In the game, there is a rule that if a player's pawn stops in a doorway, no other player's pawn can move past. Throughout the film, the characters keep bunching up and getting stuck in doorways and narrow passages. It is brilliant.
Simone: "i have to pull back the shower curtain in case anyone is hiding behind there" Also Simone 5 minutes later: "i want a house with secret passage ways" you gotta love her.
Whenever someone reacts to Clue I always want to offer the same advice: This movie was blessed with some of the best comedic actors of the time. Forget the mystery and enjoy the laughs.
Clue is not really a whodunnit, because there is no way you would figure out the killer. Rather, it is in the 'old dark house' genre, which is a kind of dark comedy that was around in the black-and-white era. Examples include The Old Dark House (of course), The Cat & The Canary (remade multiple times), The Last Warning, and The House On Haunted Hill.
"It's a matter of life after death. He died and I got a life." Madeline Kahn steals this movie and every film she's in. That and the "flames on the side of my face" speech are some of my favorite lines from any film. Also, Tim Curry is hilarious running from room to room during his reveals, but he's also being true to the board game. In the game, if you want to make an accusation, you have to be in the room where you are saying that it happened. I love that detail.
Fun fact. 'Flames on the side of my face' was due to her forgetting her line yet committing to the bit. The director loved it and kept it in the final cut.
@@Sage2000 Yes. Those werent her lines. The movie was very tightly written with zero room for coming up with lines on your own, Improvisation. Well they get to Madelines monolog and she forgets her lines, so she improvizes the "Flames" bit. Director liked it so much he kept it in the film instead of reshooting the scene.
Got in trouble at an old job once when my manager was going on and on in a meeting and said "to make a long story short" and I reflexively blurted out "too late." Then I had to explain to her it was a bit from the Clue movie, which she did not believe was an actual movie.
The actress playing the Singing Telegram Girl was Jane Wiedlin, who is better known as the rhythm guitarist for the Go-Go's. You've seen her previously as Joan of Arc in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."
Good lord. We are so old. We know Jane Wiedlin of GoGos fame and Lee Ving who taught us about Fear. We should probably all hook up and watch Streets of Fire.
@@michaelchenault3693 you should check out the podcast Junkfood Cinema. been going strong for 10 years so a great back catalogue and still going strong.
The fact that Simone fully cracked up when the singing telegram girl got shot makes her my new favorite person, because that’s exactly how I reacted when I first saw that scene 🤣
When he said "Robin Williams energy" my mouth automatically said "cocaine?" (That's not a diss on Robin, all the comedy greats were wired for the entire 80s and most of the 90s...)
Not only was the Flames monologue improv, but they (as a group of talented comedians) were under strict orders to *not*deviate from the script. It's all so fast and impeccable and that's the zany vibe they wanted. But Kahn thought this would be a brilliant spot to break that, and actually got permission to try...but nobody else was told. Some of the looks as she's babbling from the others are legit "what the hell is she doing?" looks. Or recreated to be (when she's in the shot, the others visible are definitely reacting legit, the individual shots might have been pick ups to reinforce the scene). That woman was a genius, really. I love her delivery of" he wasn't a very good illusionist" too because she basically drops the entire front Mrs White puts up and uses a straight conversational voice, like she's just so pleased with herself or something.
This is an unpopular opinion, but that is not my favorite moment in the film. It's funny, and Madeline is great. But as you said: so much of the dialogue and pace of the film is snappy, snappy, snappy. And that stilted, stuttering ad-lib is slow and ponderous, and brings down the flow of that whole frenetic last chapter. From the moment Wadsworth starts explaining and running around the house, the energy (and music score) is turned up to eleven! ...Then Mrs. White has her pause.. to explain her burning hatred.. of Yvette.. and the flames.. and stuff... andthenthemusicpicksupandwe'rebacktothefreneticenergyagain. As a moment of Ms. Kahn being hilarious, it is hilarious. The timing in the midst of the action always pulls me away. So I end up very lukewarm about the moment. I don't hate it; it's funny! But I don't love it, either. -my 2¢ But this is for sure among my favorite films of all time. The cast is perfection, the script is tight as a drum, every little detail and nod to the game and to pop culture of the period. The slapstick humor, the wordplay humor, the physical humor, the reactions, the jokes: just so amazing.
Dude is copper bottomed genius, as the British say. Love his alter ego Jerry Palter from A Mighty Wind / The Folksmen. It isn't everyone that is in not just one, but two bands that are simultaneously real and fictional.
26:57 I can’t remember where I’ve seen it before, but I’ve seen this at least twice: people in Hollywood referencing “Flames… on the side of my face.” It’s one of the best lines in cinema, imo, and it’s partially due to the fact that before this movie, “real people messing up” wasn’t included in movies. It may have been an improv scene, but it’s such a real reaction for someone whose character has serious rage repression issues. Madeline was right to portray a murderer as tripping over her own thoughts trying to speak about just how angry she was in the presence of her husband’s mistress Yvette, and she spent the whole movie not letting her true feelings show, until she was busted. Very smart choices on the day.
I always have to give a shout out to Kellye Nakahara (1948-2020) who plays the chef, known to us Generation Xers as Nurse Kelly, second in command of Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit)'s nursing staff from the long-running television series M*A*S*H (1972-1983). M*A*S*H used the sitcom format to lure its audience into solid dramatic storylines culled from actual experiences during the Korean War, and Kelly was one of the most memorable recurring characters, getting to show both her dramatic and comedic chops in one of the best written shows on television. I'm glad she got to do something as straightforwardly goofy as Clue.
Oh shoot is that her?! Every time I see this movie I think she looks familiar but just write it off as me having seen this movie so many times. I remember her now that you mention it. MASH was my jam in junior high for some reason, I watched it obsessively 😂 But it’s been a while since then.
@@inhumanmusic1411 Respectfully: Sorry, but I think you're thinking of actress Elaine Miles, who played "Marilyn Whirlwind" on Northern Exposure: the doctor's monotone receptionist. I can see a passing resemblance, so I can understand how you would mis-remember it that way, but Kellye was never on Northern Exposure. Kellye was Japanese, born in Hawaii. Elaine is Native American. Also incidentally, the character she played was Tlingit. "Eskimo" is a term that natives of the northern areas do not prefer. Just FYI.
@@TSIRKLAND They played up Kellye's actual ancestry in one episode where Hawkeye (Alan Alda) asks Kellye for an aortic graft in terms of Italian pasta size, and when she says she's part Japanese, part Hawaiian, and asks for an ethnic translation she can understand, he says, "A small egg roll!"
