Its getting harder and harder to make comedy. Some people enjoy taking offense on pretty much anything, disregarding that creating offense between characters or playing on cultural differences can be the very core of comedy. Another problem today is that people want fast stories, at the same time not predictable, at the same time similar to what they already know, but very different, but not too different. I how you get the picture.
I found this film very entertaining. If you don't read anything about it upfront, which is what I did, I had absolutely no idea where this was going next - and I really enjoyed that.
Great dialogues. Bill Murray really pulls it off and so did everybody else.
I wonder why this film was not more successful when it came out. Maybe some films are like good wine. With age they get better. Or some are ahead of their time and the audience appreciates them once they catch up. Whatever the reason, it felt like the right time for me and I am glad I had a chance to see it. For my taste it's better than some comedies of the same period that enjoyed rave reviews and crowds at the box office.
I'm giving it nine out of then because I thought in wrapping the whole thing up it got a bit too stereotypical considering its nice and unusual twists and turns.
Loved the improv in the end when Bill is buying a Chinese elephant for his know it all daughter in a Moroccan Casbah.
Kudos to the makers. I hope they are over the disappointment of the low success when it came out. Hope it will become some kind of comedy classic about attaining a very tiny basic human right for women in patriarch religious societies. The right to sing.
