The Party
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Movie Reviews of The Party
Movie Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a classic. It is so utterly funny and well acted. It's about a well meaning yet hopeless fool who accidently gets onto a movie producers party guest invitation list. It follows the evening from the moment he enters the house to the next morning when everyone is leaving. You have to see this. Peter Sellers was such a funny actor and his timing is imaculate.
The most hilarious movie starring Peter Sellers is the Party. Film actor Hrundi V. Bakshi from India accidentally blows up the whole set in a movie (looks like they are filming "Gunga Din" almost) and is told he is "through" in Hollywood forever. Until he gets put accidentally on a dinner party list held by the movie's producer. The result is just as hilarious as the beginning of the movie; Hrundi can't help but screw everything up, spill something, tip something over, damage something or make some sort of funny social faux-pas at the dinner table.
Peter Sellers really outdid himself when he did The Party. It's sheer comic genius, not to be missed.
Movie Review: Cross-cultural Comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
At one level, this movie is about a South Asian actor with the hysterically funny misfortunes of Inspector Clouseau. Peter Sellers carries much of the film with his great comedic abilities (with some side-splitting help from the kitchen staff, the waiter, and a cowboy star named Wyoming Bill Kelso), but there's more to it than that.
Where Sellers plays Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films as a bumbling idiot, Sellers' character here (Hrundi Bakshi) is ultimately a very kind and remarkably sweet fellow who has stumbled into a party where he just doesn't fit in with the pompous Hollywood powerbrokers. He tries desperately to mix and mingle, but fails miserably for the most part. There's clumsiness (both physical and social) to be sure, but it's generally played as horribly bad luck mixed with naivite (rather than Clouseau's arrogant idiocy). That said, watching this party is a riot.
If you've ever lived abroad and struggled to "fit in" mingling at social events where you are the only foreigner (or simply hesitated to ask someone where their bathroom is), you might just see yourself in Peter Sellers' role.
Movie Review: best movie
Summary: 5 Stars
this is the best movie I've ever seen. It's not just a movie, it's a lifestyle.Movie Review: Painful....
Summary: 1 Stars
I cannot believe the positive reviews here. This is clearly going to be an extremely unpopular opinion here, but I thought this film dragged and dragged. But worse than its slowness, was the motivation for this film. I'm actually a fan of relatively low-brow/slapstick, and while there were a few inspired moments of physical comedy, I just could not get over the racism of this performance. I don't think it's being overly sensitive or politically correct to point this out. I really thought the laughs were at the expense of his 'accent' and a white actor in blackface. We don't laugh at minstrel shows, why would we find this funny?Movie Review: Absolutely Hilarious!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It is certainly not a clever movie, but more the kind of comedy you want to watch with a friend or two, and just laugh till you hurt. I could not believe how many scenes got belly laughs out of me. At the same time, the movie is touching because it has a real innocence underlying so MANY odd characters.