The way the multiple endings build on each other is really what makes this movie for me. I can see why the theater version didn't do that well. Only having one of the endings wouldn't hit in quite the same way. There's just an insane build-up of energy in that last 30 minutes to the final climax.
They actually labeled the theaters/tickets with which of the 3 you were seeing (unless you were unlucky enough to live somewhere that decided to not bother) so you could rewatch the movie to see all 3 over time
The way the third ends with Mr Green actually doing the game thing "it was me, in the hall, with the revolver" gives it a symbolic sorta "we were leading up to that the entire time" vibe that always made me wonder why they split it for theaters. It felt like it was meant to be put together like that.
It's a nice touch if you think about the game - there isn't a set story, so it could be literally anyone with anything in any room. Especially since in the final ending, one person announces themselves as the murderer which was always something I found a bit wonky! If I murdered someone, I figure I would have known...
@neilbiggs1353 It is supposed to be that they get called out, not that they confess. Besides: I have played a murder mystery at a party where we were all characters and played out the story during the party. It was quite fun, and my realisation that I was the murderer was a great moment for me.
Bless this movie. Imagine, a ten year old boy running around quoting Madeline Kahn, “Husbands should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.” This movie is ingrained in my soul.
Hah, now that I know what it's from, when I go back and listen to it again I swear I hear it in Inu Yasha's voice, like the dusty fossil of a long-buried memory 😆
And there's another reason among many that I don't watch dubs, I hate it when they translate attack names. It sounds so lame and clumsy, especially when they translate too literally.
The improv in this movie is a master class. I love watching Tim Curry’s physical comedy. The timing is impeccable. The banter is insane. Everything about this movie works exactly the way a movie based on a board game shouldn’t.
HATED that line!! Damaged the whole film for me. I thought, is it possible, is it actually possible, I'm seeing a flim where the hero gets to be gay?!? YEEEE.... oh. He's het. Of course. Can't ever let gays succeed or be heroic in anything. Felt the rug pulled out from under me, just a bait and switch.
@@Aeroldoth3 yeah I hate that line too for the same reason and usually skip it because I still love the movie so much. It’s a general headcanon that he is still gay but has to say that when he’s in front of this boss for obvious reasons. (But I wish they did it better)
Two corpses, everything’s fine! I am so glad you’ve covered this someone hidden gem of a movie. It deserves a lot more attention that it ever got. One of my favourite comedies.
Favorite. Movie. Ever. So quotable. "Are you afraid of fate worse than death?" "No, just death. Isn't that enough?" "Armageddon is upon us." "I got news for ya, it's already here." ... "Your souls are in danger." "Our lives are in danger, ya beatnik! " 😂😂😂😂
The more times you watch this movie, the more you enjoy it and the funnier it gets. So many weird little bits and quotes and background gags and just absurdity. Love this movie!
One of my favorites. I saw this when I was a kid. So many good jokes and quotes. "Flames, on the side of my face..." And that tiny scream she does out of nowhere.
I loved that you pointed out Madeline Kahn’s performance. She was such a talented comedic actor. You should check out her film debut. It’s the 1972 film What’s Up, Doc? It also stars Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neil. It’s considered one of the best comedies of all time.
All the reactions I’ve seen to this, everyone is so preoccupied trying to guess the murderer, they miss a lot of the humor (especially the subtle stuff). First time I watched this it was the opposite. I was having so much fun with the humor, I forgot to try to guess/follow who the killer might be. Definitely a movie that needs a rewatch! Thanks for sharing!
Murder By Death has to be added to your must see list now. Another film with Eileen Brennan who personified the world weary archetype in so many roles.
Madeline Khan's bit when she was talking about flames on the side of her face is my favorite line reading in all of cinema. Tim Curry's performance in this is a masterpiece as well.
Not just any punk band either. They were the epitome of punk back in the late 70s early 80s. I encourage anyone interested to watch Fear's Saturday Night Live performance here on UA-cam. It got them banned from the show, btw.
On top of the (main) characters, rooms and weapons all being authentic to the board game, the secret passages in the movie lead to and from the exact same rooms as the game as well. So pleased you got to react to this - it probably won't surprise you that, with minimal sets, no costume changes, and being heavy on the dialogue and slapstick, it makes for the *perfect* amateur theatre production. There is (hopefully still) at least one extremely faithful uni society adaptation available in full on UA-cam - their Wadsworth in particular would make Tim Curry proud!
@@dereknolin5986 legitimate answer... the scarlet ending actually does make sense. The others, entertaining as they are, don't really appear plausible.
@@dannykent6190 I have to disagree, I think the most plausible is all of them killing someone. One person keeping their composure that entire time is unlikely, but even more Than that, they’re all desperate and a little crazy. I watched a UA-cam video about how them all killing someone is the most realistic too, I forgot who made ti
The singing telegram girl is Jane Wiedlin who is a member of the 80’s girl group The Go Go’s. The actress who played the cook had a recurring role on the show M.A.S.H as a nurse.
You should try “Noises Off” with Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Carol Burnett and more. Such a blast with a touch of the feel the last 30 minutes of this has.
I second the motion. Pure hilarity. I had the pleasure of playing the Michael Caine character in a stage production years ago. The live version is even more chaotic.
I was in a theater club production of it in college, and the giant two story set wasn't quite finished by opening night, so things kept breaking and it became a surreal example of life imitating art, and we the actors had to just keep improving and rolling with it when the stair bannister broke and candelsticks fell off walls, etc.
@@brianharris3714I got to play Gary my freshman year of high school. My favorite show I’ve ever done. I had the honor of playing Wadsworth my junior year funny enough.
I was 11 when this came out, and my mom drove me and my best friend to three different theaters spread across OKC to see the three endings. Great stuff! RIP Madeline Kahn, one of the funniest, most talented humans to grace the silver screen.
Wadsworth, the NY concierge, Rooster, Darkness, OG Pennywise, and Frank-N-Furter! Seriously, how can one person be that fantastic?!? And nice album reference, Simone! Loving your reaction! Watching you two try to figure it out 😂😂😂 @27:31 Nailed it! 0 cringe 👏👏👏
If you want a similar, and equally incomprehensible and silly, murder mystery, I’d recommend the movie Murder By Death, which actually features the actress playing Mrs. Peacock, as well as Peter Faulk as a Sam Spade-alike, David Niven and Maggie Smith as a married detective couple, Peter Sellers as a radically offensive Chinese detective, and Alec Guinness as a blind butler. It’s a riot.
