Where’s Poppa?

bernie

at 7:59 pm

Gordon Hocheiser (George Segal) lives with his aged, really age, mother (Ruth Gordon). Her senile antics are threatening to ruin his love life; so she must go, really go. His brother Sidney (Ron Leibman) thinks not. But what does his girl Louise (Trish Van Devere) think? And how will they resolve this situation?

This film is sort of a dark Walter Mitty. Only it is not executed quite as well. This is defiantly not Rob Reiner’s, whom makes a token appetence in his film like Alfred Hitchcock does, finest hour.

The skit is not well thought out. The dialog, if you can call it dialog, is stilted and disjointed. The film is not a dark comedy in the fact that it cannot think long enough to be dark. It relies solely upon potty words and potty humor. Not the British irreverently funny potty humor, but gross and snide.

I am not sure how they bribed George Segal and Ruth Gordon into this film. You can see they gave it their all. It could have been a good vehicle but it was too Reinerised.

Zorro, the Gay Blade ~ Ron Leibman
Rating: 1 / 5