Great Movie....Great Price!!!
Added 1/9/2009
This product was just as described and a much better bargain than buying it at the store.
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Best Martin/Reiner collaboration
Added 11/25/2008
I love Carl Reiner's sense of humor. He helped create some of the very best comedy of the fifties and sixties working with Sid Caesar as actor and writer and then creating a television show about that experience- The Dick Van Dyke Show. Not to mention his work with Mel Brooks in improvised comedy albums. His humor was cutting edge for it's time.
Then he met a comedian, Steve Martin, with a new kind of self-referencial comedy that not everyone "got" right away. The result was a wonderful comedy film called "The Jerk," which was done in a style no one had seen before. Others followed like "Man with Two Brains," which I love,and "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," which is loved mostly by old movie buffs for it's very inside humor.
But their best is this film, "All of Me." The idea of teaming Martin with another comic genius, Lily Tomlin, is truly inspired. Reiner asks these performers to do some amazing things with this script, and helps them truly pull it off. Only someone used to working with the likes of Sid Caesar would think that asking so much of an actor was even reasonable. Watch the scene where Steve Martin discovers that the spirit of Tomlin's character has taken over half of his body on a public sidewalk. It's absolutely incredible.
I don't want to give anything away about this film, so I'll just say,if you have ever liked Steve Martin or Lily Tomlin in anything you must see this film. It's the perfect collaboration of a brilliant comedy writer/director and two brilliant performers.
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A great comedy
Added 11/21/2008
You've got to love both stars of this crazy, wacky movie. A rare comedy that is funny all the way through to the great ending.
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All Of Me
Added 11/3/2008
I love this movie! An older film with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin, but very enjoyable. A woman dies and leaves her soul to a woman who turns out to be a fake..so Steve has to find a way to cope with Lily getting put into him and getting her in the body of the deceitfil woman.
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great idea and good execution.
Added 6/8/2008
The theme of this comedy is basically similar to that in the escapist car chase comedy "Thelma and Louise". We have a single women this time, instead of a duo, who has missed out on nearly all the fun things in life, despite being rich in money. Thus, she hires a transcendentalist, while she lays dying, to transfer her soul into the body of a young healthy beautiful woman who hopefully will experience many of the joys she missed. Unfortunately, the soul transfer process goes wrong and she ends up dominating one side of Steve Martin's brain. You can imagine the comedic potential of this situation.
In the case of "Thelma and Louise", we have a potentially much more realistic situation, with the bored women getting their kicks over a few days before disappearing over a cliff. In the present film, the comedic potential is greater, with Lily Tomlin's character having fun making Martin's character look like a fool, then finally making amends as she is transferred to the body of his girlfriend.(Apparently, her soul can dominate only half a man's brain, but all of a women's brain). Actually, the film could have been a lot funnier if she had been transferred to the bodies of several more men, including Martin's law firm boss. The first part of the film could have been largely dispensed with, as things didn't get interesting until after the soul transfer process. The last scene,in which Martin and Tomlin get into a crazy improvised dance routine and eventually end up together on the floor, is also great.
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Great Movie....Great Price!!!
Added 1/9/2009
This product was just as described and a much better bargain than buying it at the store.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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Best Martin/Reiner collaboration
Added 11/25/2008
I love Carl Reiner's sense of humor. He helped create some of the very best comedy of the fifties and sixties working with Sid Caesar as actor and writer and then creating a television show about that experience- The Dick Van Dyke Show. Not to mention his work with Mel Brooks in improvised comedy albums. His humor was cutting edge for it's time.
Then he met a comedian, Steve Martin, with a new kind of self-referencial comedy that not everyone "got" right away. The result was a wonderful comedy film called "The Jerk," which was done in a style no one had seen before. Others followed like "Man with Two Brains," which I love,and "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," which is loved mostly by old movie buffs for it's very inside humor.
But their best is this film, "All of Me." The idea of teaming Martin with another comic genius, Lily Tomlin, is truly inspired. Reiner asks these performers to do some amazing things with this script, and helps them truly pull it off. Only someone used to working with the likes of Sid Caesar would think that asking so much of an actor was even reasonable. Watch the scene where Steve Martin discovers that the spirit of Tomlin's character has taken over half of his body on a public sidewalk. It's absolutely incredible.
I don't want to give anything away about this film, so I'll just say,if you have ever liked Steve Martin or Lily Tomlin in anything you must see this film. It's the perfect collaboration of a brilliant comedy writer/director and two brilliant performers.
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A great comedy
Added 11/21/2008
You've got to love both stars of this crazy, wacky movie. A rare comedy that is funny all the way through to the great ending.
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