Review of What's Up, Doc? (1972) by Michael T — 29 Mar 2015
I originally saw this on television at my aunt and uncle's Kits townhouse in the mid-1970s. It probably was the film's television debut. Everyone else was downstairs at a party and I was enjoying cable-vision.
I recall laughing my head off. Some of the jokes (that were not edited for television) probably went over my head (I was 9 or 10) but there were lots of slapstick gags, destruction of hotel suites, a car chase through San Fransisco, and a reference to Warner Brother's Bug Bunny cartoons.
It was just as fun as an adult to watch free-spirit Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand) turn straight-laced professor Howard Bannister's (Ryan O'Neal's) life upside down. Peter Bogdanovitch wanted to make an updated 1930s screwball comedy in the 1970s and succeeded.
Look for the late Madeline Kahn's debut appearance and a reference to Love Story in a throwaway gag.
This review of What's Up, Doc? (1972) was written by Michael T on 29 Mar 2015.
What's Up, Doc? has generally received very positive reviews.
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