Rip Torn: A True Comedic Genius

Rating: 5/10 (19 June 2004)

Admittedly, Rip Torn was the main reason I was looking forward to this "Movie", and after it was over my anticipation was vindicated. If only this "Movie" were about his Character "Patches O'Houlihan" then it would deserve its seemingly large success. But this is not the case. This movies suffers from what I call 'Neuvo-crap' syndrome, i.e. all "comedies" today are clichés of clichés of crap. You know the ending before it happens, hell, you even know most of the jokes and the dialog seems to have been written as a prequel to most of the comedies recently past. I know Hollywood ran out of ideas around the mid-Nineties and had to look to its successful past to get "new" ideas for the future, and it seems lately its a free-for-all on the old original stories, repackaged for an unassuming public....but the saddest fact of all isn't that most of the viewing public is ignorant to this fraud, it's the fact that they resign themselves to that fate by not investigating older movies and truly comedic films that deserve their money and attention.