I saw this in the theater with my high-school sweetheart with the first ending. Over 2500 miles away, my future wife was with her boyfriend watching it in the theater with the second ending. About a week after we met, we discovered that we both loved this movie, but were surprised the other one mis-remembered the ending, so we rented it on VHS to settle a bet on which was the correct ending and were shocked to discover there were multiple endings. It has always been a favorite in our household.
It surprises me that people didn't like the jokes... How could you go wrong with: "Just checking." "Is everything all right?" "Yup, two corpses, everything's fine."
AND my personal favorite.. "I'M NOT SHOUTING! ..... Alright, I am! I'M SHOUTING, I'M SHOUTING, I'M SH - ' candlestick hits him on the head... My personal favorite!
I love how, at the start, they freak out and scream every time someone is killed then, about midway through or a bit later, they get so used to it they don't even react anymore. It's also hilarious watching them try to move the cook from the kitchen and the way they just drop the bodies when they're done.
dragonheart8706 Ivette: “Boot eet eez DARK upstairz! And I am frighten of ze dark. Weel anyone go weeth me?” Mr. Plum: “I will!” Cln. Mustard: “I will!” Mr. Green: “No, thank you!”
@@daniellanctot6548 I love Wadsworth tellis Miss. White that no man in his right might would be alone together with her, then when they draw lots to split up and search the house, they end up together. In fact, every pairing is made up of the people who least would want to work together.
"He threatened to kill her in public." "Why would he want to kill her in public?" "I think he meant he threatened - in public - to kill her." One of the best lines in cinema.
You could select a random 15-second clip of this movie, and it would STILL contain one of the best lines in movie history! The whole movie is brilliant writing from beginning to end.
Funny movie, but I always liked "Murder by Death" more. Both featured Eileen Brennan in their casts. =) *Sidney Wang:* "No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead." - Peter Sellers, "Murder by Death" (1976)
Let's remember that the Clue movie is set in the mid-50's, so the «outdated» jokes do work. The elephant in the room is of course, Mr. Green being gay, but notice how the characters are much more shocked to discover that Wadworth's "wife" had Socialist friends.
That’s a great point, and we have to keep in mind that nostalgia for the 50s and 60s was very high at the time with movies like Back to the Future and television shows like The Wonder Years
I watched this for the first time a few nights ago and was amazed at the social satire. That first villain speech dropped my jaw. "Communism is just a red herring. Like all members of the oldest profession, I am a capitalist."
Ah...the fabled dog in the back ending. No, you're right - none of them were made to be sense; the reason why there were different endings was to represent the potential - like in the game - that the killer could be anyone BUT also a bit of a gimmick to get more people to watch the film.
I think also they felt the fourth ending was too dark..in it the other guests had been poisoned and were doomed to die in the next hour (as explained by Wadsworth) and he gets killed in a crash meaning all of them die. While there is a lot of murder in the film, the main characters (for better or for worse) are the ones the audience gets attached to and it's not suppose to be too serious so I could see having an ending where every one dies would be too dark (granted in the real ending, Wadsworth dies but that's only because he is revealed to Mr. Body who has to die since that was the point of the game)
You have met Tim Curry, spoken to him and been the personal recipient of an awesome line. I have done none of these things 😢 … … and therefore I am left with no choice but to hunt you down, mentally extract your memories, upload them to a super computer, devise an algorithm which will reconfigure them into memories compatible with my subconscious, download them into my brain and go forward in life with the delusion of this 'personal experience'. I suggest you arrange your affairs in order now, as I will have no desire to wait, nor patience for under preparedness.
Yeah he's said recently that his favourites were Clue and Muppet Treasure Island. BTW he sang his song on that live and in one take. The Muppets now want songs to be live rather than lip synched. Dayum he's so good he changed the Muppets.
"Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone?" "I don't know, he's on everybody else's, why shouldn't he be on mine?" The funniest line in the whole movie for me. A lot of people don't get it.
"How many husbands have you had?" "Mine or other women's " Mrs White is the best. I have loved this movie since I saw it in theatres. Tim Curry, Madeleine Kahn...the whole cast is absolutely brilliant. Thank God Tim Curry was placed as Wadsworth. Truly an underrated actor.
Watching this movie as a kid, I always imagined it as the visual representation of the actual boardgame. I took the ending of the movie as the first two players guessing wrong and the third guesses it correctly, end game, credits.
Ken Johns I just showed this to my kids and I set it up like that as well. I saw this in the theater when I was a kid in 1985 (I loved the game and made my parents take me opening weekend) and my local theater had the Peacock ending. For years and years and years that’s all I knew, despite trying to get my parents to take me to another theater with a different ending (they did not want to watch it again - lol).
I have to say that never really occurred to me … but I FREAKIN' LOVE IT !!! I feel like I'll never watch this again without thinking about this interpretation, and I am absolutely fine with that. I believe these belong to you, Sir … _PROPS™_
I had a friend who used to swear that it looks like he originally said 'shit' then it was dubbed over as shucks later. I pointed out to him that there are no other parts where they swear like that and no obvious signs of dubbing but he still clung to that idea for years.
"Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?" "You don't need any help from me." "That's right." I've seen this movie dozens of times over the past 25 years and STILL laugh my ass off at that exchange.
Yep completely. This a movie that if it is one I just have to stop what I am doing and watch it. I laugh every time. In fact it seems to get funnier BECAUSE I know when the jokes are coming if that makes sense.
I said the "too late" bit to my mother when I was a teenager, and she died laughing. She had never heard that before. To this day she says that's one of the funniest things she's ever heard. I told her I got it from "Clue," but she still hasn't seen the movie.
I once accidentally said this to my 7th grade social studies teacher. He would have been mad but he couldn't hide the fact that he found it funny. I was mortified, as it just slipped out instinctually.
This, among many, many other lines from movies ("Surely you're kidding!" | "I'm not, and don't call me Shirley.")have become staples of my friends and family, and meeting those who also reply with the cult classic quotes always warms my heart. That being said, I grew up with Clue on VHS, and I watched Clue religiously, before I knew who Mel Brooks was, before I'd ever seen Airplane! or Blazing Saddles. Tim Curry was, for the longest time, the *only* actor's name I knew, and I tended to confuse other actors with him. When I was younger, I thought Tim Curry was the Die Hard guy. Of course, now I know it's Tom Hanks.
I always interpreted the movie as if a group of people were playing the game off-screen. The first two endings would be incorrect "guesses" about how the murder happened, like how someone might guess in the board game. While the third ending was the true solution/reveal.
@@Eshtian Happens if you are worried that someone else is closer to a 'sure' answer than you are--you might risk it if you've got two out of three elements pinned down, and have eliminated some, but not all, of the possibilities in the third.
I have too many favourite visual gags. I know one I love that never made the edit. Harvey Korman strapped to the Nurse Ratchets ceiling in bondage gear. High Anxiety.
"If the killer is in here just LOOK OUT" has so far kept me from being murdered in my home. I can never really know if I would have survived this long without it.
I love the word play in this movie! My favorite: "Why would he threaten to kill you in public?" "I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her."
I´m gay and I really love how the revelation that he is not gay is portrayed as this glorius and heroic moment JAJAJAJAJA WTF people really react that way nowdays.
@@sugar4155 As an extremely proud 🏳️🌈 I laugh because that's the McCarthy era "communism was just a red herring" (but they were also still trying to destroy anything outside of the heteronormative spectrum). I feel like he yells that very very loud for show "everything I did was undercover work boys!" People who believe that about mr. Green can keep that belief. We have "But I'm a Cheerleader" and "I Love You Phillip Morris". Yep. Having a wife TOTALLY makes him straight. 🙄🤣
@@sugar4155 Curiously, I remember someone breaking down the realistic options of the three endings, and it's Ms. Scarlet as the killer that's most likely as the others bank on other people knowing the secret passages existed. Yvette easily could've informed her employer about the secret passages beforehand. This means the 'final' ending isn't canon and thus Mr. Green is still gay.
About Leslie Anne Warren, as a kid, I remember thinking I could not *wait* to grow up so I can wear a dress like Miss Scarlett, not just the physical dress, but how she carried herself in it. I loved her commanding presence and how she slunk her body in that gorgeous gown. She owned every bit of that look and that part. :DD
The corset was very uncomfortable. Much like the one Morticia's actor has to wear. Probably "ok" to wear on a special night out. But not something you'd want to do every day.
I just re-watched the movie again (this is all your fault, you know) and I realized something: Clue is in real-time. From the start of the film to the end, there are no "time jumps". Wadsworth says the police will be there in an hour, it's an hour until they show up (not counting time from the other endings). People move from room to room in a realistic amount of time it would take them to walk. It's incredibly rare for a film to do that and the only other ones I can think of are either much more strongly tied plot-wise to their time limit or they're shot to appear to be one take. The only time skip cut I could find in the entire film is the third ending at the "Monkey's Brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC" part, there's a jump from the hallway to the dining room rather than the franting running around of the other scenes.