Fun Fact...all 6 people killed in all versions, were each killed with 1 of the 6 weapons *Mrs. Ho with the knife *Mr. Boddy with the candlestick *The Motorist with the wrench *Yvette with the rope *The Cop with the lead pipe *The Singing Telegram Girl with the revolver
The secret passages also match where they lead to on the game board as well as where the rooms are in relation to each other. Another great detail true board gamers appreciate!
When these movies came out they were billed at the theaters as Clue A , Clue B and Clue C. So depending on what theater you went to see it at the theater it you only saw one ending so you would drive around town to different theaters so you could say you saw all 3 endings and people would discuss what endings they thought were the real one. For the most part ending A was the favorite. And that was the last one on the video. At the theater the endings were reversed . Example:: Clue A ( everyone killed people and Curry is Mr. Body) Clue B Mrs. Scarlett Clue C Mrs Peacock. I loved all of them.
My favorite moment in any comedy ever is the "Flames, flames on the side of my face" mini monologue. Just comedic perfection by an absolute legend. 😂😂❤
Madeline Kahn had the only improvised lines in the movie (the flames on the side of her face scene), as the script was very meticulous. But it's her scream after Mr. Green that always kills me! ("I hate it when he does that!")
At the multiplexes when this came out - different theaters within the mutliplex had the different endings. Usually they combine those and then show the "real" ending. Madeline Kahn's "Flames on the side of my face!" has become pretty iconic.
You wouldn't think that a movie with this much star power behind would tank, but it did. I've always liked it though. The campiness of it makes it a fun watch. Another lesser known but equally campy murder mystery is "Once Upon a Crime" (1992). It has a great ensemble cast like this movie, including John Candy, James Belushi, Sean Young, the late Richard Lewis (just passed away), Cybill Sheppard and George Hamilton. It's mostly forgotten, but very fun to watch.
I'm so happy Simone laughed uncontrollably at the singing telegram shooting scene. When I was a kid I used to watch this movie often and it always made me cackle like a damn bastard.
For me, the best thing about this film is that, knowing how it ends, if you re-watch the film, you can see how every theory could be real, due to which character was where in each scene.
There are a couple of mistakes though. When Boddy turns the lights out the room they are in contains a fireplace that is shown to have a fire going in it so even without the power there should have been enough light that someone would have seen who hit Boddy. Then in the scene where the motorist is killed he is shown standing in front of a mirror while he is on the phone. You can clearly see the fireplace that acts as the secret passage entrance in the reflection of the mirror so no one should have been able to sneak up from behind him. Finally when have you ever seen two women carry purses with nothing in them? Both Scarlett and Peacock show their purses to not only not have the gun in them in the versions where the other one does all the killing but they show their purse to not have anything at all in them.
My parents have always joked that with me being raised watching this movie and Airplane occasionally, I never had a chance to have anything but a twisted, good sense of humor.
I don't think I have ever seen someone react to Murder By Death. Even if they did, they wouldn't get half the references or even know who the characters were lampooning.
@@mgass1354 Yeah, that's the problem. They'd have to react to Maltese Falcon, Thin Man movies, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan and Hercule Poirot movies first!
@@rcrawford42when I recommend it I always tell them to watch at least *one* of the movies for each detective before watching Murder By Death so they understand the characters being parodied.
@@rcrawford42I have to respectfully disagree! When I first saw it as a teen in the 80s I had no idea they were lampooning anything. It really didn't occur to me until later but I still loved the movie just on the strength of the performances and the incredible writing. Being familiar with the original sources just adds to the fun, but that movie can still stand on its own!
This might be my favorite reaction you two have ever done! The sheer joy had me smiling from ear-to-ear.😂 Also, from here on out, anytime someone says "long story short", you have to reply with, "too late". It's an unwritten rule.
This is one of those movies that I have to feel out a person before recommending it to them. The humor is so specific and I know it's not everyone's jam, but I love it so much. I don't know if either of you have ever seen the TV show Psych, but they do a lot of homage episodes and Clue was one of my favorites.
Mr. Green is Michael McKean. He was David St. Hubbins (the lead singer) in "This is spinal Tap". He was also the highway patrol officer that pulled Steve Martin and John Candy over in "Planes, trains, and automobiles." He's quite well known in comedy, he has worked as a writer on SNL. He also plays the neighbor in the Brady Bunch movie. If you haven't given that a watch yet I'd recommend it. It's groovy! 😂
I dunno how well the Brady Bunch movie would hold up for younger people these days. It's meta as hell, but I doubt a lot know anything about The Brady Bunch outside of the name
@@EidlonesIt was a 90's revival of a 60s(70s?) show already... I enjoy the hell out of those movies and only barely know about the old show. The appeal for younger reactors would be in the cast (McKean, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor) and the satirical humor.
@LordVolkov The old shows were shown on various channels at the time though. Like, I used to watch stuff like I Dream Of Jeannie all the time as a kid in the 90's. At the very least it was still available to be seen and stumbled upon, whereas now, unless you actively seek it out, you aren't going to see a frame.
Me and my sister loved this movie as kids. We would quote the singing telegram scene often. I remember Eileen Brennan from a Tales from the Crypt episode, she was ruthless mob boss who had John Stamos as a boy toy. Madeline Khan from Blazin' Saddles. Martin Mull as Leon from Roseanne. Micheal McKean from Laverne and Shirley and the Brady Bunch Movie from 1995.
There was a deleted 4th ending that was filmed but not released in theaters that can be read in the official novelization. Wadsworth reveals himself to be Mr. Boddy, like the third ending, and also reveals that the Cognac *was* poisoned, which weakens the entire party from chasing him and manages to fight off the police chief and escapes... but not without realizing the dogs, somehow, got into his car and screams can be heard from the camera panning outside the car as an implied vicious mauling takes place. For obvious reasons, it was deleted for being considered too dark and scary compared to the lighthearted comic nature of the film and to secure the PG rating.
This has been my favorite movie since I was a kid, I used to watch it every day. Can still quote most of it. I also love how once you know the endings, you can go back to see how it works, and people are missing from the right scenes to make all the endings make sense I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but most recently Michael McKean (Mr. Green) played Sargent Shadwell in Good Omens
Last year our fall play was clue. I watched the movie and other high school productions about a thousand times that summer in anticipation. I got Wadsworth. It was so worth it. I was obsessed and it paid off
Can we talk about how the dog poop bit at the beginning is foreshadowing? Everyone has their "whats that smell? Is it me?" - moment when they walk through the door. But we saw Tim Curry step in it. We know that he's the one "who done it".
