Buddy Buddy (1981)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.4/10   

Director:

Billy Wilder

Escritores:

Francis Veber (play)
Francis Veber (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 diciembre 1981 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

The greatest movie buddies of all time are back!

Plot:

Walter Matthau plays a professional killer going by the name of Trabucco, who is on his way to rub out gangster Rudy "Disco" Gambola...

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Remake Of French Film | Female Nudity | Foreign Language Adaptation | Suicide

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Wilder-wise, a non-Wilder: amusement-wise, barely adequate

Reparto

Jack Lemmon	...	Victor Clooney
Walter Matthau	...	Trabucco
Paula Prentiss	...	Celia Clooney
Klaus Kinski	...	Dr. Hugo Zuckerbrot
Dana Elcar	...	Capt. Hubris
Miles Chapin	...	Eddie, the Bellhop
Michael Ensign	...	Assistant Manager
Joan Shawlee	...	Receptionist
Fil Formicola	...	Rudy 'Disco' Gambola
C.J. Hunt	...	Kowalski
Bette Raya	...	Mexican Maid
Ronnie Sperling	...	Hippy Husband
Suzie Galler	...	Pregnant Wife
John Schubeck	...	Newscaster
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Lieutenant #1

También conocida como:

Aquí, un amigo (Spain) [es]
Compadres (Mexico) [es]

Duración:

96 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | USA:R | Australia:M | Canada:A (Ontario)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Riverside, California, USA

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

Last film directed by Billy Wilder.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Clooney is looking into the auditorium at the clinic, the door opens outward as seen from the outside. When the shot switches to the inside, the door opens inward.

Citas:

hotel clerk: How long will you be staying with us?
Trabucco: I'll let you know.

Conexiones de Película:

References Love Story (1970)

Banda de Sonido:

Cecilia

Wilder-wise, a non-Wilder: amusement-wise, barely adequate

"Buddy Buddy", the final film of the genius that was Billy Wilder, is a decent comedy but not a worthy ending to his career. It's a remake of the French film "L'Emmerdeur", but I haven't seen it and am therefore incapable of comparison.

Someone pointed out that the movie looks a lot older than it is. I very much agree.

It is sad to see geniuses like Wilder and Diamond putting something as awkward as genital jokes into their script. Surprisingly, there is one clumsy slapstick moment. There are genuinely funny scenes and lines, too ("Father, you said the F word"), but they are a minority. Some attempts at creating humour fail terribly, as if made by amateurs (Lemmon chair-bound); most merely produce nods of acceptance.

Matthau is good and Lemmon is amusing as expected. However, Paula Prentiss's performance is really disturbing, intentionally or not, and Kinski's character is just annoying - and I mean written that way.

Overall the film, entitled here "Varsinaiset kumppanukset" ("Some Buddies"), isn't nearly as embarrassing as I'd expected; a mere shadow, nevertheless, it is of its director's previous masterpieces - if even that. But be not fooled: Wilder can't go bad (granted, I still have a lot to see). A few, pardon my French, comedy nuggets make this decent as an entertainment, and its two stars are okay. "Buddy Buddy", then, as a title... Meh.