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Title: Pan and Scan...and too much Falk
Review: Ho-hum. I give it two stars. There are some funny lines (as what Neil Simon script DOESN'T have funny lines), but it doesn't hold together like MURDER BY DEATH. One thing about that earlier film is that Peter Falk is only one of many, many detectives. When he's the star of the show, his Humphrey Bogart impression grows tired real fast. (Actually, it sounds like an impressionist doing an impression of Peter Falk doing an impression of Humphrey Bogart.) A lot of good supporting players, if perhaps too many of them. I did get annoyed at the "pan and scan" framing, but I certainly am not going to spend money buying a widescreen version should one ever become available.
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