Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David J. Cohen '86 was even more clueless when he received an envelope with a University of Miami t-shirt and two 8 x 10 pictures of orchids inside. "I realized it wasn't for me," Cohen says. "If my friends played a trick on me, it would be funnier--a dead animal and condiments...
...THEIR PART, the two actors portray the husbands to look, accurately, like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. In one of the movie's funnier scenes--the proverbial railroad station scene--the husbands cross paths en route to a train and realize they are wearing matching punctuation mark sweaters. Philippe's sweater has an exclamation point on it, which defines him perfectly as he rants and raves through the movie as a know-nothing know-it-all. Vincent's sweater, however, bears a question mark because his ranting and raving springs from his utter cluelessness. What a pair...
...Candy's performance in his first feature film is only slightly funnier than Jason Robards' starring performance in The Day After. Actually, the script of Summer Rental has more to do with this movie's quality than Candy's performance does, and one feels sorry for the rotund actor who tries admirably, but can't save this sagging film...
...Even funnier is the way every character in 1955 America thinks that Marty's orange down vest is a life preserver and presumes that he is some kind of sailor. It gets to be a running joke in the movie and doesn't lose its humor even by the fourth time the joke is made...
Unfortunately, the film itself, though it features some of the funnier lines of the year, does not rate as highly as many of the performances. Prizzi's Honor is one of the best films of 1985, but this is only because there haven't been many good movies released this year. The acting is top-notch, despite some flawed Italian accents, but the movie is too long and too complicated for it to be considered a great...