![]() Much like the plot, unfortunately, their presence serves little beyond moving the story forward and stepping aside for Wilder and Pryor to their stuff. Like the movie's star attraction, their pairing is essentially a reprisal of their roles on TV's 'Wiseguy,' where they play a sibling crime team. Her partner is a young Kevin Spacey with a bad British accent. Other than New York's finest pursuing them, lead by a sometimes comical Alan North, the often blundering pair is also hunted by the voluptuous and gorgeous Joan Severance, who Wilder describes as a great pair of legs while Pryor takes note of her wonderful perfume. It's in these moments, like the bar fight or the two driving a police squad car, that we see the pair make the most of the material and probably aware the movie's meant only to showcase their talents. Much of the humor - if not all of it - comes from watching Pryor and Wilder work together, one compensating for the other's impairment. ![]() While trying to clear their names and solve the mystery involving a rare gold coin, a pseudo road movie ensues, with police always conveniently one step behind. Wilder's Dave Lyons barks at his partner's constant profanity while Pryor's Wally snaps back at his partner's high-strung personality.Īfter being falsely accused of murdering Wally's loan shark, implausibility is taken to the extreme as the two men go on the run. Their camaraderie is believable and undeniable with an energetic banter that sometimes carries a sly cynicism. The chemistry and timing between them remains unchanged however and is ultimately the real highlight of the film. 'No Evil' almost seems as if it lightly borrows elements from the other two and hopes we won't notice.įrom a script that required six writers, one of which was Wilder, the story is simply there to give reason enough to see Pryor pretend to be blind and Wilder act as if he's deaf. Namely, Wilder and Pryor's previous two efforts, which come across as more original and imaginative. Then again, there are better things to do or watch for wasting away a couple of hours. In spite of its weaknesses, however, it has grown over the years into a cult comedy with several chuckles sprinkled throughout and at least offers an amusing diversion for a boring Sunday afternoon. Sadly, the movie doesn't match the hilarity of their first teaming, or even come close to the insightful laughs of 'Stir Crazy.' Featuring a terribly generic plot revolving around a murder mystery, this third pairing is an all-too obvious cash-grab with little to make it truly memorable. The Danes feel that the Dutch hospitality suddenly becomes unsettling and that they are becoming increasingly entangled in a web of their own politeness as a result of the eccentric - or is it sinister? - behavior.'See No Evil, Hear No Evil' not only brings Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder together for a third feature film outing, but also reunites the dynamic chemistry of the duo with 'Silver Streak' director Arthur Hiller. The delight of reuniting is quickly replaced with miscommunication, though, and things rapidly spiral out of control. Months later, the more traditional Danish family is invited to spend a long weekend with the free-spirited Dutch family in their country home. And then my brother and I talked about the story and imagined all these funny but also scary situations it could have let go, and decided, ‘What if the worst thing that could happen, actually does happen?’”Īccording to the official summary, two families - one Danish and one Dutch - meet and quickly become friends while on holiday in Tuscany. "I started imagining what would have happened if we actually went to visit this creep Dutch couple. They declined, but the encounter sparked his curiosity. He explained that a few years ago, he and his girlfriend were on holiday, and they met an odd Dutch couple who invited them to their house in Rotterdam. ![]() One of the Tafdrup brothers continued on the same panel about how the idea for their film came to be.
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