Comic wizard Bill Murray (CRADLE WILL ROCK, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) teams up with Academy Award(R)-winner Richard Dreyfuss teams up with (Best Actor, 1978, THE GOODBYE GIRL) in an outrageously wild comedy that’s sure to drive you off the deep end! Murray plays Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient who fears everything! After seeking help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss), Bob feels revived. But when the good doctor skips town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows — showing up unexpectedly at the therapist’s lakeside retreat. That’s when the fun really begins! Bob innocently becomes the houseguest who just won’t leave — endearing himself to the other family members … and, in the end, driving the stressed-out shrink absolutely crazy!
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May 11, 2008
#1
I’ve watched the movie 2 times, and I don’t know why, but I found this movie not funny at all. I laughed not once. I smiled not once. There were no “one liners” that seemed humorous. Weak story. I tried to sell it cheap, but I could not. Need I say more?
May 12, 2008
#2
Probably OK.. looks good, arrived in good time, but I cant play it here in Australia on my “regional” DVD player, regards Bob Bain
May 12, 2008
#3
Renting this movie was one of the major video mistakes of my life. It was tedious, slow paced and terribly acted. The humor, if you can call it that, was ridiculous and the actors only made it worse. The movie seemed never ending and I almost couldn’t finish it. Bill Murray was a disappointment and Richard Dreyfuss was an abomination. I am sorry that I ever saw this movie- it is certainly the worst film I have ever seen. What About Bob? Who Cares About Bob?
May 12, 2008
#4
With well over 100 reviews written for this movie, a plot review is probably not needed here. The reason that I couldn’t enjoy this movie very much was that I had too much sympathy for the Richard Dreyfus character. Most of the time “Bob” was annoying to me. It was difficult to see why Dreyfus was the only one that was bothered by him. Nothing about Bob’s personality that endeared him to the doctor’s family was made evident. I think that most kids would have found him goofy, weird, etc., and would have avoided him at all costs.
I think that Bill Murray’s protrayal of Bob was too “broad.” If his actions would have been more subtle (without taking away his “fear of everything”) he could have seemed more normal to others while still driving Richard Dreyfus crazy.
May 12, 2008
#5
Of course the movie deserves 4 stars, however I wish I could say the same for the DVD. What does it take for DVD company to release each DVD enhanced for 16×9 TVs? Nothing!
Recently I bought a SONY BRAVIA 32 INCH display and I have a collection of over 600 Dvds. I learned now about “Enhanced for 16×9 TVs” and how important it is, I did not care about it or even know about it since I own a standard TV, however all my Dvds are Region 1 and in widescreen, I never buy fullscreen Dvds. So I did an inventory on my collection and realized the following:
Out of 600+ Dvds, 42 are NOT enhanced for 16×9 TVs and they really look horrible when I played them on my PC. Anyway, according to my inventory.
THE FOLLOWING MOVIES / COMPANY HAVE FAILED TO PRODUCE ANAMORPHIC OR 16X9 WIDESCREEN and I hope that these company will release them in the near future so that we can enjoy them on our TVs.
MGM:
Runaway Train
Graduate
No Way Out
Prizzi’s Honor
FX
Shallow Grave
Thief
House Of Games
Dead Man Walking
Misery
The Eye Of The Needle
Overboard
PARAMOUNT:
Private Parts
48 Hrs
Coming To America
Primal Fear
The Ghost And The Darkness
Breakdown
UNIVERSAL:
Day Of The Jackal
Psycho (AVAILABLE IN THE RECENT HITCHCOCK’S BOXSET AS ANAMORPHIC)
Vertigo (AVAILABLE IN THE RECENT HITCHCOCK’S BOXSET AS ANAMORPHIC)
The Game
FOX:
Abyss (I WAS SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT MY 2-DISC IS NOT ANAMORPHIC, NOR IS THE LATEST DIGIPACK EDITION)
Raising Arizona
The Edge
Great Expectations
Rising Sun
The Ref
Romancing The Stone
The Jewel Of The Nile
ARTISAN:
House Of The Spirits
The Last Seduction
The Last Emperor
The Eagle Has Landed
Bound
PS: PLEASE ARTISAN, INSTEAD OF RELEASING ‘BASIC INSTINCT’ FOR THE 4TH TIME, WHICH MOST HAVE ALMOST THE SAME SPECIFICATIONS, CONSIDER RELEASING SOME MORE INTERESTING MOVIES WITH PROPER ATTENTION SUCH AS THOSE MENTIONED ABOVE.
TOUCHSTONE / WALT DISNEY:
Ransom
What About Bob?
PS: IT IS A GREAT NEWS THAT TOUCHSTONE ARE RELEASING ‘ENEMY OF THE STATE’, CRIMSON TIDE’ AND ‘CON AIR’ IN EXTENDED UNRATED EDITIONS ON MAY 16. I WISH THOUGH THEY DID THE SAME WITH ‘RANSOM’
WARNER:
91/2 Weeks
Presumed Innocent
NOTE THAT WARNER STUDIO IS RELEASING ONE OF THE BEST 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION SUCH AS ‘SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION’, ‘HEAT’, ‘MALCOLM X’, ‘DOG DAY AFTERNOON’, ‘ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN’ AND MANY MANY MORE.
The reason why they don’t release every DVD in widescreen enhanced for 16×9 is beyond me since soon Widescreen Tvs will replace standard ones.
IT IS A RELIEF THAT AMAZON IS NOW STATING WHETHER THE DVD IS ANAMORPHIC OR LETTERBOXED.