Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

preppy-3 A man (Jack Weston} discovers his brother-in-law (Jerry Stiller)is trying to kill him. He gets into a cab and tells the cabdriver to take him where he won't be discovered. He's taken to the Ritz-a gay bathhouse.This is an adaptation of a successful Broadway play. Most of the cast from the play recreate their parts in the movie including Rita Moreno who won a Tony for the play.It's well-done with the cast going full force. The play was a slamming door farce that almost never works in movies but here it does. Also the movie is refreshingly non-homophobic. And Moreno and Treat Williams (as a detective) are hysterical. Worth watching.

blanche-2 1976'a "The Ritz," based on the Broadway play by Terrence McNally, is an absolute riot.On the run from the brother-in-law Carmine (Jerry Stiller) who's trying to kill him, Gaetano Procio (Jack Weston) orders a cab to take him someplace where no one can find him. The cabbie takes him to The Ritz, a gay bathhouse. There, Gaetano meets some bizarre characters: a chubby chaser (Paul Price); a macho man with a high voice (Treat Williams); Puerto Rican entertainer Googie Gomez (Rita Moreno) whom Gaetano assumes is a drag queen; his own wife (Kaye Ballard) who comes searching for him dressed as a man; and someone just there to party and enter the talent contest (F. Murray Abraham).The laughs are non-stop in this somewhat dated but very funny movie, complete with a talent show where Weston is one of the Andrews sisters, mistaken identity, and Googie's unbelievable nightclub act, during which she sings "Everything's Comin' Up Roses." The performances are all terrific, but Moreno has the killer role as Googie, who claims a producer named Seymour Pippin got her fired from both Sound of Music and Camelot. Kaye Ballard has a scene at the end of the film that had me screaming with laughter. She is just fabulous.Truly a no-miss. Unfortunately they don't make this kind of comedy any longer.

Don Daniels It was 1976, Tehran Iran. Terry, also American, and I were bored at work and on the spur of the moment decided to skip out and check out the Tehran Film Festival. Boy, did we have no idea what we were getting in for.It just so happened that the next film on the bill was The Ritz. We knew nothing about it, but we hailed our driver, raced downtown to the theater, and made it in just in time.Before long, we were rolling on the floor. Truly, we couldn't hold on to our seats, I can't speak for Terry but the tears were just pouring down my face from laughter. And what made this worse was that, in a mostly packed theater, it seemed that most of the time the two of us near the back were the only ones laughing. Oh, every once and while the Farsi sub-titles would catch-up and the rest of the theater would let out a good laugh, I guess they were having a good time, but it was amazing to us how much was being missed, even some of the visual humor.I suppose we were both just overdo for some comic relief, but I've watched this film again through the years and it remains one of the funniest films I have ever seen. Jack Weston as the everyman-victim is perfect, as is Rita Morena as a never-quite-been, trying with varying degrees of success, to retain her dignity, her temper, and her dreams. And the rest of the cast -- who can you fault? Yes, from the dark opening deathbed scene, to all the madcap mistakes that follow, this is farce that at times sinks almost as low as the Three Stooges, but keeps sailing from floor to floor with surprise laughs at every turn.Some folks can't seem to get past the subject matter, I guess. But if you can find this movie, and you can open your mind beyond the lifestyle to just enjoy all the zaniness that happens, then hang on to your towel!

Robert D. Ruplenas I had caught this zany gay bathouse farce years ago and remembered it during a recent discussion of the gay subculture with a gay friend of mine. I wondered if the movie would be considered offensive by/to gays. Having seen it again, I would think not, and at least one gay reviewer here agrees with me. With mistaken identities, misunderstood intentions, and straight cluelessness, it is a hilarious comic romp. All the participants put in excellent comic work here. Rita Moreno, as mentioned often here, is particularly wonderful as the hopeless but aspiring singer - the accent is a hoot. Hard to find nowadays, but definitely worth seeing.