Review of See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) by Gareth R — 03 Dec 2007
After reading some fairly brutal reviews - and only remembering the film foggily from my youth - I was all geared up to hate See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Oddly enough, it's really not that bad. The central gag of Wally being blind and Dave being deaf might be duh simple, but it's still enough to keep the audience guessing about who can do what.
There's a lot of ruminating on living with disability - no, seriously - which admittedly jars a little with all the foul language and slapstick. Still, the pratfalls are funny enough and Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor work brilliantly together.
(Particularly the terminally strange Wilder.) Kevin Spacey toils in a bit part as a silly English crook, and Alan North does his Police Squad! schtick as the cop chasing Wally and Dave. The plot is paperthin, as a typical crime caper revolves around a laughably unimportant MacGuffin, but who cares? You came here to see Pryor and Wilder do blind and deaf, and it's funny.
This review of See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) was written by Gareth R on 03 Dec 2007.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil has generally received positive reviews.
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