Where's Poppa?
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Movie Reviews of Where's Poppa?
Movie Review: How things change over the years
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first saw this movie many years ago, I thought it was the funniest movie I had ever seen. How one's perceptions change with age. Two friends and I were discussing the current trends in movies and I told them about Where's Poppa and how funny it was, so we decided to have dinner and a movie together. We are all over fifty and found the movie to be embarrassing and not funny at all. We could all empathize with the son who was stuck with an aging mother but could not condone his way of deealing with her.We found the scene where the cab driver passes the black woman to pick up the guy in the gorrilla suit to be blatantly racist and fortunately it would not be allowed today. The scenes between George Segal and Tricia Van Devere are inane. It was a waste of money.Movie Review: Where's Poppa
Summary: 3 Stars
If you like dark comedy and extreme satire, you will like this movie. If you like fast paced action movies, this is not the one for you. It moves painfully slow at times. I have been told by a reliable source that the book the movie is based upon is a great read.Movie Review: The Dog ate Mama
Summary: 1 Stars
Gordon Hocheiser (George Segal) lives with his aged, really age, mother (Ruth Gordon). Her senile antics are threatening to ruin his love life; so she must go, really go. His brother Sidney (Ron Leibman) thinks not. But what does his girl Louise (Trish Van Devere) think? And how will they resolve this situation?
This film is sort of a dark Walter Mitty. Only it is not executed quite as well. This is defiantly not Carl Reiner, (Writer for "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961 TV series.)
The skit is not well thought out. The dialog, if you can call it dialog, is stilted and disjointed. The film is not a dark comedy in the fact that it cannot think long enough to be dark. It relies solely upon potty words and potty humor. Not the British irreverently funny potty humor, but gross and snide.
I am not sure how they bribed George Segal and Ruth Gordon into this film. You can see they gave it their all. It could have been a good vehicle but it was too reinerised.
Zorro, the Gay Blade ~ Ron Leibman
Movie Review: Reiner's bomb
Summary: 1 Stars
This is supposed to be a black comedy. In fact, it is an ineptly directed, unfunny, obscene mess. It features filthy language, the required men's bathroom scene, rape, racism, hatred of America, and ridicule of the mentally ill. Attention all Altzheimer's patients, Reiner thinks you're hilarious.
Watch Harold and Maude or, even better, Little Murders if you want to see black comedy. This bomb is best forgotten. I'm not selling my DVD copy, I'm throwing it away.
Movie Review: Waste of time
Summary: 1 Stars
I had heard this was a cult favorite, so I gave it a go. Boy was I sorry. Carl Reiner is no director. This is amateur hour here. Ruth Gordon is OK in small doses, but you get far too much of her in this movie, and she is more obnoxious than usual. George Segal, who was a hot actor in the 1970s, gives the material his best shot, but his efforts aren't worth it, as this is just a great big waste of time. Do yourself a favor and skip this junk.