Hilarious

It's a decent send-up of old film-noir movies. I thought they overdid implementing old footage. They used so much that they had to write the rest of the movie's plot around it and it suffered for it. Steve Martin is good in it though and has some really funny one-liners. Besides those one-liners it will be an overall forgettable movie.

Martin is hilarious. Ingeniously interspliced with clips from old Warner Bros. films. Features Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Alan Ladd, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, and others. Its only flaw is that the joke loses momentum by the end of the film.

The idea is decent, but I could never shake the feeling that it could have been much funnier. Would have been better if I'd seen the original movies that were spliced into it.

Stylish, but forgettable comedy.

Interesting idea.

fumbles over it's own ambition in a desperate attempt to make the clips from other movies fit in, searching for the right script and story, but ends up feeling more like a scrapbook with pieces of magazine pasted in rather absent mindedly than a carefully crafted jigsaw puzzle. there's one or two decent jokes in here, but even those provide little in way of entertainment.

Good Movie

Stupid, but I got a couple of yucks occasionally. It is Steve Martin when he was actually funny afterall

randomly funny

A cute film made of half original stuff and half clips taken out of context from classic film noir. It's fun to watch, and has a lot of silly puns (his drinking problem, for example).

Interestingly, this was made several years before Steve Martin visibly stopped giving a damn about movies.

Pretty bad experiment.

I barely remember watching this and dont think I watched until the end.