CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

manchester_england2004 CLUE is the only film that's based on a board game ever to be made. With this unusual concept in mind, you won't be sure of what to expect when seeing this film for the first time. I know I wasn't. But I do know that after seeing it for the first time, I would see it many more times over the years to come. And that's precisely what happened.The film plays out much like a stage farce in the sense that it's mostly on one set, with a simple concept that develops into something much more complex, with the characters losing control of the initial situation they find themselves in. Six people are invited to dinner at a manor house by an eccentric millionaire. When they arrive, they find things are not what they seem, especially the absence of their host. But it soon becomes apparent why they are there and a murder is committed. To say anything more would be to give too much away, suffice to say that the six people are based on the six suspects in the CLUE board game (Scarlett, Mustard, Green, White, Plum and Peacock). For anyone who's seen MURDER BY DEATH, this film is very similar in terms of plot and there are similarities in how it unfolds too.It's mainly the actors who make this film great and hold it together. Tim Curry is simply spellbinding as Wadsworth the butler. As far as I'm concerned, this is Curry at his best. I was honestly gripped by disbelief when I learned that his part was originally written for Leonard Rossiter. Great as though Rossiter was, this fast-paced running around farce-style comedy is really not his style. So I really don't think the film would have worked with him playing Wadsworth. It would have been a very different film that's for sure.So this is really Tim Curry's film and I always saw it that way right from the moment of the first viewing when I was 14. But as the years have gone on, I've come to appreciate the other actors more. Madeline Kahn is probably the best as Mrs White, who improvises her dialogue in a key scene towards the end of the film. The other actors all have fun with their roles, and Martin Mull's many exchanges with the others provide some of the finest and funniest moments in the film.Aside from the very spirited performances of the cast, one of the most enjoyable aspects of the film are the very funny one-liners. And it's hilarious watching the characters try to handle the many new situations they are thrown into as the film goes on. It's very much like a stage farce as I've said before. But since it's so difficult to translate this humour to the big screen, complete with the single set, then it's all the more reason for Jonathan Lynn and John Landis to be congratulated for pulling it off.The film also boasts a great soundtrack and the inclusion of some 1950s songs, particularly Shake, Rattle and Roll and Sh-boom, was a great choice. I for one prefer the use of Shake, Rattle and Roll for the end theme rather than the one originally intended.Overall, CLUE is a great farce-like film that boasts some great acting performances, a fast pace, lots of surprises and plenty of memorable one-liners. It's one of my all-time favourite comedies.

BasementBanter.com Read More: http://basementbanter.com/the-funniest-board-game-you'll-ever-watch/Hello world, my name is AManNamedSue. I am going to be the movie man for basementbanter, giving you people reviews of new movies, and recommendations of some of my favorites. I love horror movies so I will be giving you guys a healthy dose of horror recommendations, but I will constantly mix it up and will suggest a few movies a week. While I am a film student don't expect random art-house movies that no one actually gives a sh*t about popping up here. Raiders of the lost Ark, Wolf of Wall Street and The Exorcist are some of my favorite movies, so except guns, girls, laughs and scares from my recommendations. With that being said, I will try and recommend movies not everyone has seen that I think most people will enjoy. Without further ado here is my first recommendation:Clue (1985): You remember that murder mystery board game that you probably used to play with your family back in the day? Yeah they made a movie out of that, and unlike Battleship with Rihanna it wasn't a complete croc of sh*t. In fact it is f**king hysterical. From the slutty maid showing all of the cleavage, to the very clearly closeted homosexual Mr. Green all of the characters impress with quick, funny, razor sharp dialogue.However, the real scene stealer is Tim Curry (of IT and Rocky Horror Picture Show fame) as Wadsworth the butler. He is funny in every single scene he is in especially his frantic speech summing everything up at the end. He is classy, clever and hysterical. It's a comedy with the setting of a classic horror movie, and a mystery like the best thrillers. All while not wasting an opportunity to make a joke.Clue is one of those rare movies that never gets old no matter how many times you watch it. Each time you find yourself laughing at jokes you hadn't noticed before, and new clues that make repeated viewings just as enjoyable as the first. This movie will have you rolling on your ass laughing and trying your hardest to count to 6 (1+1+2+1?).So if you enjoyed comedies like Airplane or Tropic Thunder with clever writing and non-stop jokes from start to finish; or if you just like smiling, happiness, cleavage and having a good time then this is a comedy for you.Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. I will keep the recommendations coming and other movie related articles out daily.

