BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

lasttimeisaw Colin Higgins' San Francisco-based genre-busting comedy-thriller starts with the murder of an archbishop (Roche), then jumps to a chucklesome brush between our protagonists Gloria Mundi (Hawn), a recently-divorced bimbo librarian and a smart-looking but clumsy lieutenant Tony Carlson (Chase in his debut leading role), next, backing with Barry Manilow's Oscar-nominated theme song READY TO TAKE A CHANCE AGAIN (by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel) and sunlit bird's-eye view shots, Gloria decides to take the chance to embrace new adventures and picks up a random hitchhiker Scott (Solomon) and suggests they should have a movie date, unbeknown to her, Scott puts a small film inside his cigarette box and leave it to Gloria because someone is on his tail, before being dispatched in the cinema, he utters a foreboding warning to her "beware of the dwarf!".Once the MacGuffin is set, this Hitchcock parody goes heedlessly into the alley of a succession of cat-and-mouse chases and break-in attacks, with intermittent comic fodder involving a lecherous conductor Stanley Tibbet (Dudley Moore's American celluloid debut), who objectifies Gloria as a target for sex, Moore steals the limelight with his bravura of sexual perversity, straddling between farce and vulgarity. But the film goes downward from there, the story dully takes a familiar course of action with broad comedy sketches, romantic rendezvous and run-of-the-mill action pieces, a guilty-pleasure highlight involves a close-combat between the septuagenarian Meredith (as Gloria's karate-showboating landlord) and the villainess Rachel Roberts, simply because it is so off-centre. The final deciding event is set during the opera THE MIKADO, but until this point, our investment in the characters has already run its course, after a cringe-worthy kissing scene in front of all the dumb spectators (including a horrendous Pope Pius XIII), it is high time to bring down the curtain on this insipid crowd-pleaser.In any case, the film was a box-office hit in 1978, revives Hawn's career and establishes her oft- stereotyped screen persona as a simple-minded blonde with her innocuous bulging eyes, which certainly hampers her career longevity. Chevy Chase, barely appears in the first half of the film as a leading man, starts to integrate his deadpan drollness with a heart-throb front, which would subsequently lend him fame in his later works, notably in the National Lampoon and the Fletch movies. But as for the film, regrettably to say, it can barely leave any fresh impressions by today's new audience where the same tropes have been exploited by a surplus of emulators, time changes, that's why there is always a thrust for studios to remake old movies, maybe they can give this one a green light, at the least, the laughter-cum-scare blending has long exited the mainstream filmmaking in America.

WalterSoprano Man there's so many things to like in this movie. The absurd story, Dudley Moore as the real life quagmire, and much more. I watched this movie on DVD as a random pick and I wasn't disappointed. In my book it's yet another comedy classic from Chevy Chase. Strange enough out of this weird movie my favorite scene would have to be the scene where Dudley Moore is first introduced and brings Goldie Hawn to his apartment and it is then revealed that he is practically the real life Quagmire. I swear the characters are so similar that it seems as if family guys famous character was influenced by Dudley Moore's.Anyways back to the main part, the film for a comedy has a really original plot and it works well with this film. It isn't a must see but it's funny and I enjoyed it. To each his own I guess. That's all I have to say thanks for reading my review.

John T. Ryan FOLLOWING THE INDIVIDUAL career successes of both co-stars, Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, the paring of the two in this crime drama send up seemed to be a boffo idea and In$tant Box Office $ucce$$.AS WE RECALL, it did have a certain degree of acceptance; but did not set any record at the turnstiles. Do they have them at movie houses anymore? Critical review also was less than enthusiastic. But then, when we talk of Film Critics, we think of what was said about Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy. That being: "Nobody liked them but the Piublic." OUR MAIN BEEF with this movie is that much of its promotional ads on the TV networks showed Chevy Chase doing some of those falls that made him so well known as a Charter Member of NBC'S Saturday NIGHT.WHICH BRINGS UP the curious coincidental occurrence that both Chevy and Goldie made their names via the network comedy show. In the case of Miss Hawn it was ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH IN, nearly a decade before the debut of Saturday NIGHT.SO, AS SILLY as it sounds, we took our kids to see it with us and were just a trifle surprised to see how many violent situations were so forcefully portrayed. But then, as we didn't understand then, it was both a spoof of and an homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock.ONE OTHER ASPECT of this movie that we want to make, before signing off, is its use of the Pope, the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church at the center of its plot. This would make Writer/Director Colin Higgins an "ahead of his time" pioneer; for this predated both Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER: Part III and Ron Howard's THE DA VINCI CODE by some years.

mark.waltz "Kojak, Bang Bang!" "The albino works for the dwarf!" "She was one tough mama!"With lines like that, you know you're not in the San Francisco of Jeanette MacDonald and Clark Gable anymore. This is "Tales of the City" era San Francisco when you may not have worn a flower in your hair, but you could enjoy some great people watching in Golden Gate Park or down near the Embarcadero, and try and stroll down Lombard street without being hit by either Barbara Streisand and Ryan O'Neal on a hot dog cart with a suitcase filled with rocks or Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase on their way to save a world leader from a terrorist organization.The gorgeous Goldie as at her screwball comedy best, a modern day Carole Lombard who works as a librarian and goes home to have dinner with her landlord and his pet snake, Esme, that is until the day police officer Chevy Chase comes into her life. He's assigned to protect her when she inadvertently gets her hands on some microfilm from a man she courageously picked up hitch-hiking. Having met at a party on the other side of the Golden Gate earlier (and not quite hit it off), that all changes now, and when Goldie is thrust into the middle of a federal investigation, she finds herself in dangers she never imagined she could be in.During her adventure, Hawn runs into some of the oddest characters you would ever encounter: a horny orchestra conductor (Dudley Moore) with a gadget filled play-pen in his bachelor pad; the rough-and-tough "secretary" to the Bishop of San Francisco (Rachel Roberts); a sweet bible selling little person (Billy Barty) whom she mistakes for the villain known as the dwarf, and of course, the man with the scar and the albino, both dangerous hit men on the mission of all missions. Burgess Meredith is hysterically funny as the landlord with the snake. There's also a very amusing sequence with Goldie spying on two old ladies playing scrabble.This is all concluded with one of the wackiest car chase sequences ever shot, along with "What's Up Doc?" and of course the more serious "Bullitt" utilizing as much of San Francisco's famous sights as it can. Then, there is the "Man Who Knew Too Much" spoof finale, one of the most bizarre productions of "The Mikado" ever staged with hysterical reactions by the cast and backstage personnel as the plot is wrapped up. Farce and screwball comedy really work when they surround a great plot, and "Foul Play" utilizes these elements very thoroughly. The classic Barry Manilow song "Ready to Take a Chance Again" is unforgettably heard here as Goldie drives back from Marin County into the city, the mountains and the city within distance. There's no chance to take here. Once you watch it, you will want to see it on a fairly regular basis over and over again.