The Out-Of-Towners
by Sam Weisman
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Actor: Goldie Hawn, John Cleese, Mark McKinney, Oliver Hudson, Steve MartinDirector: Sam Weisman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-21
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Out-Of-Towners
Movie Review: Much better than Housesitter!
Summary: 4 Stars
It sounds like most people who complain about this are either hardcore fans of the original or they prefer another brand of comedy altogether. Well I haven't seen the original, and I generally do not like most Hollywood comedies myself whether it be sex-related humor, teen-oriented, romantic-based or something starring one male Hollywood heavyweight that leans more toward the physical and over the top. But I thought this was great fun and totally watchable! I've enjoyed Goldie in other comedies like Death Becomes Her and The First Wives Club and Steve Martin was great in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and they are both in top form here too. I did not care for the other Martin/Hawn film Housesitter and think that this was a much better fit for the two. It's an entertaining flick about all the things that can go wrong when a middle-aged Ohio couple venture to New York after the kids are grown-up and moved out. It's definitely not as bad as others have made it out to be. While I don't classify it as one of my favorite comedies like Clue, National Lampoon's Vacation or Adventures in Babysitting, it is still worth having in my collection for a lazy Saturday afternoon of simple enjoyment.
Summary of The Out-Of-Towners
This remake of Neil Simon's 1970 comedy finds Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin as Ohio yokels cast adrift in Rudy Giuliani's sanitized New York City. With their son recently departed for Britain, the empty-nesters travel to the Big Apple for a job interview and are beset with all kinds of bad luck, starting with their flight being rerouted to Boston. Things only go downhill from there, of course, as they're mugged by an Andrew Lloyd Webber imposter, the high-tech multilingual navigation system on their rented Cadillac goes haywire, and their hotel reservations fall through. Though this movie is marred by some out-of-place slapstick and mawkish romance scenes, it's not without its funny moments. The couple stumbles into a sexual-addiction encounter group and has to try to back out gracefully (not succeeding very well, of course). John Cleese is howlingly funny as he reprises his Fawlty Towers role of a cross-dressing hotelier, and Martin has a great drug-delirium scene, in which he's slipped a hit of LSD in jail (thinking it's aspirin). Just try not to think in terms of comparisons to Neil Simon's original and this remake works fairly well. --Jerry RenshawComedy DVD Video
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