That's some of the fun of the movie to me. you get a feeling like you could actually be standing there in the house watching them all walk and run back and forth past you in real time for the full hour and change that the story takes place.
As an old person who was in her early 20's when this movie came out, I just want to clear a couple of things. Theater gimmicks were not a thing in the 80's. That was one of the things that made this movie unique, the different endings was almost an homage to an art form outside the movie experience; Madeline Kahn was well known for not only Blazing Saddles, but also Young Frankenstein; Martin Mull was very well known as a comedic genius having been associated with The Smother Brothers, Johnathan Winters, and more importantly, the TV Show "Mary Hartman Mary Hartman" and how easy it is to forget his truly masterpiece song, "White Man Blues", that came out the year before; While Christopher Lloyd may have only been known as Reverend Jim from, "Taxi", he did win 2 Emmy's for that role while turning it from a walk-on to a regular character; and while Michael McKean did have familiarity from his role on, "Laverne & Shirley", he was equally well-known for his role in counter-culture influence. in "This Is Spinal Tap". In my opinion, this is why the movie is a cult classic: because it had non-mainstream comedians who were well known for taking gentle but firm pokes at mainstream. And then to top it off, you have Tim Curry, Dr. Frankenfurter, as the centerpiece and ending the film with Howard Hesseman, who was most famous as Dr. Johnny Fever from "WKRP in Cincinatti". The reason art becomes cult classics is because it is too forward thinking for mainstream. "Clue" didn't take itself seriously. It was made for shear fun. Fortunately, a group of fans who "get it" keep it alive and eventually, mainstream catches up. Cult Classics are the wheels that keep us moving forward.
Just a quick point re: Christopher Lloyd - Clue also benefitted from him being Doc Brown in Back to the Future, which had just come out that summer (I believe it was the July 4th weekend release). But overall, you’re right. These were names that brought a smile to people’s faces just hearing they were in it. People went in already laughing, knowing some of the humor would be dumb, or too slapstick, but they simply wanted to have a good time. It wasn’t highbrow - it was silly fun and on that level it succeeded tremendously.
All of this. I'm almost 50 ... (is that what people do at 49, say "almost-50?" anyway, i digress) I *liked* that it had multiple endings but really didn't care which one they showed in any of the times I saw it. I went for Curry and Kahn.
And I love it how in every single ending, Mr. Green was right: he didn't do any of the murders except shoot Mr. Boddy in the true ending."But if you wanna know who really killed Mr. Boddy, I did... in the hall... with the revolver."
There was also a Psych episode that parodies Clue and that’s where I first even heard of it. I liked the Psych episode so I eventually checked out the movie and absolutely loved it. I laughed so hard and got so many references that Psych made.
Only bad part about it was having to chase down which theaters were showing which of the endings in order to see the whole thing. So glad that they included them all on the VHS and DVD releases. =)
@@jamesanthony8438 oh wow that sounds like a nightmare! I bet people went on thinking the specific ending they watched was the right one for the longest time!!
@inyrui Oh wow, it's almost like it's a comedy movie, based off of a board game, and that is making fun of how convoluted and stupid mystery movies can be. Please, enlighten us with your other incredible thoughts, such as water being a liquid, or air being necessary to live, or eyes being needed to see
@inyrui As much as I love this movie, I think you hit the nail on the head by pointing out that the clues go nowhere. They really don't. I've always struggled to articulate what I thought was the movies weakness. Yet it remains a clever farce with a stellar cast and some pretty fantastic set design and costuming.
@inyrui It really can't, what can be picked apart is the way you are looking at the movie. This movie is a COMEDY and a SPOOF, it is not a mystery movie. The movie has great writing as a comedy movie that is spoofing mystery movies. It does not have good writing as a mystery movie, because it isn't one. I never said it being a board game based movie means it can have bad writing, I didn't say that because it doesn't have bad writing. The whole point of the multiple endings "gimmick" is literally showing why you're point of there "not being enough clues" is fucking intentional. The endings are presented as basically "the answer is that it can be anyone" which is directly making fun of "mystery" movies and shows that give half assed clues and red herrings the entire time until finally it's revealed that random side character #4 was the killer the entire time. Do not get mad at me just because you completely missed the point of the damn movie.
I never knew that was a set. I figured it was just a mansion that was redressed with the tiles and period furniture (mostly because of the upstairs areas and the secret passages seemed built "out" of the walls instead of flush with them). That blows my mind they were able to do that much on a soundstage. Nothing on that set looks cheap or fake with the usual cut corners you see.
I'm a child of the 80s so I grew up with this movie on home video. I practically wore out a tape watching it so much. It wasn't until I went to college in the mid-ish 90s that I found another person that not only KNEW "Clue" but loved it and could pick up my references.
I didn't even have the video - I recorded it off a local TV station. It took about 15 years before I realized that had been edited for time and content (Professor Plum pinching Miss Scarlet's ass when they arrive at the house was, unsurprisingly, removed from the TV version).
ByloBand I can relate. I absolutely LOVE Clue!!!! My hubby does not. Since he is clearly wrong, I have a 2nd copy of it up at our cabin and play it every other weekend for him to suffer through 😋 LOL I think it’s starting to grow on him......
I'm late to the party here, but I've loved this movie for years. Even as a kid, I always took the "lame jokes" and jokes not landing to BE the joke. That it was funnier to see someone try to be funny and fail, rather than to just be funny. I always thought it was totally intentional, and that it was meant to be corny.
I am pretty sure you are right! I always felt that way too...as a matter of fact, I never once thought the jokes were lame or outdated. They were the characters. And they put alot of "character" in each one. Clue is a serious favorite of mine for how unique it seemed to be
Ditto....I'm 45 and saw this in the theaters, but had my mind blown once I saw all the endings tied up later. But I too thought all the actors were in on the gag.
I saw it first on VHS and found out about the theater "gimmick" later. I thought it was pretty cool, since I had never heard of any other movie that may end differently, depending on where and when you see it, but apparently the critics of the time disagreed. 🙂
I agree with all of you! I owned Clue on VHS and grew up watching it. It's what got me started on liking comedies. Even the slower, quieter moments of the film don't feel slow, boring, or awkward to me. If I had to equate it to something else, Clue is a Dad Joke in movie format. It's even got that gimmick of using the exact same set up to tell the joke, but surprise! The punchline's different this time, kiddo! I'd actually done a "book report" on the movie, on how the pauses in between the "action" scenes are meant not to build tension, but anticipation, and I've always felt that it delivers very well on both the emotional release (in the form of a new joke or someone dying) and anticlimax (in the form of the characters reacting more and more carelessly to said deaths). My favorite joke from the movie has and likely always will be "Dada da-da da dah! I! Am. Your Singing Telegram!" **BANG** It's such a small, inconsequential seeming moment, even a bit of a non-sequitur, and yet it also doesn't feel out of place whatsoever. It's like how farting at a funeral is usually abrupt and disruptive, but still likely to elicit a couple shocked or surprised giggles amongst all the embarrassed glares.
Completely agree that the different endings work best in a row, got it in DVD, and it just works great, feels like the first ones are "the case was solved wrong", with the ending being the true solved ending
To me Clue is to murder mysteries as Creepshow is to horror. The whole feel of it is half homage, half parody, half self-aware cheesy pulp throwback. I'm aware that's 3 halfs, but that's just how much I like Clue (and Creepshow).
girl you're so right...Lesley Ann Warren and then of course Tim Curry LITERALLY make this entire movie. The entire cast is amazing...but those two are the standouts and she's an insanely talented and underrated actress that deserves way more credit. This is one of my all time favorite movies
She is the reason I ended up going to Hofstra University... I didn't know at the time that she studied as a speech pathologist rather than for theater, but I admired her and I would not have met my husband if I didn't transfer schools... so inadvertently, Madeline Kahn is the reason I am happily married and had a great college experience. 😋
I was 14 when the dollar cinema had this and they swapped out the endings each day but we had no idea how many ending there were so we just went back each day for a week. We loved it, adored it. It is easily a top 10 movie of the 80's for kids my age. I am so thankful that I got to show it to my children before the became jaded by the internet.
you left out a BIG part of Clue's lasting legacy - the video rentals in the late '80s and early '90s. Every single slumber party I went to from about 1988-1993 had to have this movie. We kids of the '80s rescued this movie (and The Princess Bride) from obscurity. Without those crazy video rentals it wouldn't have aired on TV so much in the late '90s. You're welcome :)
Yeah, thinking about this movie in the framework of Hbomberguy's video about "The Power of VHS" I think this movie is definitely in the category of "plays better on home video than a theater". A great movie to watch at night with some friends in a living room, maybe not the best movie to watch in a dark theater with a bunch of strangers (especially with the issue of the theatrical endings). th-cam.com/video/xbZMqS-fW-8/w-d-xo.html
How many times have Critics been wrong about movies? 2001 A Space Odyssey, Predator, and even Alien were all given poor reviews when they came out. Look what happened with those. Enjoyment is subjective, no one man or woman can ever talk for the majority, nor should their opinions ever be taken as gospel. After all, that is all it is, their opinion. No one can ever have a "professional" opinion on something so subjective. It is simply impossible, which completely devaluates a critics credentials.
