd be funny reading the phone book. That said, with the material he's given here he may as well have been. Many character actors appear here and are virtually wasted. You could whittle this film down to a fifteen minute sketch for, say, the old "Carol Burnett Show" and you may have a passable enterprise.

Movie Review: An awful fillm!
Summary: 1 Stars

Without a doubt one of Peter Falk's worst films compounded by Falk's pitiful Humphrey Bogart lisping accent. Nothing redeems this tragedy. Even Dom DeLuise's role isn't worth reviewing. Buy if it you must - but I told you so!