Noises Off...
Peter Bogdanovich
1992
I'd been resisting Noises Off... for years, simply because I'm persnickety when it comes to comedies, and there is really no movie in the world worse than a bad comedy.
Well, I liked this one a lot. Though basically plotless, it tracks the journey of the play Nothing On from the final dress rehearsal to its opening day on Broadway. The frazzled director, Lloyd Fellowes (Michael Caine), has no faith in his cast, whose members require constant coddling and reassurance. Behind the scenes in-fighting, the result of petty jealousy, misunderstandings, and simple acts of mischief, threatens to sink the play almost nightly. The able and talented cast, featuring Carol Burnett, John Ritter, Christopher Reeve, Marilu Henner, Denholm Elliott, and Nicollette Sheridan (who spends half her time in her underwear - can't be bad) are more than capable of executing the highly choreographed physical comedy that makes up most of the running time. Lots of fun.
(Thanks to Melanie, who brought it over for us to watch.)
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