Who’s that guy? MISTER PEANUTBUTTER! Knick knack paddy whack, Gamer’s in the zone. Who’s that guy? MISTER PEANUTBUTTER! Mario is Missing, Luigi’s all alone.
Let's also remember that according to the actual end of the movie (actual in this sense meaning after this the credits roll) its revealed Mr Green was role playing as a plant. So, the actor was playing a character who was playing a character...in a comedy... of course it's going to be over the top and outlandish. He's trying to seem the least threating to the blackmailer/killer in order to catch him/her/them, and not get bumped off himself.
My mom laughed at the "he's on everybody else's why shouldn't he be on mine" line, and then we paused the movie so she would tell us the story of J. Edgar Hoover. :) BWF
I believe one critical aspect you missed in CLUE building its post-theatrical following is VHS/video rentals. As someone who worked for many years in that business, I can confirm this phenomenon; I was there for it. And as someone who is obviously older, I saw it multiple times in the theater(s) so I could see all the endings, loved it then and then reeeeeally loved it upon repeated viewings on VHS. Has been a multi-generational favorite in our family for so long.
There was also a throwback episode of Psych called '100 Clues' (it was the show's 100th episode) that had many of the original stars from the movie in it. It's worth checking out.
I think if they remake Clue, it’s gonna be an interesting time. Ryan Reynolds would make a great Wadsworth and I think they could absolutely write a new movie that keeps the same tone and is basically a spiritual successor. The bigger question is who would we cast as the guests since Mr Boddy seems like it would be a good way to have a director cameo. “He’s the reason we are all here!” - Director walks into the room as a subtle 4th wall break.
I hope they do NOT remake it. All these remakes and reboots are an obvious cash-grab and more evidence Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. It also suggests the original isn’t good enough.
If the original is good and they remake it, either you have two movies equally good and everyone wins or you have a scenario where one is vastly better than the other and only with the new context can you see the flaws or brilliance of the other. You are creating an entirely false narrative that states that the original wasn't good enough. What it actually states that the movie was good enough to warrant remaking it with a modern lens. Why do you think that Godzilla is remade so often? It's a good movie and a great concept that sticks around with people and remaking the movies with better technology and from a more modern perspective allows a new generation to be introduced to the movies. Jumanji is a prime example of this: A fantastic movie with a sequel that is not required, but is still a good addition to the original. It takes a good movie and modernized the concept. The original was good and the remake was good, and they coexist perfectly because they didn't just do "Jumanji but again" kinda like Zathura did. I'm just saying, bad movies don't get remakes or reboots because they were not good enough to keep a place in public memory at all. A good movie getting a bad reboot just solidifies that the movie was good in the first place and a good movie getting a good reboot is only beneficial because it can introduce people to the old movie and get a new generation of fans.
As cool as RR is, i don't think he'd make a good Wadsworth. In my opinion his emploi just doesn't work with the character (at least, compared to Tim Curry's portrayal), he's just too... I don't know, modern? Youthful? Random?
Apart from the other quotes here, I like the one that goes: “Oh, who cares, that guy doesn’t matter, let him stay, locked up for another half an hour. The police will be here by then, and there are 2 dead bodies in the study!!!!!” When she said it, her acting was so genuine that it felt like she was in actual distress. It was executed perfectly and the first half of the line rhymes.
"What is the con-CLUE-sion?" Good one! The problem with Murder She Wrote, is that she always found that button on the floor, just as she's about to solve the case. No episodes that I remember ever gave you enough information to solve the mystery, until the last moment. In some ways, I appreciated that approach, but I also liked stories, that drop clues for you, and allow you to make your own conclusion. The downside is they you might eventually end up guessing endings with more frequency, as you get more used to the episodes/chapters of your favorite mystery.
Me when I read bad reviews for this film: : it it the f it flam flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing breath heaving breaths. Heaving breaths...
Actually, that line made me wince. The fake gay man feels compelled to explain to the group that he loves the ladies. I get the joke. I just wish they had written a better line.
@@rkhound247 Most of the dated jokes are actually really topical... for the late 50's or early 60's when the story is set. That's the joke. This guy just spent an entire night in a house of psychos pretending to be a halfway camp homosexual. He got tired of it. But the delivery was at such an odd moment it comes across as out of nowhere and over the top and insecure. That makes it freaking hilarious.
It is strange to think of this movie not being well received. This is easily my favorite movie EVER. I watch it regularly. I can quote this whole movie from beginning to end. I even got my daughter to watch it, and she loved it as much as I do. When ever I find out someone has never seen this movie, I always set out to get them over to watch it with me. Just a classic movie!
just my two cents: i dont think Clue needs a remake because I think it already has the perfect modern successor in Knives Out. Sharp humor, over-the-top characters, gorgeous murder-mansion setting, snappy dialogue, killer slapstick gags, an actually well-constructed and subversive murder mystery........clue would be proud. i dont think any remake could embody what made Clue special better than Knives Out did.
I loved Knives Out! It's less game board restricted than Clue, but definitely has some dramatic campy similarities. Even though it's gotten good reviews, I feel like most people haven't heard of it. I definitely think It'll have future cult status.
Harlan: You've got to climb up the trellis. Make sure nobody sees you. Marta: You've got to be kidding. Harlan: I am not. They even referenced Clue in that movie, which was great.
The endings weren't randomized, at least not where I grew up. I remember seeing on the theater marquee "Clue #1, Clue#2", etc so that you could go and specifically see all of the different endings. I don't know if this was just my local theater, and if the ending numbers were standardized by the studio (I expect they were, so that the theater managers could keep their inventory straight.) I always loved this film, from the very beginning. It wasn't until the internet that I learned of its poor reception.
which is why what we need isn't a remake, but a successor. another clever self-aware parody, that can be ADVERTISED as 'another Clue' all they want. that's how they need to be doing these things. when the audience wants more, they mean _another course of the same meal_ not the same entree again but now it's cold.
@@KairuHakubi I thought Knives out was almost good at this. The humor was there... But they lacked REALLY good jokes though. And they lacked the necessary amount of jokes.
Clue was bloody brilliant, not because it was a great cinematic masterpiece, but (as you pretty much said) because it was just a ridiculously fun movie that had an excellent cast and a beautiful and true to the game set. I liked the cornball jokes and innuendo when I was younger (I was 17 when the movie came out) but I agree that it was best with the three different endings done as they were on the VHS tapes and DVDs, sequentially. Another movie that reminds me of Clue by its fun ridiculousness with a great cast is Big Trouble (not Big Trouble in Little China, which is excellent in its own rights, just Big Trouble with Tim Allen and Rene Russo).
Patrick Bird Was that Big Trouble the movie based on the novel Big Trouble by humor columnist Dave Barry? If I remember, the release date had to be pushed way back because of 9-11. The movie was about a bomb on a plane I think and some thought it should not come out so close to 9-11. I can't recall if I saw the movie. I read the novel, Dave Barry's first stab at writing a novel. I liked the book back then. I need to see the movie.
@@toddvandell85Yup, that is the one. I liked the movie more than the book because at times the book felt a little character-cluttered and the movie kept the story going along without as many draggy parts as the book had. The book was still good, but I did like the movie more. :-) And, yes, the movie's release was delayed and then turned into a smaller release with negligible marketing once it finally did come out due to the storyline possibly being too upsetting so soon after 9/11. Which is a darn shame since it deserved a better fate too. It had an excellent cast with a lot of recognizable name actors, even if not all big name actors, like Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Johnny Knoxville, Dennis Farina, Zooey Deschanel, Patrick Warburton, Sofia Vergara, and others. See it if you can. I love it. :-)
@@thatpatrickguy3446 Thank you. I have a soft spot for the book even though I lost my copy a few years ago in one of my storage unit auctions. But I was a huge Dave Barry dévoté. I tried for a time to buy every book he published, even those that were just collections of his syndicated newspaper columns. Then Big Trouble came out and it was Dave's first attempt at fiction. I was intrigued immediately. He had friends who were novelists and Dave was always poking fun of his own humor column and writing and dismissing himself as the guy who writes about boogers (Boogers Are My Beat). Or something equally juvenile or whatever. So Big Trouble was his first stab at fiction and I wanted to see how he fared, writing a novel in a slightly more serious vein than his humor columns tended to be. And, I liked it. He did a decent job, for a first foray into fiction. He's had other novels I've liked better, but Big Time was kinda cool. His Christmas novella, though, that one kinda broke my heart and brought a tear. So for me, I liked that one a tiny bit better. I like a novel or a story that touches my heart. Especially unexpectedly. (Although there was a surprising, unexpected moment of tenderness in a different book of his where I had not expected one at all: Dave Barry in Cyberspace. Those little moments of tenderness that seem to sneak up on you, when you're totally unaware you've let your guard down and suddenly there's a tear rolling down your cheek because something just tugged your heart and made you feel something you were totally unprepared to feel.) Anyway. Those books leave a lasting impression, usually a very favorable one for me. Tricky Business was also a good story, as was The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog (2006). That was the Christmas novella that got to me, with a little unexpected poke in the heart. Dave has co-written several novels for young people with author friend Ridley Pearson, who was in the Rock Bottom Remainders rock band with Dave and several published authors including, at various points, Stephen King and Amy Tan, amongst others.
