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Release Date: 22 May, 2001 Retail Price: $9.95 OUR Price: $9.95 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
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Practically Timeless
This movie is great on several levels. Walter Matthau and his buddy are married to incredible babes, but are actively chasing skirts. With his buddy giving him advice and examples, Matthau gets closer and closer to straying.
The examples are acted out by well known celebrities like Lucille Ball, Art Carney, Jack Benny and Jayne Mansfield. It seems that Gene Kelly, who directed, was able to attract a lot of people to this project. It is done with superb wit and was quite risque for it's time. Some of the wife cheating ploys are dated with today's technology, but the overall message still resonates.
Great fun
I can watch this movie a lot without ever getting tired of it. It has a great talented young cast and they all shine. I especially like the under-rated and underappreciated Timothy Olyphant "why isn't this guy a big star already ???" as a drug dealer. He steals the show every time he's on screen "which isn't enough" and it makes me wish he was in it more. He also has good chemestry with Katie "I Love Tom Cruise" Holmes in their small scenes together.
Desmond Askew is also great fun as a naive foreighner and his trip to Las Vegas with his friends is one of my favorite scenes in any movie. I mean you have great comedy and a very fun car chase on top of it. Askew gets him and his friends in trouble after he shoots a bouncher in the arm after he gets in trouble for touching a stripper. Taye Diggs shines as one of the friends who likes to brag about being a tantra expert. While Breckin Meyer is also funny as a white kid who claims he's half black.
I love the movie but I'm not as crazy about the Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf scenes. They play two actors who have no choice but to help a strange bi-curious cop "well played by William Fichtner" bust drug dealers. The parts with them are funny but the fact that it follows the fun Las Vegas part makes it seem pretty tame. They aren't as fun as Timothy Olyphant, Desmond Askew or Taye Diggs either. Once Mohr and Wolf aren't with the entertaining Fichtner anymore I almost wished they'd just go away. This is still a fun movie with a lot of young stars giving their best performances ever. Plus it makes me wish Doug Liman would make a movie bringing this cast back together. That's how much I loved it. I also wish Doug Liman could make a movie every week if it was possible lol.
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