This is such a fun movie. I envy you being able to experience this wonderful movie for the first time. So many great performances, so much fun, snappy dialogue. Another movie with the same kind of fast-moving dialogue and things getting confused that's lots of fun but few have seen (and that also has Tim Curry in it) is the Sylvester Stallone comedy "Oscar". You should check it out.
It’s a dead heat as to which movie I’ve seen more in my 46-years on Earth: Clue, or Aliens. Never change the channel when either came on, would put them on to have background noise when doing housework, and honestly have probably seen each approaching 1000 times.
I first saw this movie on VHS when my friends and I got it by pure random chance as part of a 2-for-1 weekend deal. We completely ignored the other film we got and watched this about 3 times that weekend. Amazing performances, amazing writing, just a great, great movie all round. It's one that I use a lot when people ask for recommendatsion, because pretty much everyone likes it.
In the game, there is a rule that if a player's pawn stops in a doorway, no other player's pawn can move past. Throughout the film, the characters keep bunching up and getting stuck in doorways and narrow passages. It is brilliant.
That’s hilarious
Mind=blown.
Totally didn't pick up on that before. Amazing
Never noticed that! I need to play again!
Oh wow I’ve never realized that in this movie that’s great
Simone: "i have to pull back the shower curtain in case anyone is hiding behind there"
Also Simone 5 minutes later: "i want a house with secret passage ways"
you gotta love her.
I adore her contradictions.
Clearly the secret passage ways are to be used to dodge unwanted shower dwellers.
@@ItDoesntMatterReally The sequel to C.H.U.D., U.S.D.
Anyone can hide in a shower. But ideally only the home owner would know about the passage ways. Great place to hide!
I love her for everything about her.
"Why has the car stopped?"
"... It's frightened."
😂😂😂
Whenever someone reacts to Clue I always want to offer the same advice: This movie was blessed with some of the best comedic actors of the time. Forget the mystery and enjoy the laughs.
Clue is not really a whodunnit, because there is no way you would figure out the killer. Rather, it is in the 'old dark house' genre, which is a kind of dark comedy that was around in the black-and-white era. Examples include The Old Dark House (of course), The Cat & The Canary (remade multiple times), The Last Warning, and The House On Haunted Hill.
@@ThreadBomb Arsenic and Old Lace
@@ThreadBomb I always liked this with Private Eyes with Don Knotts and Tim Conway.
Fun fact: Madeline Kahn’s speech on how much she hated Evette was ad-libbed.
"It's a matter of life after death. He died and I got a life."
Madeline Kahn steals this movie and every film she's in. That and the "flames on the side of my face" speech are some of my favorite lines from any film.
Also, Tim Curry is hilarious running from room to room during his reveals, but he's also being true to the board game. In the game, if you want to make an accusation, you have to be in the room where you are saying that it happened. I love that detail.
"Flies are where men are most vulnerable!" Once I finally got that joke as a teen 😅 it's been one of my favorite lines since.
And the little scream after the lights came back on
Fun fact. 'Flames on the side of my face' was due to her forgetting her line yet committing to the bit. The director loved it and kept it in the final cut.
@@IronDino This explains why everyone seems so confused by her speech.
It's nice to watch a Clue reaction where the reactors get the J. Edgar Hoover joke 😂
Simone might be the first reactor I've seen get the Kipling/I'll eat anything joke.
Yes - I loved that they got both those references!
@@LordVolkov Please explain that to me.. I didn't know that was a joke.
@@carm3dEating anything... knowing her job. I think that's the joke?
@@carm3dkilling was the root being quoted not food.
I knew immediately that Simone would relate to Madeline Kahn's character in that famous 'flames' improv scene.
I knew George would love the wordplay given his love of puns!
Yes! I clicked on the video and skipped DIRECTLY to this scene!
Improv?
@@Sage2000 Yes. Those werent her lines. The movie was very tightly written with zero room for coming up with lines on your own, Improvisation. Well they get to Madelines monolog and she forgets her lines, so she improvizes the "Flames" bit. Director liked it so much he kept it in the film instead of reshooting the scene.
Thank you @@memnarch129
Because of this hilarious movie, I will always say “too late” when someone tells me “long story short”
It’s also quite fun to say “No” in the Wadsworth tone, and see if anyone catches on.
Got in trouble at an old job once when my manager was going on and on in a meeting and said "to make a long story short" and I reflexively blurted out "too late." Then I had to explain to her it was a bit from the Clue movie, which she did not believe was an actual movie.
@@brakyeller you should have showed her a clip from UA-cam 😂
ditto!
Lol same! I even say it to myself whenever I say "long story short..."
The actress playing the Singing Telegram Girl was Jane Wiedlin, who is better known as the rhythm guitarist for the Go-Go's. You've seen her previously as Joan of Arc in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."
Also in Star Trek IV. I have met her twice!!
Mr. Body was played by Punk Rocker Lee Ving
Good lord. We are so old. We know Jane Wiedlin of GoGos fame and Lee Ving who taught us about Fear. We should probably all hook up and watch Streets of Fire.
@@michaelchenault3693 you should check out the podcast Junkfood Cinema. been going strong for 10 years so a great back catalogue and still going strong.
@@CLOWNBOY68I literally clicked on this thread to say she was a stranded starship captain in The Voyage Home.
The fact that Simone fully cracked up when the singing telegram girl got shot makes her my new favorite person, because that’s exactly how I reacted when I first saw that scene 🤣
I loved how George said that Tim Curry was exceeding Robin Williams's energy at one point. It is by far my favorite performance of his.
Putting Tim Curry up to the task of leaping between reserved and bombastic was a guarantee of resulting greatness.
This is my favorite Tim Curry performance, just ahead of his roll in the Sylvester Stallone comedy "Oscar".
When he said "Robin Williams energy" my mouth automatically said "cocaine?"
(That's not a diss on Robin, all the comedy greats were wired for the entire 80s and most of the 90s...)
I've been saying "flames...flames out the side of my face" for almost 30 years. Lol. Just the best line.