mark.waltz With butler Tim Curry greeting a series of guests coming to a secluded mansion, you know from his first scene (stepping into a pile of dog doo left by some fierce dobermans) that this is going to be a farce of the highest sort. Comparisons to Neil Simon's 1976 masterpiece "Murder By Death" are obvious, especially with the presence of Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock, a senator's wife who has her own share of secrets. Joining her and Curry are Madeline Kahn as a very black widow, Lesley Ann Warren as a prostitute who uses sex for more than just the money she gets from it, Peter Boyle as a perverted scientist, Martin Mull as an aggressive Army colonel, and Michael McKean as a gay FBI employee. Murder takes a while to begin, but the bodies slowly pile up in this locked old dark house where gifts of the lethal weapons are passed out to allegedly knock off Curry who has the only key to let everybody out.There are three endings to this if you want to see them all, and after the second one, I was ready for it to be wrapped up. This isn't as consistently funny as "Murder By Death", and to be honest, I enjoyed the Gene Wilder/Gilda Radner flop comedy "Haunted Honeymoon" slightly more than this. Still, it has many amusing moments. "Mrs. Peacock is a man?" (Slap, slap....), and Curry's energetic performance running all over the house, while Kahn gets some tongue-twisting lines that proves almost 20 years after her sad early death that she remains one of the funniest women in the movies. Hiding her subtle beauty in a Chita Rivera Spider Woman wig, she delivers each line as if she was one of the dobermans devouring the bone that Curry threw at them before stepping into the unseen poop. The three men aren't as funny as the women, with Brennan going overboard delightfully as a matronly woman who is obviously a nervous wreck, and gets more and more frantic. Bit parts of the French accented maid and Asian cook are well cast, and while the film has mainly the house as its set, it is never claustrophobic. Far from a perfect comedy, this is still old fashioned fun with only a touch of modern sexual sensibilities added to give it a non "G" rating.

smegma23 The near-universal public acclaim for Clue is the strongest evidence I've found to date that I am not actually one human among several billion on a planet called Earth, but a lone brain, or computer program, in a laboratory run by an evil scientist, or possibly a very sick teenager.Vox DOT com just published an "ode" by Caroline Framke to the best 30 seconds in Clue, which of course is Madeline Kahn's rhapsody on her hatred of Yvette. "It was also the only improvised moment in the entire movie," Ms. Framke reports. It is also very nearly the only funny thing in the entire movie. Go figure.But Ms. Framke goes on to credit "...writer Jonathan Lynn's quick wordplay and absurdist twists..."Whut. See, I would have said "writer Jonathan Lynn's incessant clunkers and idiotically stilted non-dialog" but that's just me. Seriously, how is this exchange "comedy gold"?: "What are you afraid of, Peacock, a fate worse than death?" / "No, just death, isn't that enough?"Because WHO F***ING TALKS LIKE THAT? Who would offer that set-up line? It's f***ing imbecilic."For Clue, Kahn takes what Lynn later admitted was a two-dimensional character and settles into the role with a detached grace, like a cat stretching on a cushion, barely deigning to acknowledge anyone else's presence." Yes, please, you can praise Madeline Kahn all the day long, as far as I'm concerned; she was a gargantuan talent and I still weep for her loss. But they are all 2-dimensional characters in Clue. They are uniformly uninteresting and unsympathetic. They are terse and suspicious and rude to each other from the start, and not in the amusing way that I'm sure was the author's intent. And the sources of their supposed funniness—Leslie Ann Warren's seeming turpitude, Christopher Lloyd's repugnant lechery, Martin Mull's ... military buffoonery, I guess?— none of them are inherently funny; it would take a skilled satirist to make them work, and Johnathan Lynn seems to me *singularly* unskilled. I am personally, unconsolably affronted by this unpleasant little man having tarnished my otherwise pristine love for Ms. Kahn, Mr. Mull, Michael McKean, and—most fiendishly ill-used—Eileen Brennan.Lynn's script is not sharp; it's pointy-headed. It's not rapid-fire; it's rapid-misfire. It's not even wordplay most of the time; it's word drudgery. Word torture. Cruel and unusual pun-ishment. Worderboarding.*Sigh* No one will find this review "useful" among the pages and pages of paeans proclaiming this "THE GREATEST COMEDY EVER MADE!!!" by people who grew to love it when they were five. I just want to tie all these people down and show them Murder by Death.