"So to make a long story short (too late!)" Clue is a sentimental favorite of mine as I too grew up playing the board game. Because of that, the characters didn't need to be fully fleshed out as they are representing plastic game pieces with colorful names! For that reason I think the character development was spot on in the movie, not too much or too little. Side point, I was 7 when this movie came to theaters and I remember the hype about 3 different endings and that made me want to go over and over just to experience all 3. The gimmick worked on me!
I saw Clue when I was 14 and immediately LOVED EVERYTHING! Ms. Scarlett & Mrs. White were FIERCE from head to heel. Plus god damn this movie was hilarious as hell! I was instantly obsessed with Clue and enrolled my brother into my obsession! We watched it over & over & over! F them critics!
I first saw this movie at a slumber party, probably very late 80s and i loved it then and I love now. I hate when critics judge movies for something they aren't... it was a silly comedy pretending to be serious at times. Thanks for the positive review and the nostalgia!
I grew up in the 90's, and it was the PERFECT slumber party movie. I made my friends watch it on my birthday year after year, and eventually we started devising our own "murder mystery" games to act out and solve. I don't know if there are any other films that give me such happy nostalgia.
Yea... Siskel and Ebert are BOTH guilty of that... they hated Johnny Dangerously because they didn't see it for what it was... a homage to the old gangster movies, not a direct spoof...
My parents took us to see this when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure we saw the third ending. We were given character sheets that were directly pulled from the board game, along with golf pencils, to encourage us to solve the mystery while watching. But being 10, I set the sheet aside & just enjoyed it. Any remake will be terrible - what made, still makes, this movie for me, is the chemistry between this cast. Still one of my favorites!
"He won't be driving home, officer. I promise you that!" It's hard to imagine seeing this movie with only one ending and leaving the theater thinking "Well, that was enjoyable." Even if it was the third ending. Even if they showed 2 out of 3. It just wouldn't feel like a whole movie. I like that they screwed themselves over by trying to triple dip like that, though. It set a good precedent... or at least it failed to set a bad one.
Mrs. Peacock is so great as the movie goes on. She’s completely hysterical because bodies keep dropping then she moves on to being indifferent because she’s seen enough. Mrs. White’s freak out is the best.
I love Clue! The cast was outstanding and most of the jokes do land. Being older, the jokes age better for me than for a younger viewer maybe. Plus, I would watch Tim Curry recite the ingredients off a cereal box!
I feel the same way. I watched a godawful ABC sitcom with Tim Curry called Over The Top. The only reason why I watched every episode was because of Tim. He has that kind of presence.
One of the important moments for clue to gaining its cult status, is that for a lot of people it was one of the first VHS tapes they had owned and it was ubiquitous in people's collections. Similarly how the Matrix really showed off what a dvd player could do and also became ubiquitous in peoples collections.
What I love most about Clue is the over-the-top camp. The acting is exaggerated, the script is cheesy, the dialog is chock full of innuendos, double-entendres, and wordplay. (I am not overlooking the gorgeous set, it is totally believable that this house could exist in the real world, and every time I rewatch I notice "new" details in the background.) To me, that is the endearing charm of Clue. I enjoy all of the characters, even the bit parts. I can't imagine Wadsworth being played by anyone other than Tim Curry, much like I can't imagine Frank N. Furter being played by anyone other than Tim Curry. He truly embraces his roles in a way that makes them unique and memorable! One problem with most remakes is that they are changed so much from the original that the two (or more) versions share little in common aside from the title. If studios are going to change so much of the original content, they should consider a new title and call it something new. The other problem with most remakes is the fact that studios have been spending far too much time re-imagining preexisting intellectual property instead of coming up with something new and refreshing.
The same critics hated 2001 A Space Odyssey, Predator, Alien, and many other cult classics. Almost like their opinion isn't worth shit and that enjoyment of something is completely subjective that no one man or woman can have a professional opinion on enjoyment.
The movie is to short and doesn't work unless you see all three endings in the order presented when adapted for VHS. The theatre gimmick idea of different theatre getting one of three different endings was a terrible idea. Thankfully anyone under fifty likely didn't suffer through the theatre gimmick debacle.
So... here's a perspective from an immigrant's point of view. When I first came to America at the age of 7 (and barely understood English), I didn't understand most of the jokes in this movie. But it was still fun. I saw it not really as a movie, but more like a play that was recorded and released as a movie. Even not understanding some of the jokes, it was a fun movie to watch. As I grew to know English and more of American culture (and finally understood phrases like "red herring" and understood that singing telegrams were a thing), I gained a greater appreciation for the lines and subtle humor in the movie. The humor wasn't loud or obvious. If you got it, you got it. If you didn't, you didn't. Which I appreciated greatly compared to the constant laugh tracks on sitcoms telling you when to laugh. Of course, it's not like a revolutionary movie or anything, but it is a decent, fun movie that I've enjoyed over and over. But I have to agree, if I had only seen one of the two first endings, I would think this is a bad movie. IMO, at it's heart, this is a theatrical production of a sitcom where the situation happens to be a murder mystery. Without a conclusion, it all falls flat. Plus, the real ending is, again IMO, 90% of the charm of the movie because *Spoiler Alert* while we were trying to figure out who the murderer was, the funny thing was, we were all right and all wrong at the same because everyone (except for Mr. Green, and coincidentally my favorite character to be in the Clue board game) was the murderer. Which is doubly funny because really, if you play the board game enough times, this is also true.
This movie is actually my introduction to Tim Curry. He will forever be "the Clue Butler" to me. I even remember hearing people talk about Tim Curry and not knowing who he was, despite absolutely adoring him.
Clue is and always has been one of my absolute favorite comedies. As well as one of my absolute favorite board games. The cast was brilliant and I don't agree at all that the jokes didn't land. The banter is very fast paced in places and there are many punchlines delivered throughout each joke within the dialogue. I also disagree about Lesley Ann Warren being the standout. As I said before, the entire cast was brilliant but I think the standout was Eileen Brennan. They way in most scenes (the dinner table excepted) she said so much without using words. Her facial expressions and body language did all the speaking for her.
I think it suffered from the fact that critiques like movies to fit into nice little boxes called genres and Clue doesn't really fit into any known genre. It's just Clue. A movie based off a board game. I personally hate it when people use genres and genre conventions to judge a piece of media. It's not like all the genres in the world became a thing at the same time hundreds of thousands of years ago. They're guidelines made by people who like to categorize things in order to talk about them. They're not rules.
The purpose of genres is to find an audience. Without a genre, a movie only appeals to a very small group of people (and many of those that would like it may not even watch it, since it won't be considered part of the genres they enjoy). Thus, when something is considered part of a certain genre, it is judged based on the criteria of that genre, because those are the kinds of people that will be watching it.
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Yeah it just popped up in my recommend. Great topic BTW.
Same, just popped up today. Amazing movie
Great movie, great discussion.
You popped up on my front page today and I
Weren't you once involved with the group Channel Awesome? You look super familiar... Anyway, good video, very informative
I saw this in the theater with my high-school sweetheart with the first ending. Over 2500 miles away, my future wife was with her boyfriend watching it in the theater with the second ending. About a week after we met, we discovered that we both loved this movie, but were surprised the other one mis-remembered the ending, so we rented it on VHS to settle a bet on which was the correct ending and were shocked to discover there were multiple endings. It has always been a favorite in our household.
I love this story! How cool
Okay that is a very cute story.
That’s a cute story 💕
This is the cutest thing i have ever heard. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for this wholesome story. Wishing you and your wife a long, beautiful life together!
“I...am...your singing telegram!”
**BANG**
Honestly my favorite part
Me and my brother pissed up laughing as kids at this scene.... Still makes me chuckle...
So funny!
Quoted endlessly by my high school friends for years.
I like the murder of the maid best
I like when they see her body they just act like its normal and leave it at the door step
It surprises me that people didn't like the jokes... How could you go wrong with:
"Just checking."
"Is everything all right?"
"Yup, two corpses, everything's fine."
AND my personal favorite..
