Business executive Donald Beeman (Tom Smothers) is tired of his job and quits. The bombing doesn't help. His boss Mr. Turnbull (John Astin) is desperate to get him back. Instead, he's more taken with being a magician. He learns from Mr. Delasandro (Orson Welles) to become a Tap Dancing Magician.
Brian De Palma is not known for comedies. It's four years before Carrie when he can put comedies behind him. This is more quirky than actually funny. It's a lowkey satire. Katharine Ross hits it over the head with a sledgehammer in her MPDG performance. It's strange that Tom Smothers becomes more the straight man. The plot is rambling. The story takes some weird turns. It would be fine but I'm getting lost. The jokes are scattered and weakly constructed. I have to put all that on De Palma. It's not his genre.
Brian De Palma is not known for comedies. It's four years before Carrie when he can put comedies behind him. This is more quirky than actually funny. It's a lowkey satire. Katharine Ross hits it over the head with a sledgehammer in her MPDG performance. It's strange that Tom Smothers becomes more the straight man. The plot is rambling. The story takes some weird turns. It would be fine but I'm getting lost. The jokes are scattered and weakly constructed. I have to put all that on De Palma. It's not his genre.