This film is all about folks who destroy buildings for a living...an odd topic for a movie, I know. Anyway, one is considered a jinx and the other a guy who tries his best to help him along...
Despite some good actors (Richard Arlen and Chester Morris), I cannot recommend you see "Wrecking Crew" because it's an amazingly badly written film with so many clichés and so many predictable plot points...so many that the movie is laughable at times! For instance, when a guy is having a christening for his new son and he realizes that he forgot to find a godfather...you KNOW that means dad will soon be assuming room temperature. And, when there is a girl that comes into the picture, you know the two leading men will have a falling out over her. And then there's the guy who used to be a major league pitching prospect and after he's had arm surgery and has been told NOT to use his arm--lest he damage it and make it impossible to repair, you KNOW what's coming next! Again and again and again, the film is easy to predict because you know what's coming next had the film been written by a hack!
Worth seeing only as an example to a would-be writer of how NOT to write. A reasonably well made film completely undone by having a lemur doing the writing!!
By the way, although the film was so, so predictable, one thing that surprised me was the casting of Joe Sawyer. He almost always plays the loudmouth jerk...and there was one in the film...but NOT Sawyer! Instead, unusually, he played a really nice guy! Fans of old movies will probably recognize this and be as surprised as I was!
Despite some good actors (Richard Arlen and Chester Morris), I cannot recommend you see "Wrecking Crew" because it's an amazingly badly written film with so many clichés and so many predictable plot points...so many that the movie is laughable at times! For instance, when a guy is having a christening for his new son and he realizes that he forgot to find a godfather...you KNOW that means dad will soon be assuming room temperature. And, when there is a girl that comes into the picture, you know the two leading men will have a falling out over her. And then there's the guy who used to be a major league pitching prospect and after he's had arm surgery and has been told NOT to use his arm--lest he damage it and make it impossible to repair, you KNOW what's coming next! Again and again and again, the film is easy to predict because you know what's coming next had the film been written by a hack!
Worth seeing only as an example to a would-be writer of how NOT to write. A reasonably well made film completely undone by having a lemur doing the writing!!
By the way, although the film was so, so predictable, one thing that surprised me was the casting of Joe Sawyer. He almost always plays the loudmouth jerk...and there was one in the film...but NOT Sawyer! Instead, unusually, he played a really nice guy! Fans of old movies will probably recognize this and be as surprised as I was!