ThiefHott Too much of everything

Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

lludwig-33628 Wow... worst movie I have seen in years. Forced, corny, an obvious attempt to create something akin to Monty Python and it just fell flat as day old beer. Both Sutherland and Wilder have done so much better work, but this was a bomb! It really does resemble something that would have come out of a high school drama class if they had access to the camera sets and costumes. Bad, just really... bad.

SnoopyStyle On their way to Paris, Duke de Sissi and his pregnant wife stop at a country doctor's home to deliver. A peasant couple is already there. Both couples have twin boys but the busy doctor gets the babies mixed up. In 1789, brothers Charles (Donald Sutherland) and Claude Coupé (Gene Wilder) are two cowardly peasant revolutionaries. Philippe (Gene Wilder) and Pierre DeSisi (Donald Sutherland) are arrogant aristocrats in Corsica. King Louis XVI is in his summer palace. His wife Marie Antoinette is interested in all the men except her husband. Duke d'Escargot is scheming in the royal court. He delivers a letter from Marie to the Desisis with a scheme to betray the King. They plan to come in disguise but their peasant twins get mistaken for them.This comedy has some good wackiness but it does get repetitive. This depends a lot on the pairing of Sutherland and Wilder. They are likable enough but they do pale in comparison. Sutherland has done better. Wilder would eventually find his comedic soulmate in Richard Pryor. It's a wacky historical comedy that has its wacky moments.

moonspinner55 In mid-16th Century France, a Duke brings his pregnant wife to the village doctor where she delivers twin boys--but the dotty nursemaid and the exasperated doctor mix the babies up with the newly-born twin boys of another couple, a peasant farmer and his wife, with each couple getting one correct child and one wrong. Thirty years later, the two sets of mismatched twins meet, but not before the peasants stage a revolt against bumbling King Louis XVI. Filmed entirely on location, this Bud Yorkin farce looks almost too good, too authentic for the pratfalls and slapstick nonsense which he stages on opulent castle grounds; the historic minutiae dwarfs the loosely-hinged plot, which isn't fully thought out to begin with. Worse, Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland fail to become the Abbott and Costello team the filmmakers probably hoped they'd be. Wilder sticks to his short-fuse mania and gets off some big laughs, but Sutherland's preening fop/subdued street fighter never quite emerges as a three-dimensional character. Yorkin overdoses on swashbuckling action, a handful of riffs on Dumas, and some playful girl-ogling, yet at the expense of developing these characters (even the sequence where the peasant brothers are mistakenly brought to the castle falls flat on a narrative level, with a ruse about a violin case that feels pretty fatuous). However, there are several witty verbal duals which are smartly executed, and from a technical stand-point the film is keenly-judged--from the locations to the costumes to the music. But once the viewer realizes the movie is just a series of blackout sketches, the trimmings seem rather lofty and the frenzied footwork seems much ado about little. ** from ****

mcdgames To put it simply, this movie is outrageous. It flopped during its theater tenure because everyone was too high-strung over Vietnam and other period conflicts to actually understand this comedy. This fact is also touched on during the commentary by the director himself."Revolution" is in the same league as the Zucker Brothers. It's gags gain momentum as the movie unwinds, until it's whipping around during the last few scenes almost out of control, yet marvelously in control.This is a movie that has Gene Wilder at his comic peak. He's pre-Wonka and pre-"FrankenSTEEN" here, and hasn't found temperance in his angry hysteria. I've watched this movie close to 15 times, and I can't handle myself when Wilder is galloping around with his stuffed falcon. And the gags in his marriage! "Bring the leather and the honey ... " (His character's wife looks at the camera with a look of worry).Donald Sutherland is reserved, but he's not well known for his comedy. Yet he has excellent moments, especially in strangling adversaries on the dock with one hand! "...and I shall be the Queeeeen!" The funniest pieces here are actually the lines. Read the quotes! Oh my, a gold mine!