"I'M NOT SHOUTING! ..... Alright, I am! I'M SHOUTING, I'M SHOUTING, I'M SH - ' candlestick hits him on the head...
My personal favorite!
@@xenxander"Three bodies."
"6, all together."
...
"This is getting serious."
*Gently shuts door."
I love how, at the start, they freak out and scream every time someone is killed then, about midway through or a bit later, they get so used to it they don't even react anymore.
It's also hilarious watching them try to move the cook from the kitchen and the way they just drop the bodies when they're done.
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Ivette: “Boot eet eez DARK upstairz! And I am frighten of ze dark. Weel anyone go weeth me?”
Mr. Plum: “I will!”
Cln. Mustard: “I will!”
Mr. Green: “No, thank you!”
@@daniellanctot6548 I love Wadsworth tellis Miss. White that no man in his right might would be alone together with her, then when they draw lots to split up and search the house, they end up together.
In fact, every pairing is made up of the people who least would want to work together.
"He threatened to kill her in public."
"Why would he want to kill her in public?"
"I think he meant he threatened - in public - to kill her."
One of the best lines in cinema.
Was there a terrace around 🤯👁️🗝️
🤣🤣🤣♥️
"🤔Flies are where men are most vulnerable"
You could select a random 15-second clip of this movie, and it would STILL contain one of the best lines in movie history! The whole movie is brilliant writing from beginning to end.
@@davidmcleod5133 so true
Two kinds of people in this world, people who liked Clue the Movie and people who were wrong.
Or alternately: Two kinds of people: Those who enjoy Clue and those who should never breed."
What about the ones who've never seen Clue?
@@1Thunderfire they are part of those who should never breed.
agree.
I heard Drew Barrymore day this once about the movie ‘Grease 2’. LOL
it blows my
mind that people are looking at this film like a horror, suspense, murder mystery, etc. IT’S A COMEDY. IT IS GENIUS.
Funny movie, but I always liked "Murder by Death" more. Both featured Eileen Brennan in their casts. =)
*Sidney Wang:* "No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead."
- Peter Sellers, "Murder by Death" (1976)
Beyond comedy, I’d say it’s farce.
@@jamesanthony8438 No need to compare them when we can have both.
It’s was a genius now I think knives out will be the next clue
It's because the majority of humans are complete idiots and will never understand what is actually good.
murder by death is not as good
Let's remember that the Clue movie is set in the mid-50's, so the «outdated» jokes do work. The elephant in the room is of course, Mr. Green being gay, but notice how the characters are much more shocked to discover that Wadworth's "wife" had Socialist friends.
the world has changed for the worst
"I was going to expose you!"
"Well, I have decided to expose myself!"
"Please...there are women present."
That’s a great point, and we have to keep in mind that nostalgia for the 50s and 60s was very high at the time with movies like Back to the Future and television shows like The Wonder Years
I watched this for the first time a few nights ago and was amazed at the social satire. That first villain speech dropped my jaw. "Communism is just a red herring. Like all members of the oldest profession, I am a capitalist."
Correct, the movies a time piece and ppl whom say the jokes dont work or whatever are dumbasses/missed the point
"The fourth ending never came to fruition as Lynn thought it didn't make sense."
I... wasn't aware ANY of the endings were supposed to make sense.
Ah...the fabled dog in the back ending. No, you're right - none of them were made to be sense; the reason why there were different endings was to represent the potential - like in the game - that the killer could be anyone BUT also a bit of a gimmick to get more people to watch the film.
I thought the "true ending" was very good
I've always thought that the third ending makes the most sense. The first two really seemed not to.
I think also they felt the fourth ending was too dark..in it the other guests had been poisoned and were doomed to die in the next hour (as explained by Wadsworth) and he gets killed in a crash meaning all of them die. While there is a lot of murder in the film, the main characters (for better or for worse) are the ones the audience gets attached to and it's not suppose to be too serious so I could see having an ending where every one dies would be too dark (granted in the real ending, Wadsworth dies but that's only because he is revealed to Mr. Body who has to die since that was the point of the game)
My friends and I met Tim Curry in the late 80's and told him how much we loved Clue. He said "Thank you, I love it too". 🥰
You have met Tim Curry, spoken to him and been the personal recipient of an awesome line.
I have done none of these things 😢 …
… and therefore I am left with no choice but to hunt you down, mentally extract your memories, upload them to a super computer, devise an algorithm which will reconfigure them into memories compatible with my subconscious, download them into my brain and go forward in life with the delusion of this 'personal experience'.
I suggest you arrange your affairs in order now, as I will have no desire to wait, nor patience for under preparedness.
@@mrmojomajestic8317 😄😄😄😄😄♥️♥️♥️
That's awesome!
@@mrmojomajestic8317 and then.... Space!
Yeah he's said recently that his favourites were Clue and Muppet Treasure Island. BTW he sang his song on that live and in one take. The Muppets now want songs to be live rather than lip synched. Dayum he's so good he changed the Muppets.
"Why is J. Edgar Hoover on your phone?"
"I don't know, he's on everybody else's, why shouldn't he be on mine?"
The funniest line in the whole movie for me. A lot of people don't get it.
I ain't seen the movie since i was a kid, I don't remember that, definitely didn't get it then, but that's a good ass line.
I dont get it, pls explain?
@@PS-dm1dq J. Edgar Hoover was known for liberal use of wire-tapping.
@@mphang Libral as in the political alignment, or meaning 'free'?
@@AceOfWaffles the second one
"How many husbands have you had?"
"Mine or other women's "
Mrs White is the best. I have loved this movie since I saw it in theatres. Tim Curry, Madeleine Kahn...the whole cast is absolutely brilliant.
Thank God Tim Curry was placed as Wadsworth. Truly an underrated actor.
Flies are where men are most vulnerable
Tim curry is one of the biggest blessings this earth has ever had
“Your own.”
I would say that everybody in this film played their part well, but absolutely nobody could have played Wadsworth better than Tim Curry.
I would offer…Jason Bateman. He’s been rumoured to be Wadsworth in the remake for years. I think he could pull it off.
@@DarcyCarmen
He has some big shoes to fill so we'll see how he does if so.
Watching this movie as a kid, I always imagined it as the visual representation of the actual boardgame. I took the ending of the movie as the first two players guessing wrong and the third guesses it correctly, end game, credits.
Love that idea!
Ken Johns I just showed this to my kids and I set it up like that as well. I saw this in the theater when I was a kid in 1985 (I loved the game and made my parents take me opening weekend) and my local theater had the Peacock ending. For years and years and years that’s all I knew, despite trying to get my parents to take me to another theater with a different ending (they did not want to watch it again - lol).
That's exactly what I thought!
Nice! Headcanon accepted.
I have to say that never really occurred to me … but I FREAKIN' LOVE IT !!!
I feel like I'll never watch this again without thinking about this interpretation, and I am absolutely fine with that.
I believe these belong to you, Sir …
_PROPS™_
"Wait a minute.....then who did I kill?!"
".....my butler"
"Awww shucks"
I had a friend who used to swear that it looks like he originally said 'shit' then it was dubbed over as shucks later. I pointed out to him that there are no other parts where they swear like that and no obvious signs of dubbing but he still clung to that idea for years.
Honestly the only part I never understood.
Magicman1625 Why?
Well I was confused not by the line itself but by how the man could possibly be his butler.
Magicman1625 Oh, Well have you seen the size of that building? He probably paid him lots.
"Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?"
"You don't need any help from me."
"That's right."
I've seen this movie dozens of times over the past 25 years and STILL laugh my ass off at that exchange.
LMFAO yes!!!
Yep completely.
This a movie that if it is one I just have to stop what I am doing and watch it. I laugh every time. In fact it seems to get funnier BECAUSE I know when the jokes are coming if that makes sense.
"Long story short!" "Too late!"
Love this movie, for me everything worked.
I said the "too late" bit to my mother when I was a teenager, and she died laughing. She had never heard that before. To this day she says that's one of the funniest things she's ever heard. I told her I got it from "Clue," but she still hasn't seen the movie.
I quote this all the time
I once accidentally said this to my 7th grade social studies teacher. He would have been mad but he couldn't hide the fact that he found it funny. I was mortified, as it just slipped out instinctually.
To this day, when people say “to make a long story short," I think in my head, "too late."
This, among many, many other lines from movies ("Surely you're kidding!" | "I'm not, and don't call me Shirley.")have become staples of my friends and family, and meeting those who also reply with the cult classic quotes always warms my heart.
That being said, I grew up with Clue on VHS, and I watched Clue religiously, before I knew who Mel Brooks was, before I'd ever seen Airplane! or Blazing Saddles. Tim Curry was, for the longest time, the *only* actor's name I knew, and I tended to confuse other actors with him. When I was younger, I thought Tim Curry was the Die Hard guy. Of course, now I know it's Tom Hanks.
Haha same!
I don’t just think it, I say it.