Not only was the Flames monologue improv, but they (as a group of talented comedians) were under strict orders to *not*deviate from the script. It's all so fast and impeccable and that's the zany vibe they wanted. But Kahn thought this would be a brilliant spot to break that, and actually got permission to try...but nobody else was told. Some of the looks as she's babbling from the others are legit "what the hell is she doing?" looks. Or recreated to be (when she's in the shot, the others visible are definitely reacting legit, the individual shots might have been pick ups to reinforce the scene). That woman was a genius, really. I love her delivery of" he wasn't a very good illusionist" too because she basically drops the entire front Mrs White puts up and uses a straight conversational voice, like she's just so pleased with herself or something.
This is an unpopular opinion, but that is not my favorite moment in the film. It's funny, and Madeline is great. But as you said: so much of the dialogue and pace of the film is snappy, snappy, snappy. And that stilted, stuttering ad-lib is slow and ponderous, and brings down the flow of that whole frenetic last chapter. From the moment Wadsworth starts explaining and running around the house, the energy (and music score) is turned up to eleven! ...Then Mrs. White has her pause.. to explain her burning hatred.. of Yvette.. and the flames.. and stuff... andthenthemusicpicksupandwe'rebacktothefreneticenergyagain.
As a moment of Ms. Kahn being hilarious, it is hilarious. The timing in the midst of the action always pulls me away. So I end up very lukewarm about the moment. I don't hate it; it's funny! But I don't love it, either.
-my 2¢
But this is for sure among my favorite films of all time. The cast is perfection, the script is tight as a drum, every little detail and nod to the game and to pop culture of the period. The slapstick humor, the wordplay humor, the physical humor, the reactions, the jokes: just so amazing.
Some of the other actors thought she was having a stroke in that scene because none of them knew she was going to be ad libbing in it.
The perfection of the blocking and precise timing that had to happen for Mr. Green trying to find a seat.
Mr. Green is Michael McKean famous for This is Spinal Tap, also has been on Friends, Better Call Saul, Planes Trains and Automobiles
And was also very famous for his role on Laverne & Shirley
Also from Laverne and Shirley and the Brady Bunch movie in 1995
Dude is copper bottomed genius, as the British say. Love his alter ego Jerry Palter from A Mighty Wind / The Folksmen. It isn't everyone that is in not just one, but two bands that are simultaneously real and fictional.
I always remember him from The X-Files because he was such a ridiculous character.
…and who could forget him as Gibby, Martin Tupper’s incorrigible boss on HBO’s Dream On
26:57 I can’t remember where I’ve seen it before, but I’ve seen this at least twice: people in Hollywood referencing “Flames… on the side of my face.” It’s one of the best lines in cinema, imo, and it’s partially due to the fact that before this movie, “real people messing up” wasn’t included in movies. It may have been an improv scene, but it’s such a real reaction for someone whose character has serious rage repression issues. Madeline was right to portray a murderer as tripping over her own thoughts trying to speak about just how angry she was in the presence of her husband’s mistress Yvette, and she spent the whole movie not letting her true feelings show, until she was busted. Very smart choices on the day.
God, how I adored Madeline Kahn. She was a treasure in everything she was in. But this one? That "flames" scene was glorious!!!
I still don't get it.
I always have to give a shout out to Kellye Nakahara (1948-2020) who plays the chef, known to us Generation Xers as Nurse Kelly, second in command of Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit)'s nursing staff from the long-running television series M*A*S*H (1972-1983). M*A*S*H used the sitcom format to lure its audience into solid dramatic storylines culled from actual experiences during the Korean War, and Kelly was one of the most memorable recurring characters, getting to show both her dramatic and comedic chops in one of the best written shows on television. I'm glad she got to do something as straightforwardly goofy as Clue.
Oh shoot is that her?! Every time I see this movie I think she looks familiar but just write it off as me having seen this movie so many times.
I remember her now that you mention it. MASH was my jam in junior high for some reason, I watched it obsessively 😂 But it’s been a while since then.
She also played a Eskimo in Northern Exposure.
@@inhumanmusic1411 Respectfully:
Sorry, but I think you're thinking of actress Elaine Miles, who played "Marilyn Whirlwind" on Northern Exposure: the doctor's monotone receptionist.
I can see a passing resemblance, so I can understand how you would mis-remember it that way, but Kellye was never on Northern Exposure.
Kellye was Japanese, born in Hawaii. Elaine is Native American. Also incidentally, the character she played was Tlingit. "Eskimo" is a term that natives of the northern areas do not prefer. Just FYI.
@@TSIRKLAND They played up Kellye's actual ancestry in one episode where Hawkeye (Alan Alda) asks Kellye for an aortic graft in terms of Italian pasta size, and when she says she's part Japanese, part Hawaiian, and asks for an ethnic translation she can understand, he says, "A small egg roll!"
The way the multiple endings build on each other is really what makes this movie for me. I can see why the theater version didn't do that well. Only having one of the endings wouldn't hit in quite the same way. There's just an insane build-up of energy in that last 30 minutes to the final climax.
Another issue was that no one knew which ending it would be, so a lot of people would go multiple times & end up seeing the exact same one lol
They actually labeled the theaters/tickets with which of the 3 you were seeing (unless you were unlucky enough to live somewhere that decided to not bother) so you could rewatch the movie to see all 3 over time
The way the third ends with Mr Green actually doing the game thing "it was me, in the hall, with the revolver" gives it a symbolic sorta "we were leading up to that the entire time" vibe that always made me wonder why they split it for theaters. It felt like it was meant to be put together like that.
It's a nice touch if you think about the game - there isn't a set story, so it could be literally anyone with anything in any room. Especially since in the final ending, one person announces themselves as the murderer which was always something I found a bit wonky! If I murdered someone, I figure I would have known...
@neilbiggs1353 It is supposed to be that they get called out, not that they confess. Besides: I have played a murder mystery at a party where we were all characters and played out the story during the party. It was quite fun, and my realisation that I was the murderer was a great moment for me.
Bless this movie. Imagine, a ten year old boy running around quoting Madeline Kahn, “Husbands should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.” This movie is ingrained in my soul.
So, I guess your husband is like Kleenex?
Let that be a lesson not to get too snotty with Mrs. White.
As a gay, I’ve been quoting her since I was a little kid too 😂
That is amazing 😂
@@Wraiven22Same here! 👏😄
OMG the Inuyasha nostalgia hit at the beginning!!
Ah thank you. I KNEW I’d heard that phrase somewhere but couldn’t remember.
I can’t believe George didn’t know lol
Hah, now that I know what it's from, when I go back and listen to it again I swear I hear it in Inu Yasha's voice, like the dusty fossil of a long-buried memory 😆
And there's another reason among many that I don't watch dubs, I hate it when they translate attack names. It sounds so lame and clumsy, especially when they translate too literally.
