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ODTAA is an adventure novel first published in February 1926 by John Masefield. Its title stands for One Damn Thing After Another.

This is an action adventure farce played deadpan for fun providing "One Damn Thing After Another." It is fun and worth seeing again.

The sub-7 ratings here seem to be by people predisposed to pan the movie before they walked in. Those who expected anything more did not understand the form of the original. When you understand the form and the central idea the film makers were striving for the movie, you can just relax and enjoy the ride while being entertained by an ensemble of great actors enjoying themselves and their work.

It is worth watching again.

Evidently, the IMDb Users are not familiar with the farce as a theatrical form - a comic dramatic work that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. Farces are often highly incomprehensible plot-wise (due to the large number of plot twists and random events that occur), but viewers are encouraged not to try to follow the plot in order to avoid becoming confused and overwhelmed. Farce is also characterized by physical humor, the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, broadly stylized performances (buffoonery and horseplay) and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.

Here a great cast of character actors and a supernatural plot, adds up to a farce. A form where great character actors Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, James Spader, G.W. Bailey and Mesach Taylor can ham it up and overact for the laughs. Even the minor players Carole Davis, Steve Vinovich and Christopher Maher continue the broadly played comedic characters with an excess of ham and absurdity.

It's just fun and a guilty pleasure.

It you didn't get either, you must have checked your sense of humor at the opening credits or you've become too sophisticated for I Love Lucy or the Three Stooges and that is sad.