I loved that script a lot. Supposedly it's predictable (double identities, love story, from zero to hero, you can con them some time but not all the time, then happy end, the good wins), however it managed to find a creative way to do everything. Many moments are priceless; the one in the fancy restaurant's bathroom, the president Bush con, and the last romantic con also. The way how they got rid of the bad guy was intelligent, hilarious and so cinematic. And by the way, after one year, see how another movie about another conman, (The Distinguished Gentleman - 1992), would use the same trick of disguising like bug-killers, having the desk of some supervisor for a while, to pull a scheme on powerful bad guys!
Dana Carvey is a handsome gifted comedian, who could have hit it big in Hollywood, so what did happen? Comparing this movie to his later one (The Master of Disguise), 12 years later, is as comparing Chaplin's (City Lights) to (Countess From Hong Kong)! In just one decade, Carvey, who according to (Opportunity..) could have been cast in comedies and romantic comedies, turned from Opportunity Knocks to Opportunity Knocked for six! Certainly, big part of the answer lies in the script's power. Notice well how, here, the script utilizes Carvey's famous routine of SNL as Bush so cleverly, while in (The Master..) the whole matter shrinks into detached silly impersonations, with nothing else!
Julia Campbell had a magical, innocent, presence. She was a gift from the magical innocent 1980s itself. Where did she go either? Robert Loggia is a name that makes me happy whenever I read it on any opening credits. Review the movie's elements; cinematography, editing, music,.. etc. It's smooth, cute and smart. The feel good movies of the 1980s were the nicest. Still the thing I love the most is how this one has its own, so wicked, theories where all the advertisement's men are originally conmen or must be, all the rock music is about shouting anyway, and - my favorite - all the great decisions in life we take in the bathroom. How true!
PS: This is my review number 900. I Hope to find love, someday soon.
Dana Carvey is a handsome gifted comedian, who could have hit it big in Hollywood, so what did happen? Comparing this movie to his later one (The Master of Disguise), 12 years later, is as comparing Chaplin's (City Lights) to (Countess From Hong Kong)! In just one decade, Carvey, who according to (Opportunity..) could have been cast in comedies and romantic comedies, turned from Opportunity Knocks to Opportunity Knocked for six! Certainly, big part of the answer lies in the script's power. Notice well how, here, the script utilizes Carvey's famous routine of SNL as Bush so cleverly, while in (The Master..) the whole matter shrinks into detached silly impersonations, with nothing else!
Julia Campbell had a magical, innocent, presence. She was a gift from the magical innocent 1980s itself. Where did she go either? Robert Loggia is a name that makes me happy whenever I read it on any opening credits. Review the movie's elements; cinematography, editing, music,.. etc. It's smooth, cute and smart. The feel good movies of the 1980s were the nicest. Still the thing I love the most is how this one has its own, so wicked, theories where all the advertisement's men are originally conmen or must be, all the rock music is about shouting anyway, and - my favorite - all the great decisions in life we take in the bathroom. How true!
PS: This is my review number 900. I Hope to find love, someday soon.