The improv in this movie is a master class. I love watching Tim Curry’s physical comedy. The timing is impeccable. The banter is insane. Everything about this movie works exactly the way a movie based on a board game shouldn’t.
"I'm going home and sleep with my wife." What a final line to a movie!
That's the one I remember the most from this film haha
Wonderfully random and kind-of shocking.
@@ThreadBomb it wasn't random, it was a call back to him saying he was being blackmailed for being gay. I guess that was just part of his cover.
HATED that line!! Damaged the whole film for me. I thought, is it possible, is it actually possible, I'm seeing a flim where the hero gets to be gay?!? YEEEE.... oh. He's het. Of course. Can't ever let gays succeed or be heroic in anything. Felt the rug pulled out from under me, just a bait and switch.
@@Aeroldoth3 yeah I hate that line too for the same reason and usually skip it because I still love the movie so much. It’s a general headcanon that he is still gay but has to say that when he’s in front of this boss for obvious reasons. (But I wish they did it better)
Two corpses, everything’s fine! I am so glad you’ve covered this someone hidden gem of a movie. It deserves a lot more attention that it ever got. One of my favourite comedies.
Favorite. Movie. Ever. So quotable.
"Are you afraid of fate worse than death?"
"No, just death. Isn't that enough?"
"Armageddon is upon us."
"I got news for ya, it's already here."
...
"Your souls are in danger."
"Our lives are in danger, ya beatnik! " 😂😂😂😂
"I... Am... Your singing telegram!"" BANG
don't forget;
"To make a long story short--"
"Too late!"
"I had to stop her screaming!" 🤓
My favorite: "How many husbands did you have?" "Mine or other women´s?"
"I choose to expose myself!"
"Please, there are women present!"
The more times you watch this movie, the more you enjoy it and the funnier it gets. So many weird little bits and quotes and background gags and just absurdity. Love this movie!
One of my favorites. I saw this when I was a kid. So many good jokes and quotes. "Flames, on the side of my face..." And that tiny scream she does out of nowhere.
Madeline Kahn's adlibbed monologue was the ONLY adlib allowed in the movie. Apparently they were pretty strict about adhering exactly to the script.
I just looked it up, but to my surprise, buttle is a word... "work as a butler."
Of course, it’s a word. If it wasn’t, what would all the butlers be doing? Nothing. And a butler who does nothing is not a good butler at all.
@@0okamino A butler who does nothing would be a butt butler, I suppose.
I loved that you pointed out Madeline Kahn’s performance. She was such a talented comedic actor. You should check out her film debut. It’s the 1972 film What’s Up, Doc? It also stars Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neil. It’s considered one of the best comedies of all time.
Also her Mel Brooks movies.
I triple recommend!
i can't recommend this one enough.
What's Up Doc is one of the best films of the 70's. Definitely worth a watch.
And Paper Moon, another Ryan O'Neil flick.
All the reactions I’ve seen to this, everyone is so preoccupied trying to guess the murderer, they miss a lot of the humor (especially the subtle stuff). First time I watched this it was the opposite. I was having so much fun with the humor, I forgot to try to guess/follow who the killer might be. Definitely a movie that needs a rewatch! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my god! Oh my god! You’re watching one of my favorites! It’s one of the most underrated ensemble cast movies, the banter is A+
What happened to Simone's "Oh my God!" counter?
2:00 It's a boot scrape, for that exact purpose. Though usually it was from horses in those days. You can often find them outside old buildings.
Murder By Death has to be added to your must see list now. Another film with Eileen Brennan who personified the world weary archetype in so many roles.
Love this movie, and Tim Curry should've gotten an international standing ovation!!
The flames on the side of my face is the most iconic line from the movie.
Madeline Khan's whole bit about Yvette is a true classic
Madeline Khan's bit when she was talking about flames on the side of her face is my favorite line reading in all of cinema. Tim Curry's performance in this is a masterpiece as well.
The fun here is not so much to figure out whodunit, but in the enjoyment of all the quips and punchlines. Along with the physical humor.
Mr. Green is the singer in Spinal Tap
No way! Far out.
He is also Chuck from Better Call Saul.
One of my favorites! So iconic. All-star cast. I love the tribute that Psych did for their 100th episode.
100 Clues! Mrs Scarlett, Professor Plum, Col Mustard are all in it with Garrett Morris ftw!
Iron Reaver Soul Stealer! is from InuYasha and Yashahime.
Mr. Body was played by Lee Ving - the lead singer for the punk rock band F.E.A.R.
Not just any punk band either. They were the epitome of punk back in the late 70s early 80s. I encourage anyone interested to watch Fear's Saturday Night Live performance here on UA-cam. It got them banned from the show, btw.
I forgot he was in this. Met him before a concert in '84. Great band.
Also in the movie Get Crazy, as Piggy, from the band NADA. Another great film with an all-star cast.
He was also Defoe's right hand man in "Streets of Fire".
@@inhumanmusic1411 I think he used his right hand in Flashdance, too 😛
...or was it his left?
Love how fast you got sucked into trying to solve it ;) Tim Curry being Tim Curry is always fun
Among many other whodunnit mystery movies, this movie was one of Rian Johnson’s biggest influences when he came up with Knives Out. ❤
The entire finale is such an incredible, tour de force physical comedy performence from Tim Curry. It's positively electric.
Tim Curry should have won an Oscar for this. He should have won everything for this performance.
Oh wow, I didn't realize "UNO WHO" until now. Thanks 🤣
On top of the (main) characters, rooms and weapons all being authentic to the board game, the secret passages in the movie lead to and from the exact same rooms as the game as well.
So pleased you got to react to this - it probably won't surprise you that, with minimal sets, no costume changes, and being heavy on the dialogue and slapstick, it makes for the *perfect* amateur theatre production. There is (hopefully still) at least one extremely faithful uni society adaptation available in full on UA-cam - their Wadsworth in particular would make Tim Curry proud!
The two of you have seriously got to create some kind of collection of all the thumbnail images you've created. This one, in particular, is priceless.
This is one of the most rewatchable movies ever. My wife and i have watched it at least 20 times.
It's a nearly perfect movie.
Does it ever make sense?
@@dereknolin5986 legitimate answer... the scarlet ending actually does make sense. The others, entertaining as they are, don't really appear plausible.
@@dannykent6190 Interesting! I'll keep that in mind next time I rewatch it. I think I've only seen it about two and a half times or so.
