The World's Greatest Lover

The World's Greatest Lover (1977)

  • 22% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 53% of users liked it
    (582 ratings)

After writing, directing, and starring in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Gene Wilder added the producer's hat to his three-headed beast in The World's Greatest Lover. Wilder plays Rudy Valentine, a Milwaukee baker who enters a talent search in the Hollywood of the… More

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PG,
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Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 18, 1977 Wide
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Austin Kennedy, Sin Magazine

    In a generation that's filled with cynical, ultra-raunchy, dark comedies, this was refreshing to me. There's a certain innocence in this kind of immature humor that I miss from the movies.

  • Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

    A shrill, silly farce that starts out with some funny moments but quickly fizzles and ends up being quite lame.

  • Mark Bourne, DVDJournal.com

    Even those of us with a longtime and well-earned affection for Gene Wilder have to respond to The World's Greatest Lover ... with a dispirited sigh.

  • Steve Crum, Kansas City Kansan

    Misfire by Gene Wilder who finds he is not Mel Brooks after all.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    This really just doesn't work.

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  • AJ V


    I loved this movie, It stars two of my favourite actors, and it's also directed by Wilder. The story is hilarious as are the jokes within it. I highly recommend this movie to fans.

  • Anthony V


    Not Gene Wilder's best.

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