This will be a pretty short review. I was looking forward to CRITIC’S CHOICE since it’s a Bob Hope movie I’d never seen, and I’m a big Bob Hope fan. He plays an acerbic theater critic in New York. Lucille Ball is his wife, who decides to write a play of her own. John Dehner is a producer friend of theirs who decides to put the play on Broadway. Rip Torn is the womanizing director. Jim Backus is the psychiatrist neighbor of Hope and Ball. Richard Deacon is a rival theater critic.
Other than a few—very few—slightly amusing moments, this is a terrible movie.
Why hire Bob Hope and then give him a dreary, depressing script that never lets
him be Bob Hope? He and Ball are both miscast. Nobody in the movie is very
likable, except for a couple of kid actors. I’d just as soon have continued to
miss this one. I don’t like to write bad reviews, but this was just a big
disappointment.
2 comments:
Hope for some reason made almost nothing but terrible movies in the '60s. I suspect he was feeling serious burnout.
Well, I can understand not wanting to write a bad review, but you weren't unfair. Personally, I find it useful to know what to skip, so thank you.
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