@@Stormprobe Same here. I used to work with a guy that would say "to make a long story short" all the time, and I just couldn't help myself.
Same
It’s never a bad movie with Tim Curry.
Every Tim Curry Movie is Masterpiece.
Tim Curry is a Legend.
All Hail Tim Curry.
TIM GODDAMN CURRY!!!!!
Tim Curry is also in Legend.
I dunno, The Shadow was pretty bad and largely boring.
Matrim42 It didn't have enough Tim Curry.
Thats "TIM MOTHERF****N CURRY!!!"
ALL HAIL CURRY
I always interpreted the movie as if a group of people were playing the game off-screen. The first two endings would be incorrect "guesses" about how the murder happened, like how someone might guess in the board game. While the third ending was the true solution/reveal.
yeees thought the same
Guessing in clue?
@@Eshtian Happens if you are worried that someone else is closer to a 'sure' answer than you are--you might risk it if you've got two out of three elements pinned down, and have eliminated some, but not all, of the possibilities in the third.
The Wadsworth shower scene is still one of my favorite visual gags of all time.
I have too many favourite visual gags. I know one I love that never made the edit. Harvey Korman strapped to the Nurse Ratchets ceiling in bondage gear. High Anxiety.
"If the killer is in here just LOOK OUT" has so far kept me from being murdered in my home. I can never really know if I would have survived this long without it.
I love the word play in this movie! My favorite:
"Why would he threaten to kill you in public?"
"I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her."
Or what about "No you did or no you didn't?"
Syntactic ambiguity.
Linguistics teachers should use it more often.
That's one of my fave lines in it. Up there with:
"What are you afraid of, a fate worse than death?"
"No! Just death, isn't that enough?"
@@garfieldbrooks6126 *slams glass on fire place* PLEASE!
@@garfieldbrooks6126 Both! Or neither!
"It's a free country, don't you know that?"
"I didn't know it was that free."
And then Mr. Green's face when the cop looks at him.
"I'm going home and sleeping with MY WIFE!" *cue triumphant music*
Lenny was awesome at the end of the movie. And how many know what I am talking about? LOL
I’m going to Albuquerque to make my brothers life a living hell
*grabs space blanket
I´m gay and I really love how the revelation that he is not gay is portrayed as this glorius and heroic moment JAJAJAJAJA WTF people really react that way nowdays.
@@sugar4155 As an extremely proud 🏳️🌈 I laugh because that's the McCarthy era "communism was just a red herring" (but they were also still trying to destroy anything outside of the heteronormative spectrum).
I feel like he yells that very very loud for show "everything I did was undercover work boys!"
People who believe that about mr. Green can keep that belief.
We have "But I'm a Cheerleader" and "I Love You Phillip Morris". Yep. Having a wife TOTALLY makes him straight. 🙄🤣
@@sugar4155 Curiously, I remember someone breaking down the realistic options of the three endings, and it's Ms. Scarlet as the killer that's most likely as the others bank on other people knowing the secret passages existed. Yvette easily could've informed her employer about the secret passages beforehand.
This means the 'final' ending isn't canon and thus Mr. Green is still gay.
About Leslie Anne Warren, as a kid, I remember thinking I could not *wait* to grow up so I can wear a dress like Miss Scarlett, not just the physical dress, but how she carried herself in it. I loved her commanding presence and how she slunk her body in that gorgeous gown. She owned every bit of that look and that part. :DD
That snatched waist! The pale green shrug! The jewelry!
Carrie fisher was supposed to do that role, but she had to go to rehab! So her understudy- Warren - got it instead now
@@ksaraf23 yea...we all watched the video 🙄
The corset was very uncomfortable. Much like the one Morticia's actor has to wear. Probably "ok" to wear on a special night out. But not something you'd want to do every day.
Not bad for a former Cinderella 😂
I just re-watched the movie again (this is all your fault, you know) and I realized something: Clue is in real-time.
From the start of the film to the end, there are no "time jumps". Wadsworth says the police will be there in an hour, it's an hour until they show up (not counting time from the other endings). People move from room to room in a realistic amount of time it would take them to walk. It's incredibly rare for a film to do that and the only other ones I can think of are either much more strongly tied plot-wise to their time limit or they're shot to appear to be one take.
The only time skip cut I could find in the entire film is the third ending at the "Monkey's Brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC" part, there's a jump from the hallway to the dining room rather than the franting running around of the other scenes.
That's some of the fun of the movie to me. you get a feeling like you could actually be standing there in the house watching them all walk and run back and forth past you in real time for the full hour and change that the story takes place.
I’ve seen this movie a gazillion times and never ever noticed this!! Superb point and observation!!!
I think Fargo had a real time moment when he mentions a time in the diner iirc...
I didn't realize this either!!
That's a great point!! I never quite realized it, but I know it's true. Great observation there!!
“Can you keep a secret?”
“Yeah?”
‘So can I.”
Loved this review of one of my favourite movies!
Classic movie. Cult classic!! "LET US IN....LET US IN....LET US OUT...LET US OUT!!!"
yea its a film thats a classic and when isaw it didntmind it i donbtmind tim curry and christopher lloyd as actors tho
Rhom Campbell I’ve been shot, I’ve been shot!
You could of killed me!! I could have been killed!!
Rhom Campbell those are my favorite lines!
"That's what we are trying to find out, who killed Mr. Body, where, and with what"
This line kills me every time!
*Insert Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme*
Lee Ving was also in a movie called DUDES, that stars Jon Cryer, Daniel Roebuck.., with an appearance by the Red Hot Chili Pepper's FLEA.
"I am your singing telegram," had me and my friends in stomach-hurting laughter when we first watched it... comedies are not made for critics.
I haven't watched it in years and this is the only line I ever remember!
It's hard to recall it all as it's "all too SHOCKING"
As a critic I love this movie
When I was a kid I loved the singing telegram not just because it was funny, but because I love the Go-Gos!!
Same here!!!!
“Mrs. Peacock was a man?”
SLAP
SLAP
Would anyone care for fruit or dessert?
I just used that quote and a link to that scene on TH-cam with my coworkers, and it brought me here! Fabulous topic and NICELY covered. Well done!
AHEM - Slap. Slap. Snap.
@@bushbasher85 "But one of us wasn't here. Neau!"
"'Neau'?"
"Neau."
@@joeday4293 😂😂😂.
As an old person who was in her early 20's when this movie came out, I just want to clear a couple of things. Theater gimmicks were not a thing in the 80's. That was one of the things that made this movie unique, the different endings was almost an homage to an art form outside the movie experience; Madeline Kahn was well known for not only Blazing Saddles, but also Young Frankenstein; Martin Mull was very well known as a comedic genius having been associated with The Smother Brothers, Johnathan Winters, and more importantly, the TV Show "Mary Hartman Mary Hartman" and how easy it is to forget his truly masterpiece song, "White Man Blues", that came out the year before; While Christopher Lloyd may have only been known as Reverend Jim from, "Taxi", he did win 2 Emmy's for that role while turning it from a walk-on to a regular character; and while Michael McKean did have familiarity from his role on, "Laverne & Shirley", he was equally well-known for his role in counter-culture influence. in "This Is Spinal Tap". In my opinion, this is why the movie is a cult classic: because it had non-mainstream comedians who were well known for taking gentle but firm pokes at mainstream. And then to top it off, you have Tim Curry, Dr. Frankenfurter, as the centerpiece and ending the film with Howard Hesseman, who was most famous as Dr. Johnny Fever from "WKRP in Cincinatti". The reason art becomes cult classics is because it is too forward thinking for mainstream. "Clue" didn't take itself seriously. It was made for shear fun. Fortunately, a group of fans who "get it" keep it alive and eventually, mainstream catches up. Cult Classics are the wheels that keep us moving forward.
This was perfection. Beautifully said. I also remember Martin Mull and Eileen Brennan from FM, a movie that gets overlooked.
Everyone was either someone, or on their way to being someone.
Well said.
Just a quick point re: Christopher Lloyd - Clue also benefitted from him being Doc Brown in Back to the Future, which had just come out that summer (I believe it was the July 4th weekend release).
But overall, you’re right. These were names that brought a smile to people’s faces just hearing they were in it. People went in already laughing, knowing some of the humor would be dumb, or too slapstick, but they simply wanted to have a good time. It wasn’t highbrow - it was silly fun and on that level it succeeded tremendously.
All of this. I'm almost 50 ... (is that what people do at 49, say "almost-50?" anyway, i digress) I *liked* that it had multiple endings but really didn't care which one they showed in any of the times I saw it. I went for Curry and Kahn.
“Your souls are in danger”
“Our LIVES are in danger ya beatnik”
*slams door”
Colonel Mustard (looks in Study): Just checking.
Mrs. Peacock: Everything all right?
Colonel Mustard: Yep. Two corpses. Everything's fine.
traviswall1982 my mother’s favorite line. 😂
The Rayvolution my 2nd after the "I'M NOT SHOUTING!"/candlestick moment.
