Ahhh Jeff nooooooooo - this was pretty bad (but your hair in this was worse) and Rowan? You weren't cut out to play a bastardly sort; and where I admit I had a few giggles nothing could help me recover from Jeff's bad hair - and the rollicking sex scene with Emma Thompson - was just ..weird. The "Elephant!" man musical was amusing though. I had never heard of this movie nearly 20 years old now and I'm both a Goldblum and Rowan Atkinson fan. I think they must have tried to buy up all the copies of this so nobody would ever see it - hahhaa Nahhhhh I've seen worse movies - but it sure wasn't good.
The gimmicky casting of Jeff Goldblum in an otherwise run-of-the-mill british sex comedy is the main reason that this is at all memorable. There are some amusing "Springtime For Hitler"esque moments, and Rowan Atkinson is far funnier sending himself up as an obnoxious, egotistical comedian than doing his usual bumbling slapstick schtick. The rest is purely by the numbers however.
Slight comedy, but there's one bit in it that I always remember/quote about relationships. Emma knows Jeff is cheating on her because at a party, this girl casually hands Jeff a drink and he takes it without acknowledgement. Her point is that you can see intimacy in the familiarity of gestures. An observation that I really like. Other than than, an unremarkable but pleasant comedy.
Not as good as it should have been, but it has its moments and features excerpts from the single worst concept for a musical ever (yes, that includes "Springtime For Hitler").
I stopped watching this in the middle in spite of the good cast. I think it was when Emma Thompson's character began complaining her name was Lemon, and that it could have been worse -- Hitler or Tampon. That grossed me out, and I regret passing it on.
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