Colonel Mustard is a client of Miss Scarlet, who is the ex-employer of Yvette, the maid, who had an affair with the husband of Mrs. . The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum works in D. Its an absurdists view with loads of honest laughs. The Sherlock Holmes stories are full of monumental blunders. Track it down any way you can, and prepare to laugh out loud.
One of the best comic castings ever. I think they made too many as it is! Watson,the true brains behind the Holmes cases. Actually, it didn't win anything, but I presume this was only because of some footling technicality. In fact, one lady said to me, why don't they make more like that anymore! Description Clue is a movie about seven guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in a series of murders. Clue is a movie about seven guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in a series of murders. But it is lavishly directed, cleverly written, and magnificently cast.
There are just too many inconsistencies to be fended off and this theory is about as likely to be right as any other. Everything about this film deserves exclamation points! Written by A hysterical spoof of the well known board game Cluedo, known as Clue in America. Not another Sherlock Holmes movie! Moriarty Paul Freeman hatches a fiendish plot to destabilize the British Empire. Unfortunately, nobody else knew about this movie either! You don't need to know who Holmes, Watson, Lestrade and Moriarty are in order to enjoy it. Boddy gives each guest a weapon and tells them to kill butler Wadsworth to avoid being exposed.
Thom Eberhardt's clever revision of Holmesian lore foregoes puns and sight gags for character-based comedy, and a wonderful cast of experienced British thesps plays it with just the right degree of reverence and mockery Caine and Kingsley, in particular, make a formidable comic team. Green's clumsiness, and meet a whole group tangled in a web of murder, lies, and hilarity. But the two men are forced to set aside their differences when Prof. Granted, the teen-agers didn't care for it, but the adults loved it! I got this movie called 'Without a Clue', and that describes what I knew about it. It's the theory I tend to believe. Green's clumsiness, and meet a whole group tangled in a web of murder, lies, and hilarity.
And Michael McKean as Mr. His reputation grows to the point that people wish to meet him. The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum works in D. The cast really does not have any weak spots who are all supported by a very funny script. Boddy gives each guest a weapon and tells them to kill butler Wadsworth to avoid being exposed. Watson Ben Kingsley who had been solving these cases all along, and simply hired bumbling actor Reginald Kincaid Michael Caine to play the fake Sherlock Holmes.
That's why it won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actor. Green- After This Is Spinal Tap, he gives his best performance in Clue. Now go and see it! The stories are sent up without being malicious. The only downer is the different endings use similar script which does get a little tiresome, but apart from that a flawless comedy. I was a theater manager in 1988. The screenplay and Direction solidify its relevence as a first class comedic romp.
I sat and watched it and laughed my butt off! Colonel Mustard is a client of Miss Scarlet, who is the ex-employer of Yvette, the maid, who had an affair with the husband of Mrs. Add a solid supporting cast of wonderful character actors including Paul Freeman as Moriarty and Jeffrey Jones as Lestrade and a very convincing performance from the lovely Lysette Anthony and the film is off to a great start. My theater was in a small town, and everybody knew me, and I told people if you want to see a funny movie that has no sex, really bad words, you have to see this movie! When I put the thing together, and saw the beginning, I thought oh, no! How does this get us around all the inconsistencies that have puzzled Sherlock aficionados over the past century? In order to continue his medical practice without repurcussion Crime Solving is shunned upon for a respected professional Watson invents a character named Holmes. John Landis at his mid eighties best. I never saw a preview, I had no one sheet poster for it.
With the teaming of these two screen greats the chemistry is electric. To be frank, it doesn't. Ben Kinsley shines as Dr. The premise is so clever. Sherlock Holmes never really existed. However, the script - by Gary Murphy and Larry Strawther - is entirely faithful to the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation: Despite Holmes' incompetence and Watson's escalating outrage, the central mystery is genuinely skillful and engrossing, the clues are delightfully outlandish, and the Victorian atmosphere is conveyed with elegant simplicity, thanks to stylish art direction by Brian Ackland-Snow and costume design by Judy Moorcroft. Any fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show will simply adore his performance in this film.
To those who are hard-core Holmes fans, this film will be cherished. Its the finest parody of the Holmes Mythos ever set to screen. John Watson Ben Kingsley to play a character whose adventures are dramatized by Watson and published in a popular weekly magazine. Its a shame this film is not better appreciated. Kincaid is a drunken,out of work actor hired by Watson to play Holmes. At least it's funnier than any of its rivals. Watson's famous war wound, which moves about from limb to limb, is among the least of them.
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