One of my favorite lines too 🤣🤣❤
I like the "if you want to know who killed Mr.body I did it in the hall with the revolver."
Or when they stepped over the corpses like it was routine lmao. Didn't get that one till I was an adult.
"Take em away chief. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife. ;)"
* shake rattle and roll starts playing *
Swift Shock perfect song for that movie!
Mrs Peacock was a man!?
That was an awesome line! 😺
And I love it how in every single ending, Mr. Green was right: he didn't do any of the murders except shoot Mr. Boddy in the true ending."But if you wanna know who really killed Mr. Boddy, I did... in the hall... with the revolver."
I don't care what anyone else says, this will always be one of my favorite movies.....& yes, I absolutely LOVE Tim Curry. :-)
As you should.
I agree:)
I love Tim Curry and I've watched clue at least a hundred times and it still makes makes me laugh:)
Mine too you said it best
Amen sister
There was also a Psych episode that parodies Clue and that’s where I first even heard of it. I liked the Psych episode so I eventually checked out the movie and absolutely loved it. I laughed so hard and got so many references that Psych made.
INCLUDING a reference from "American Duos," where they convinced Curry to do the "no" thing.
"Is this even a good movie or--"
Yes. Yes it is. It is a very good movie. Nothing further.
Only bad part about it was having to chase down which theaters were showing which of the endings in order to see the whole thing. So glad that they included them all on the VHS and DVD releases. =)
@@jamesanthony8438 oh wow that sounds like a nightmare! I bet people went on thinking the specific ending they watched was the right one for the longest time!!
@inyrui Oh wow, it's almost like it's a comedy movie, based off of a board game, and that is making fun of how convoluted and stupid mystery movies can be. Please, enlighten us with your other incredible thoughts, such as water being a liquid, or air being necessary to live, or eyes being needed to see
@inyrui As much as I love this movie, I think you hit the nail on the head by pointing out that the clues go nowhere. They really don't. I've always struggled to articulate what I thought was the movies weakness. Yet it remains a clever farce with a stellar cast and some pretty fantastic set design and costuming.
@inyrui It really can't, what can be picked apart is the way you are looking at the movie. This movie is a COMEDY and a SPOOF, it is not a mystery movie. The movie has great writing as a comedy movie that is spoofing mystery movies. It does not have good writing as a mystery movie, because it isn't one. I never said it being a board game based movie means it can have bad writing, I didn't say that because it doesn't have bad writing. The whole point of the multiple endings "gimmick" is literally showing why you're point of there "not being enough clues" is fucking intentional. The endings are presented as basically "the answer is that it can be anyone" which is directly making fun of "mystery" movies and shows that give half assed clues and red herrings the entire time until finally it's revealed that random side character #4 was the killer the entire time. Do not get mad at me just because you completely missed the point of the damn movie.
"......and monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC"
"...is that what we ate? Errrrppp"
My sister was convinced until I rewound it and played it for her again, that they said monkey bread. :)
My dear departed friend and avid Clue fan would spring that quote out at any given time. :)
@@andercert70 Yeah, I used to do that too.
That’s disgusting
Don't watch "Temple of Doom" then. :)
I never knew that was a set. I figured it was just a mansion that was redressed with the tiles and period furniture (mostly because of the upstairs areas and the secret passages seemed built "out" of the walls instead of flush with them). That blows my mind they were able to do that much on a soundstage. Nothing on that set looks cheap or fake with the usual cut corners you see.
TheAbstruseOne yeah I totally believed it was in a house!
I'm a child of the 80s so I grew up with this movie on home video. I practically wore out a tape watching it so much.
It wasn't until I went to college in the mid-ish 90s that I found another person that not only KNEW "Clue" but loved it and could pick up my references.
I didn't even have the video - I recorded it off a local TV station. It took about 15 years before I realized that had been edited for time and content (Professor Plum pinching Miss Scarlet's ass when they arrive at the house was, unsurprisingly, removed from the TV version).
I absolutely LOVE Clue. My wife does not. Since she is clearly wrong I still put it in the player for the family once a year.
You are a good husband/father
Get a new wife
ByloBand I can relate. I absolutely LOVE Clue!!!! My hubby does not. Since he is clearly wrong, I have a 2nd copy of it up at our cabin and play it every other weekend for him to suffer through 😋 LOL I think it’s starting to grow on him......
I'm late to the party here, but I've loved this movie for years. Even as a kid, I always took the "lame jokes" and jokes not landing to BE the joke. That it was funnier to see someone try to be funny and fail, rather than to just be funny. I always thought it was totally intentional, and that it was meant to be corny.
I am pretty sure you are right! I always felt that way too...as a matter of fact, I never once thought the jokes were lame or outdated. They were the characters. And they put alot of "character" in each one. Clue is a serious favorite of mine for how unique it seemed to be
Ditto....I'm 45 and saw this in the theaters, but had my mind blown once I saw all the endings tied up later. But I too thought all the actors were in on the gag.
I saw it first on VHS and found out about the theater "gimmick" later. I thought it was pretty cool, since I had never heard of any other movie that may end differently, depending on where and when you see it, but apparently the critics of the time disagreed. 🙂
That's how I felt about it too. It was that awkward humor where the characters come out just looking like idiots, but in a good way that's endearing.
I agree with all of you! I owned Clue on VHS and grew up watching it. It's what got me started on liking comedies.
Even the slower, quieter moments of the film don't feel slow, boring, or awkward to me. If I had to equate it to something else, Clue is a Dad Joke in movie format. It's even got that gimmick of using the exact same set up to tell the joke, but surprise! The punchline's different this time, kiddo!
I'd actually done a "book report" on the movie, on how the pauses in between the "action" scenes are meant not to build tension, but anticipation, and I've always felt that it delivers very well on both the emotional release (in the form of a new joke or someone dying) and anticlimax (in the form of the characters reacting more and more carelessly to said deaths).
My favorite joke from the movie has and likely always will be "Dada da-da da dah! I! Am. Your Singing Telegram!" **BANG**
It's such a small, inconsequential seeming moment, even a bit of a non-sequitur, and yet it also doesn't feel out of place whatsoever.
It's like how farting at a funeral is usually abrupt and disruptive, but still likely to elicit a couple shocked or surprised giggles amongst all the embarrassed glares.
I’ve always thought that Leslie Anne Warren looked a lot like Susan Sarandon
same
Well today i learned that that isn't susan sarandon....
Wow. I was seriously thinking of Susan Sarandon playing ping-pong and got so confused when she said a different name.
Yep I to thought they were one in the same 🤣
But, less sleep deprived... She's my favorite TV Cinderella.
Completely agree that the different endings work best in a row, got it in DVD, and it just works great, feels like the first ones are "the case was solved wrong", with the ending being the true solved ending
To me Clue is to murder mysteries as Creepshow is to horror. The whole feel of it is half homage, half parody, half self-aware cheesy pulp throwback. I'm aware that's 3 halfs, but that's just how much I like Clue (and Creepshow).
Meteor shit!
"The genre was just a red herring."
I see what you did there. Nice.
“PushingUpRoses did it all.”
I know, right?? Was seeing if anyone else noticed it too!! 😂😂
Tim Curry is an awesome slice of ham and we don’t deserve him.
Nah!
LEGEND
Imagine a movie with Curry and Bruce Campbell. The world would implode.
@Thomas Pickens Especially when they answered incorrectly in the parachute scene (of course ape before man! it's a numbers game.) ;)
girl you're so right...Lesley Ann Warren and then of course Tim Curry LITERALLY make this entire movie. The entire cast is amazing...but those two are the standouts and she's an insanely talented and underrated actress that deserves way more credit. This is one of my all time favorite movies
Have you seen Baja Oklahoma?
Precisely the kind of video I crave in my feed these days, always glad to get a fresh perspective on a classic.
I can’t believe I never realized that “Lee Ving” was a pun, thanks for pointing that out.
I never picked up on that either. Now I. Going to be laughing during the opening credits too lol
I made that joke as a kid. His cousin's name is... um nevermind.
And the best punk band ever
I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't realise until watching this video.
Oh my.
Madeline Kahn was a god of comic timing, delivering some of the best ever captured on film.
She is the reason I ended up going to Hofstra University... I didn't know at the time that she studied as a speech pathologist rather than for theater, but I admired her and I would not have met my husband if I didn't transfer schools... so inadvertently, Madeline Kahn is the reason I am happily married and had a great college experience. 😋
I love her voice appearing in the gaps of For He's A Jolly Good Fellow. What a screwball nutjob thing to do!!!