@@dannykent6190 I have to disagree, I think the most plausible is all of them killing someone. One person keeping their composure that entire time is unlikely, but even more Than that, they’re all desperate and a little crazy. I watched a UA-cam video about how them all killing someone is the most realistic too, I forgot who made ti
The singing telegram girl is Jane Wiedlin who is a member of the 80’s girl group The Go Go’s.
The actress who played the cook had a recurring role on the show M.A.S.H as a nurse.
You should try “Noises Off” with Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Carol Burnett and more. Such a blast with a touch of the feel the last 30 minutes of this has.
I second the motion. Pure hilarity. I had the pleasure of playing the Michael Caine character in a stage production years ago. The live version is even more chaotic.
@@footofjuniper8212I played Gary! And then I directed it years later.
@@brianharris3714 I was in it too, 5 or so years ago. I played Tim and was one of the two guys who built the huge rotating set.
I was in a theater club production of it in college, and the giant two story set wasn't quite finished by opening night, so things kept breaking and it became a surreal example of life imitating art, and we the actors had to just keep improving and rolling with it when the stair bannister broke and candelsticks fell off walls, etc.
@@brianharris3714I got to play Gary my freshman year of high school. My favorite show I’ve ever done. I had the honor of playing Wadsworth my junior year funny enough.
There are two stages of human existence: before witnessing Madeline Kahn’s “flames on the side of my face” speech, and after.
Mr. Green is played by Michael McKean. Amongst many other roles, he was Jimmy's older brother in Better Call Saul.
I remember him from Laverne & Shirley. Yeah I’m old. lol
This is an absolutely perfect film. Cast, script, the comedic timing of them all. It's just magnificent, and one of my favorite Tim Curry roles
I was 11 when this came out, and my mom drove me and my best friend to three different theaters spread across OKC to see the three endings. Great stuff! RIP Madeline Kahn, one of the funniest, most talented humans to grace the silver screen.
Wadsworth, the NY concierge, Rooster, Darkness, OG Pennywise, and Frank-N-Furter! Seriously, how can one person be that fantastic?!? And nice album reference, Simone! Loving your reaction! Watching you two try to figure it out 😂😂😂
@27:31 Nailed it! 0 cringe 👏👏👏
And his voice!!! Ohmygawd! I want him to voice my Alexa! Sing Toxic Love again,Tim.
If you want a similar, and equally incomprehensible and silly, murder mystery, I’d recommend the movie Murder By Death, which actually features the actress playing Mrs. Peacock, as well as Peter Faulk as a Sam Spade-alike, David Niven and Maggie Smith as a married detective couple, Peter Sellers as a radically offensive Chinese detective, and Alec Guinness as a blind butler. It’s a riot.
Fun Fact...all 6 people killed in all versions, were each killed with 1 of the 6 weapons
*Mrs. Ho with the knife
*Mr. Boddy with the candlestick
*The Motorist with the wrench
*Yvette with the rope
*The Cop with the lead pipe
*The Singing Telegram Girl with the revolver
The secret passages also match where they lead to on the game board as well as where the rooms are in relation to each other. Another great detail true board gamers appreciate!
The singing telegram girl was played by Jane Weidlin, the rhythm guitarist and primary background vocalist for the Go-Go's.
Also seen as Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
When these movies came out they were billed at the theaters as Clue A , Clue B and Clue C. So depending on what theater you went to see it at the theater it you only saw one ending so you would drive around town to different theaters so you could say you saw all 3 endings and people would discuss what endings they thought were the real one. For the most part ending A was the favorite. And that was the last one on the video.
At the theater the endings were reversed .
Example::
Clue A ( everyone killed people and Curry is Mr. Body)
Clue B Mrs. Scarlett
Clue C Mrs Peacock.
I loved all of them.
Of course! It provided evidence which theaters would exhibit A, exhibit B, or exhibit C.
This is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. Infinitely rewatchable. The DVD had the option to play with a random ending.
My favorite moment in any comedy ever is the "Flames, flames on the side of my face" mini monologue. Just comedic perfection by an absolute legend. 😂😂❤
Madeline Kahn had the only improvised lines in the movie (the flames on the side of her face scene), as the script was very meticulous.
But it's her scream after Mr. Green that always kills me! ("I hate it when he does that!")
At the multiplexes when this came out - different theaters within the mutliplex had the different endings. Usually they combine those and then show the "real" ending. Madeline Kahn's "Flames on the side of my face!" has become pretty iconic.
This is one of my favorite comedy movies of all time. Theres so much gold here that just grows every time you watch it
You wouldn't think that a movie with this much star power behind would tank, but it did. I've always liked it though. The campiness of it makes it a fun watch. Another lesser known but equally campy murder mystery is "Once Upon a Crime" (1992). It has a great ensemble cast like this movie, including John Candy, James Belushi, Sean Young, the late Richard Lewis (just passed away), Cybill Sheppard and George Hamilton. It's mostly forgotten, but very fun to watch.
I love watching Simone trying to finish a sentence, it's adorable.
As soon as Simone did that intro my mind reminded me that I needed to teach my dog to "Sit Boy".
dunno why im so mad at myself to know what it was immediately
I'm so happy Simone laughed uncontrollably at the singing telegram shooting scene. When I was a kid I used to watch this movie often and it always made me cackle like a damn bastard.
For me, the best thing about this film is that, knowing how it ends, if you re-watch the film, you can see how every theory could be real, due to which character was where in each scene.
There are a couple of mistakes though. When Boddy turns the lights out the room they are in contains a fireplace that is shown to have a fire going in it so even without the power there should have been enough light that someone would have seen who hit Boddy. Then in the scene where the motorist is killed he is shown standing in front of a mirror while he is on the phone. You can clearly see the fireplace that acts as the secret passage entrance in the reflection of the mirror so no one should have been able to sneak up from behind him. Finally when have you ever seen two women carry purses with nothing in them? Both Scarlett and Peacock show their purses to not only not have the gun in them in the versions where the other one does all the killing but they show their purse to not have anything at all in them.
John Morris wrote the music for many of Mel Brooks' comedies, including _Young Frankenstein,_ and his score for _Clue_ is an absolute delight.
Simone: "Look at that castle"
Me: "Castles don't have phones!" 😉
There's a light....
There's a light.... 😅
My parents have always joked that with me being raised watching this movie and Airplane occasionally, I never had a chance to have anything but a twisted, good sense of humor.
Murder By Death is fun too.
I don't think I have ever seen someone react to Murder By Death. Even if they did, they wouldn't get half the references or even know who the characters were lampooning.
