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Madhouse
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John Larroquette, Kirstie Alley, Alison LaPlace
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Directed by:
Tom Ropelewski
Written by:
Tom Ropelewski
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1990 |
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COMEDY
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In the tradition of The Money Pit: a yuppie nightmare, about a Los Angeles couple (Kirstie Alley and John Larroquette) whose home life is destroyed by houseguests, the most horrific of whom bears an uncanny resemblance to Ruby Wax. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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I laughed a few times and the leading actors perform well, but the level of comic ingenuity is not high. The underlying philosophy seems to be that watching a cat vomit twice is twice as funny as seeing it vomit once.
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MIXED | | | | | “Merely pleasant. On a few occasions it's very funny, but it never quite goes over the top and gets the big laughs it is obviously aiming for. It's more of an in-flight movie, or something to look at on cable. Even the 90-minute running time is a giveaway; this one has already been trimmed to fit into its time slot.” | | (Roger Ebert) | | | |
ANTI | | | | | “This movie is an example of what can happen when good actors agree to star in a movie without reading the script first. Kirstie Alley and John Larroquette were great on Cheers and Night Court, respectively, but with an awful script, even two great sitcom stars can't carry a comedy movie.” | | (Andrew Hicks, MOVIE CRITIC AT LARGE) | | | | “Madhouse is excruciating fluff for moviegoing masochists. It's what bad cinephiles can expect in the cineplexes of hell. No, it's probably already on video there... This sub-onerous piffle is the work of a moviemaking couple - producer Leslie Dixon and writer-director Tom Ropelewski - who were coming to terms with their own experiences. Recycled jokes (’We're not insane, we're from New Joisy’), stale sentiments (’The only thing that matters is us’) and the most tiresome of characters leave us well-nigh comatose.” | | (Rita Kempley, WASHINGTON POST) | | | | “Like three very bad sitcoms back to back.” | | (Rose) | | | | “Remarkably unfunny... directed with a heavy hand.” | | (Halliwell) | | |
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