Review of Clue (1985) by Josh M — 09 Jan 2010

Clue really seems like a movie that should be terrible. A movie based on a board game, turned into a goofy whodunit, and marketed with a gimmick involving multiple endings...well, it all reeks of desperation.

And yet, it's such a gleefully funny time at the movies. There's no doubt that the script is due a lot of the credit - there's some spectacular dialogue throughout, and some truly memorable lines and exchanges (my personal favorite will always be Scarlet and Wadsworth arguing over the number of bullets).

But it's also due in large part to a spectacular cast that's clearly having a lot of fun with it all. I mean, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Tim Curry...on and on.

Yeah, the movie sounds like a cheap ploy for tickets, but it's one of those movies that everyone involved decided to have a good time with, and the sheer fun of it all is definitely infectious. It made for a great midnight movie, and I was pleasantly surprised that the print the Belcourt showed had all three endings - as much as I was kind of curious to see a cut with only one, each ending has too much fun to only see one.