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www.channel4.com - : One of those dire buddy-buddy caper movies that shouldn't have been made. A vaudeville song-and-dance act at the end of the 19th century, Caan and Gould become entangled with Caine's entrepreneur, who turns out to have ambitions as a criminal kingpin. Not to put too fine a point on it, Caan and Gould are lousy singers and dancers (and come across as desperately smug actors here), Caine is miscast and the direction relies too heavily on some half-hearted slapstick and wretched mugging. A movie that is best skipped if you have the option. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Director Mark Rydell's ''Harry and Walter Go to New York'' is commonly considered a ''misfire,'' though time has treated it well. The featureless DVD, of course, won't go a long way to persuading a reevaluation but time and word of mouth will undoubtedly have their sway. The movie is essentially an overblown Laurel & Hardy routine taken to extremes with James Caan and Elliott Gould as the thinly-disguised facsimiles, a pair of carnival comics who go to prison for fraud only to get mixed up with a nutty safecracker played by Michael Caine. The rest of the adventure goes as to be expected -- a jailbreak, romantic entanglement with Diane Keaton and other assorted adventures that work only because the actors are so good and Mark Rydell's direction so fluid. more...
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