Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Executive Decision/Ed/Two Much/The Star Maker/Land and Freedom (1996)

Gene Siskel: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Gene Siskel - Host : And our next film is a baseball comedy called "Ed", and it's just plain awful. I don't know HOW you can so thoroughly screw up a kid's film about baseball and a monkey.

  [...] 

  Gene Siskel - Host : I stared at long sections of "Ed", and seconds later, I couldn't tell you WHAT I saw. Director Bill Couturié lingers on scenes long after they've lost any interest; screenwriters Ken Richards and David Mickey Evans have created a script without laughs. Matt LeBlanc is a hot actor with his TV show "Friends"; if his agent suggested he make his starring debut in "Ed", well, maybe it's time for a new agent, because "Ed" is just awful.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Well, it IS just awful, Gene. I WOULD like to make a footnote.

  [Gene chuckles] 

  Roger Ebert - Host : You were saying, "Who would laugh at this: Adults or kids?" I believe that some of the bathroom humor and some of the slapstick humor and some of the cornball humor involving the monkey WOULD appeal to younger kids. I think when I was six or seven, it would've appealed to me. That was before I really...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Before you reached eight.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Before I reached eight, good, very good line. But, uh, apart from that little gap there, the kindergarten set, who might enjoy this movie, who MIGHT enjoy this movie, I agree with you, it's awful, let's move on.