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yes, it really is funny, February 22, 2010
This review is from: I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now [VHS] (VHS Tape)
A dopey, silly, funny movie, but perhaps not for everyone. Some elements of Woody Allen's Bananas, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, the Keystone Cops, etc., yet has its own dumb identity that should get a few laughs from you.
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I Wonder Who's Boring Her Now?, February 20, 2008
This review is from: I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now [VHS] (VHS Tape)
It took me about 30 seconds to regret sitting down to watch "I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?" starring the saccharine Bob Dishy as Jordan Oliver, a criminal businessman caught embezzling from his employer. Dishy is smarmy and unlikable in this unfunny comedy, but in fairness the material doesn't give him much to work with. The concept here is that Dishy is in a bind for money so tries to have his wife assassinated for the insurance proceeds; he gets this idea from the only modestly amusing concept in the film in which a movie-within-a-movie concept is used to (relatively) good effect, although the musical number that epiphany causes is less enjoyable.
A series of murder-for-hire subcontracts, wacky characters, and predictable situations are the driving forces behind the "comedy" in the film. Dishy appears playing a piano in a chicken suit in yet another comedic fraud; a very bad caricature of an Asian doctor provides extensive pain for the audience while conducting an undercover examination of Dishy's wife; and perhaps most embarrassingly, Dishy constantly imitates Humphrey Bogart, violating the cardinal rule which says that it is very unwise to make references to a good movie in the middle of a bad movie. Among the unsavory individuals encountered is Bill Dana as "Captain Bobo", a ruffian in debt to the mob, an Indian musician who wants the money from the scheme for $4000 worth of lip gloss, and the worst Bela Lugosi impersonator in film history working at a weight loss clinic. This is a repellant picture and I can't think of any reason to recommend it to any audience.
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I Wonder Who's Boring Her Now?, February 17, 2008
It took me about 30 seconds to regret sitting down to watch "I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?" starring the saccharine Bob Dishy as Jordan Oliver, a criminal businessman caught embezzling from his employer. Dishy is smarmy and unlikable in this unfunny comedy, but in fairness the material doesn't give him much to work with. The concept here is that Dishy is in a bind for money so tries to have his wife assassinated for the insurance proceeds; he gets this idea from the only modestly amusing concept in the film in which a movie-within-a-movie concept is used to (relatively) good effect, although the musical number that epiphany causes is less enjoyable.
A series of murder-for-hire subcontracts, wacky characters, and predictable situations are the driving forces behind the "comedy" in the film. Dishy appears playing a piano in a chicken suit in yet another comedic fraud; a very bad caricature of an Asian doctor provides extensive pain for the audience while conducting an undercover examination of Dishy's wife; and perhaps most embarrassingly, Dishy constantly imitates Humphrey Bogart, violating the cardinal rule which says that it is very unwise to make references to a good movie in the middle of a bad movie. Among the unsavory individuals encountered is Bill Dana as "Captain Bobo", a ruffian in debt to the mob, an Indian musician who wants the money from the scheme for $4000 worth of lip gloss, and the worst Bela Lugosi impersonator in film history working at a weight loss clinic. This is a repellant picture and I can't think of any reason to recommend it to any audience.
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