@@mgass1354 Yeah, that's the problem. They'd have to react to Maltese Falcon, Thin Man movies, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan and Hercule Poirot movies first!
@@rcrawford42when I recommend it I always tell them to watch at least *one* of the movies for each detective before watching Murder By Death so they understand the characters being parodied.
You saved me having to type that. I love that film!
@@rcrawford42I have to respectfully disagree! When I first saw it as a teen in the 80s I had no idea they were lampooning anything. It really didn't occur to me until later but I still loved the movie just on the strength of the performances and the incredible writing. Being familiar with the original sources just adds to the fun, but that movie can still stand on its own!
This might be my favorite reaction you two have ever done! The sheer joy had me smiling from ear-to-ear.😂
Also, from here on out, anytime someone says "long story short", you have to reply with, "too late". It's an unwritten rule.
This is one of those movies that I have to feel out a person before recommending it to them. The humor is so specific and I know it's not everyone's jam, but I love it so much. I don't know if either of you have ever seen the TV show Psych, but they do a lot of homage episodes and Clue was one of my favorites.
Just recommend it to everyone. If it's not someone's jam, you don't need them around anyway.
The singing telegram girl was played by Jane Wiedin, guitar player for The Go-Go's
Mr. Green is Michael McKean. He was David St. Hubbins (the lead singer) in "This is spinal Tap". He was also the highway patrol officer that pulled Steve Martin and John Candy over in "Planes, trains, and automobiles." He's quite well known in comedy, he has worked as a writer on SNL.
He also plays the neighbor in the Brady Bunch movie. If you haven't given that a watch yet I'd recommend it. It's groovy! 😂
He was also in Laverne & Shirley, was Perry White in Smallville and is married to Annette O'Toole.
I dunno how well the Brady Bunch movie would hold up for younger people these days. It's meta as hell, but I doubt a lot know anything about The Brady Bunch outside of the name
@@EidlonesIt was a 90's revival of a 60s(70s?) show already... I enjoy the hell out of those movies and only barely know about the old show. The appeal for younger reactors would be in the cast (McKean, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor) and the satirical humor.
@LordVolkov The old shows were shown on various channels at the time though. Like, I used to watch stuff like I Dream Of Jeannie all the time as a kid in the 90's. At the very least it was still available to be seen and stumbled upon, whereas now, unless you actively seek it out, you aren't going to see a frame.
@@dupersuper1938yes, he was Lenny of the BFF duo Lenny & Squiggy
There is a similar mystery/comedy movie from the 70s called "Murder By Death"
Simone hitting me with an InuYasha reference right out of the gate? Did not expect that.
Watching George's face as Simone is telling her shower curtain story was as funny as the movie. I was dying laughing! lol
Inuyasha! (Currently rewatching) AND Clue in the same vid?! Nice 😎
Love the reaction and channel - thanks Simone and George 🙏
Me and my sister loved this movie as kids. We would quote the singing telegram scene often.
I remember Eileen Brennan from a Tales from the Crypt episode, she was ruthless mob boss who had John Stamos as a boy toy. Madeline Khan from Blazin' Saddles. Martin Mull as Leon from Roseanne. Micheal McKean from Laverne and Shirley and the Brady Bunch Movie from 1995.
There was a deleted 4th ending that was filmed but not released in theaters that can be read in the official novelization. Wadsworth reveals himself to be Mr. Boddy, like the third ending, and also reveals that the Cognac *was* poisoned, which weakens the entire party from chasing him and manages to fight off the police chief and escapes... but not without realizing the dogs, somehow, got into his car and screams can be heard from the camera panning outside the car as an implied vicious mauling takes place. For obvious reasons, it was deleted for being considered too dark and scary compared to the lighthearted comic nature of the film and to secure the PG rating.
Wow, he really thought he could escape? I guess he didn’t expect to be so _doggedly_ pursued for his crimes.
@@0okamino That pun was awful, but I might be barking up the wrong tree pointing it out to you.
@@chriswhinery925Oh, I should have known I would be hounded over it.
@@0okaminoAnd rightly so. That joke really screwed the pooch.
Good one! 😂😂😂 @@0okamino
Mr. Boddy is played by Lee Ving who is also the lead singer of the great punk rock band FEAR!
I love Clue. I watch this movie 10 times a year
It's gotta be one of the most rewatchable movies ever.
This has been my favorite movie since I was a kid, I used to watch it every day. Can still quote most of it. I also love how once you know the endings, you can go back to see how it works, and people are missing from the right scenes to make all the endings make sense
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but most recently Michael McKean (Mr. Green) played Sargent Shadwell in Good Omens
Fun Fact: Mr. body is played by punk legend and front man of FEAR, the band that got banned from SNL, Lee Ving.
3:10 This actor, Christopher Lloyd, was in _Back to the Future_ the same year _this_ movie came out, but he looks _so_ much younger, here
I absolutely adore this movie! I’ve watched it tons after playing Colonel Mustard in my school play
Last year our fall play was clue. I watched the movie and other high school productions about a thousand times that summer in anticipation. I got Wadsworth. It was so worth it. I was obsessed and it paid off
Can we talk about how the dog poop bit at the beginning is foreshadowing? Everyone has their "whats that smell? Is it me?" - moment when they walk through the door. But we saw Tim Curry step in it. We know that he's the one "who done it".
This movie is one of my absolute favourites
the cook was played by Kellye Nakahara. She also played Nurse Kelly on MASH.
This is one of those seriously underrated comedies like Quick Change.
This is such a fun movie. I envy you being able to experience this wonderful movie for the first time. So many great performances, so much fun, snappy dialogue.
Another movie with the same kind of fast-moving dialogue and things getting confused that's lots of fun but few have seen (and that also has Tim Curry in it) is the Sylvester Stallone comedy "Oscar". You should check it out.
It’s a dead heat as to which movie I’ve seen more in my 46-years on Earth: Clue, or Aliens. Never change the channel when either came on, would put them on to have background noise when doing housework, and honestly have probably seen each approaching 1000 times.
I've definitely watched clue more, but that's because aliens mostly only comes on at night... mostly.
@@dannykent6190 😂
I first saw this movie on VHS when my friends and I got it by pure random chance as part of a 2-for-1 weekend deal. We completely ignored the other film we got and watched this about 3 times that weekend. Amazing performances, amazing writing, just a great, great movie all round. It's one that I use a lot when people ask for recommendatsion, because pretty much everyone likes it.