Funny About Love
Picture: B- Sound:
B- Extras: D Film: D
In the review for Crazy People on this site, I went on
about how the merger between the 80’s and 90’s produced some real junk, and
another unfunny film that felt into 1990 like an anvil from the sky was Funny About Love starring Gene Wilder
and Christine Lahti. While Crazy People at least had some promise
this one pretty much never even gets started, which means if you make it past
the 30-minute mark you have succeeded quite a feat.
In order to give a general
idea of the plot of this film, you pretty much have to reveal a lot, despite
having so little of it. Some of the
best films take the shortest amount of time to explain, but usually the worst
ones are impossible to explain. Duffy
Bergman (Wilder) is a cartoonist and a successful one at that. He ends up marrying a great gourmet chef
(Lahti) and are happy until they find out that they are not able to have
children, or at least it seems so. Once
this happens they begin drifting apart as she becomes more involved in her
career. They eventually split and where
the film really takes a turn for the bizarre is when he ends up with members of
the Delta Gamma sorority by some odd chance and finds that he could have a
relationship there, or try to go back to the one he had. It’s a toss up between a committed
relationship or the ‘dream’ relationship.
Paramount was responsible
for this film as with Crazy People
and both receives similar treatment with the DVD. The film is presented in 5.1 Dolby Digital sound and 1.85 X 1
anamorphic widescreen. Nothing overly
impressive here in either category, which is acceptable on something of this
lower caliber. There are no extras as
well and one way to sum of the rating of the film is probably to say its about
as funny as Mr. Spock. Leonard Nimoy
happens to be the director behind this disaster, which will hopefully not live
long or prosper. Originally, Farrah
Fawcett was prominently featured in the film, in what was more or less a major
love interest for Wilder’s character.
She was cut out at the last minute, explaining why this film is so
choppy. Nimoy found out about all this
through members of the press, not the studio, and his directing career never
recovered.
- Nate Goss
