Stir Crazy Reviews

1980

Rated:
70
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New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment -- they're sent to .. Read more

Starring	Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Barry Corbin
Director	Sidney Poitier
Genres	Comedy

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As Sidney Poitier's direction and a firm script all but vanish beneath the clowning, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (again playing the cynic and the innocent) are, according to your taste and viewpoint, either highly creative or contrived, witty or noisy, inspired or tedious. Relying more on mugging than acting (especially in the second half), they play a couple of goons who leave New York for California and are wrongly imprisoned for a bank robbery en route. To give the film its due, prison clichés are cleverly lampooned here with wild invention, and Pryor's chicken scene is one that will last.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Extended farce giving rather too free rein to its stars' potential for mugging, and polishing up every prison gag in the book.
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
Repeating the teaming first aired in Silver Streak, Pryor plays a street-sussed cynic, the perfect foil to Wilder's (by... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
Most helpful members' reviews (3) of Stir Crazy
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Fantastic!!!

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor team up again in this comic tale of two guy's wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to jail. I cannot stress how much you should rent this title.

I also recommend See No Evil, Hear No Evil as the comedy is very similar.
- - Adam Heeley from Sheffield, England
  - Posted 28 Jul 2004 01:06
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

TOP MOVIE !!!

Two New Yorkers, with no jobs and no prospects, decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere. But when they're mistaken for bank robbers, they don't have to worry about employment -- they're sent to prison! Soon our heroes are trying to make the best of a bad situation -- because with 120 year sentences, it sure doesn't look as though they're getting out anytime soon.
- - A customer from GLASGOW
  - Posted 30 May 2005 21:24
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Stir Crazy is a great Comedy, the best Film that Richard Pryor and Wilder have done, and thats saying something as Hear No Evil See No Evil was a great comedy too, Ive watched this movie 5 times and can watch again its that good, so rent it if you get the chance, you dont know what your are missing.
- - KEVIN#200 from GLASGOW
  - Posted 29 Jun 2004 01:12
Most recent members' reviews (2) of Stir Crazy
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Stir Crazy is a great Comedy, the best Film that Richard Pryor and Wilder have done, and thats saying something as Hear No Evil See No Evil was a great comedy too, Ive watched this movie 5 times and can watch again its that good, so rent it if you get the chance, you dont know what your are missing.
- - KEVIN#200 from GLASGOW
  - Posted 29 Jun 2004 01:12
FUNNY! FUNNY! FUNNY!

This must be one of the funniest films of all time, Pryor and Wilder always work well together and this is no exception. Order it and you will watch it over and over and over again.
- - A customer from Cumbria England
  - Posted 25 Jul 2004 10:52

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Fantastic!!!

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor team up again in this comic tale of two guy's wrongly accused of a crime and sentenced to jail. I cannot stress how much you should rent this title.

I also recommend See No Evil, Hear No Evil as the comedy is very similar.
- - Adam Heeley from Sheffield, England
  - Posted 28 Jul 2004 01:06
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

TOP MOVIE !!!

Two New Yorkers, with no jobs and no prospects, decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere. But when they're mistaken for bank robbers, they don't have to worry about employment -- they're sent to prison! Soon our heroes are trying to make the best of a bad situation -- because with 120 year sentences, it sure doesn't look as though they're getting out anytime soon.
- - A customer from GLASGOW
  - Posted 30 May 2005 21:24
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Stir Crazy is a great Comedy, the best Film that Richard Pryor and Wilder have done, and thats saying something as Hear No Evil See No Evil was a great comedy too, Ive watched this movie 5 times and can watch again its that good, so rent it if you get the chance, you dont know what your are missing.
- - KEVIN#200 from GLASGOW
  - Posted 29 Jun 2004 01:12
Stir Crazy

Can anyone not laugh at this film no matter how many times you see it? A Wilder/Pryor classic!
- - A customer from Glasgow, Scotland
  - Posted 07 Jul 2004 12:38
FUNNY! FUNNY! FUNNY!

This must be one of the funniest films of all time, Pryor and Wilder always work well together and this is no exception. Order it and you will watch it over and over and over again.
- - A customer from Cumbria England
  - Posted 25 Jul 2004 10:52
remember this film when i was a lad,had to watch again, pryor,wilder, make this film a one to watch, if you hav,nt seen this adventure with laughs all the way.
- - dal#1 from SUFFOLK
  - Posted 20 Feb 2004 18:50
This is simply the funniest movie I have ever seen. If you only get one comedy movie, get this one - you wont be dissapointed.
- - A customer from CLEETHORPES
  - Posted 18 Apr 2004 22:56
Watch it

One of the classics, it must be nice to be Crazy :D
- - Mike Gould from Manchester
  - Posted 09 Jan 2005 18:28
GREAT!!!

This is the comedy genius of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor at it's magnificent best.

Every now and then a film is released which just always remains timeless and this is one of those on the comedy front, as funny now as when it was first released.
- - Lee Synnuck from worcester
  - Posted 22 Mar 2005 10:41
This is classic duo comedy at its best, along with silver streak and see no evil hear no evil there ought to be a trilogy box set of these 3 movies.

And a special edition of this would be cool as it only features a filmography.

Would love to see this on Superbit also!!

Rent now!! for a great laugh!!
- - DAMON VAZQUEZ from HUNGERFORD, BERKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM
  - Posted 05 Apr 2005 21:28

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Critics' reviews (3)
As Sidney Poitier's direction and a firm script all but vanish beneath the clowning, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (again playing the cynic and the innocent) are, according to your taste and viewpoint, either highly creative or contrived, witty or noisy, inspired or tedious. Relying more on mugging than acting (especially in the second half), they play a couple of goons who leave New York for California and are wrongly imprisoned for a bank robbery en route. To give the film its due, prison clichés are cleverly lampooned here with wild invention, and Pryor's chicken scene is one that will last.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Extended farce giving rather too free rein to its stars' potential for mugging, and polishing up every prison gag in the book.
- Halliwell's Film Guide
- Posted 02 Mar 2006
Repeating the teaming first aired in Silver Streak, Pryor plays a street-sussed cynic, the perfect foil to Wilder's (by... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008

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