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I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now

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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.

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.

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.

Hilarious, bad humor. A dwarf asking for payment in "small bills" type of jokes. Tons of one liners and it is so BAD it is good.
I laughed out loud several times and choked on my iced tea but yes it was stupid, but very quick and funny if you don't take it seriously.

Hilarious, bad humor. A dwarf asking for payment in "small bills" type of jokes. Tons of one liners and it is so BAD it is good.
I laughed out loud several times and choked on my iced tea but yes it was stupid, but very quick and funny if you don't take it seriously.

For the legions of Bob Dishy fans out there, this is for you. For the rest of us, IWWKHN is like drinking a battery acid cocktail- It's just not very funny! I kept hoping, praying for any shred of humor, only to be rewarded w/ tedium and Zzzzz..., Huh? Oh yeah, where was I? Anyway, this movie is NOT funny, unless you howl at reruns of Gilligan's Island. Oliver (Dishy) takes out a million dollar life insurance policy on his wife (Joanna Barns) in order to have her terminated so he can collect. Watching the execution of this set-up is much like swallowing a jagged brick! Slow and painful...

Apparently meant to be zany, this incredibly stupid film relates the predicament of "Oliver" (Bob Dishy) who, after being caught pilfering a quarter of a million from his employer, is given a chance, because his father founded the firm, to recompense that amount within 30 days in order to have charges dropped; however, when his wealthy wife, played by Joanna Barnes, informs him of her intention to obtain a divorce, thereby cutting off his income, Oliver arranges for a two-week, million dollar life insurance policy for his spouse with him as sole beneficiary, intending therefore to have her murdered, in this fashion solving his felonious fiscal problem. He then openly asks virtually anyone whom he sees if a payment of $25000 will purchase the murder of his wife, and finally locates a character named Bobo (Bill Dana) who agrees to take on the assignment, but when Oliver changes his mind he finds that Bobo has sub-contracted the hit to another who does the same and so on and on ad nauseum, while a flock of sub-contractors, in this poorly filmed, edited and acted affair, chase about in search of the final $6.95 assassin at the bottom of the barrel, where belongs this weakly episodic movie that is primarily composed of one-liners and gauche physical comedy that rarely is comic.