I was 14 when the dollar cinema had this and they swapped out the endings each day but we had no idea how many ending there were so we just went back each day for a week. We loved it, adored it. It is easily a top 10 movie of the 80's for kids my age. I am so thankful that I got to show it to my children before the became jaded by the internet.
you left out a BIG part of Clue's lasting legacy - the video rentals in the late '80s and early '90s. Every single slumber party I went to from about 1988-1993 had to have this movie. We kids of the '80s rescued this movie (and The Princess Bride) from obscurity. Without those crazy video rentals it wouldn't have aired on TV so much in the late '90s. You're welcome :)
Yep, same. I first discovered Clue by renting it on VHS in the 1990s. It's been one of my favourite movies ever since.
100% certified truth.
Amen!
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Yeah, thinking about this movie in the framework of Hbomberguy's video about "The Power of VHS" I think this movie is definitely in the category of "plays better on home video than a theater". A great movie to watch at night with some friends in a living room, maybe not the best movie to watch in a dark theater with a bunch of strangers (especially with the issue of the theatrical endings). th-cam.com/video/xbZMqS-fW-8/w-d-xo.html
To hell with the critics! I've watched this movie so many times and know some of the lines by heart. Also, some showings still do theater gimmicks.
How many times have Critics been wrong about movies? 2001 A Space Odyssey, Predator, and even Alien were all given poor reviews when they came out. Look what happened with those. Enjoyment is subjective, no one man or woman can ever talk for the majority, nor should their opinions ever be taken as gospel. After all, that is all it is, their opinion. No one can ever have a "professional" opinion on something so subjective. It is simply impossible, which completely devaluates a critics credentials.
I never really cared for critics opinions on movies. I'll be the judge of a movie I want to see and decide for myself whether it's a hit or miss.
Roger Ebert really had some shit opinions, he hated both The Thing and UHF and both of those are considered classics
I always liked this movie! Glad to see you cover it. =)
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What!?
I- I just didn’t expect that.
Let's also remember that according to the actual end of the movie (actual in this sense meaning after this the credits roll) its revealed Mr Green was role playing as a plant. So, the actor was playing a character who was playing a character...in a comedy... of course it's going to be over the top and outlandish. He's trying to seem the least threating to the blackmailer/killer in order to catch him/her/them, and not get bumped off himself.
Who ever heard of a Green plant
I burst into laughter at “I am the singing telegram. Bang!” That made me laugh so damn hard as a child. It’s so abrupt. Great video.
Jane Weidlin from the Go-Go's!
WayRad that was actually my phone notification for the longest time! 😝
My mom laughed at the "he's on everybody else's why shouldn't he be on mine" line, and then we paused the movie so she would tell us the story of J. Edgar Hoover. :)
BWF
I howled in the theater too! And I loved Jane!
Same for me! I always burst into laughter as a kid and all of my friends do too :)
I believe one critical aspect you missed in CLUE building its post-theatrical following is VHS/video rentals. As someone who worked for many years in that business, I can confirm this phenomenon; I was there for it. And as someone who is obviously older, I saw it multiple times in the theater(s) so I could see all the endings, loved it then and then reeeeeally loved it upon repeated viewings on VHS. Has been a multi-generational favorite in our family for so long.
My family also had it on VHS before it was shown on TV regularly.
There was also a throwback episode of Psych called '100 Clues' (it was the show's 100th episode) that had many of the original stars from the movie in it. It's worth checking out.
I'm so glad someone else has seen the Psych episode 100 clues. Such a bingeworthy series.
oh wow thanks
I think if they remake Clue, it’s gonna be an interesting time. Ryan Reynolds would make a great Wadsworth and I think they could absolutely write a new movie that keeps the same tone and is basically a spiritual successor. The bigger question is who would we cast as the guests since Mr Boddy seems like it would be a good way to have a director cameo. “He’s the reason we are all here!” - Director walks into the room as a subtle 4th wall break.
I hope they do NOT remake it. All these remakes and reboots are an obvious cash-grab and more evidence Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. It also suggests the original isn’t good enough.
If the original is good and they remake it, either you have two movies equally good and everyone wins or you have a scenario where one is vastly better than the other and only with the new context can you see the flaws or brilliance of the other.
You are creating an entirely false narrative that states that the original wasn't good enough. What it actually states that the movie was good enough to warrant remaking it with a modern lens. Why do you think that Godzilla is remade so often? It's a good movie and a great concept that sticks around with people and remaking the movies with better technology and from a more modern perspective allows a new generation to be introduced to the movies.
Jumanji is a prime example of this: A fantastic movie with a sequel that is not required, but is still a good addition to the original. It takes a good movie and modernized the concept. The original was good and the remake was good, and they coexist perfectly because they didn't just do "Jumanji but again" kinda like Zathura did.
I'm just saying, bad movies don't get remakes or reboots because they were not good enough to keep a place in public memory at all. A good movie getting a bad reboot just solidifies that the movie was good in the first place and a good movie getting a good reboot is only beneficial because it can introduce people to the old movie and get a new generation of fans.
As cool as RR is, i don't think he'd make a good Wadsworth. In my opinion his emploi just doesn't work with the character (at least, compared to Tim Curry's portrayal), he's just too... I don't know, modern? Youthful? Random?
I had the knee jerk reaction of "No ! NO !", so I think it's clear I'm not excited. I'm always weary of remakes and I cannot stand Ryan Reynolds.
I hated her so much, fla...flames, flames, burning, on the sides of my face, breathing...heaving breaths...
No there are 2 shots that hit the chandelier thats 1 plus 2 plus 1 plus 1!
she said heaving breasts
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 Whaaat I heard breathing all this time XD
This is my favorite line!
Apart from the other quotes here, I like the one that goes: “Oh, who cares, that guy doesn’t matter, let him stay, locked up for another half an hour. The police will be here by then, and there are 2 dead bodies in the study!!!!!”
When she said it, her acting was so genuine that it felt like she was in actual distress. It was executed perfectly and the first half of the line rhymes.
I always expect the last two to rhyme as well. I often fumble this line when I watch it.
I'm often heard exclaiming, "NO, it's a VICIOUS LIE!"
"What is the con-CLUE-sion?" Good one! The problem with Murder She Wrote, is that she always found that button on the floor, just as she's about to solve the case. No episodes that I remember ever gave you enough information to solve the mystery, until the last moment. In some ways, I appreciated that approach, but I also liked stories, that drop clues for you, and allow you to make your own conclusion. The downside is they you might eventually end up guessing endings with more frequency, as you get more used to the episodes/chapters of your favorite mystery.
Me when I read bad reviews for this film: : it it the f it flam flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing breath heaving breaths. Heaving breaths...
Funniest part of the movie for me lol
sad thing was, as Martin Mull surmised, was that she actually was having a stroke, not adlibbing.
Don't worry about it. It's a free country.
I didn't know it was that free.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going home to sleep with my wife."
LOL YES! I love that "twist"
Actually, that line made me wince. The fake gay man feels compelled to explain to the group that he loves the ladies. I get the joke. I just wish they had written a better line.
That's one of the dated elements.
@@rkhound247 Most of the dated jokes are actually really topical... for the late 50's or early 60's when the story is set. That's the joke. This guy just spent an entire night in a house of psychos pretending to be a halfway camp homosexual. He got tired of it. But the delivery was at such an odd moment it comes across as out of nowhere and over the top and insecure. That makes it freaking hilarious.
Best line ever lolol
It is strange to think of this movie not being well received. This is easily my favorite movie EVER. I watch it regularly. I can quote this whole movie from beginning to end. I even got my daughter to watch it, and she loved it as much as I do. When ever I find out someone has never seen this movie, I always set out to get them over to watch it with me. Just a classic movie!
just my two cents: i dont think Clue needs a remake because I think it already has the perfect modern successor in Knives Out.
Sharp humor, over-the-top characters, gorgeous murder-mansion setting, snappy dialogue, killer slapstick gags, an actually well-constructed and subversive murder mystery........clue would be proud. i dont think any remake could embody what made Clue special better than Knives Out did.
I loved Knives Out! It's less game board restricted than Clue, but definitely has some dramatic campy similarities. Even though it's gotten good reviews, I feel like most people haven't heard of it. I definitely think It'll have future cult status.
Harlan: You've got to climb up the trellis. Make sure nobody sees you.
Marta: You've got to be kidding.
Harlan: I am not.
They even referenced Clue in that movie, which was great.
knives out was shitty and predictable. i was just glad when it finally ended and i could watch something good.
ooh you’re fun
Knives Out ain't a board game (yet)
The endings weren't randomized, at least not where I grew up. I remember seeing on the theater marquee "Clue #1, Clue#2", etc so that you could go and specifically see all of the different endings. I don't know if this was just my local theater, and if the ending numbers were standardized by the studio (I expect they were, so that the theater managers could keep their inventory straight.)
I always loved this film, from the very beginning. It wasn't until the internet that I learned of its poor reception.
That sounds like a good system. I'd hate to watch the same ending multiple times because of bad luck.
I remember something similar, but it was A, B, C
I always thought it was made as a self-aware semi parody of mystery film tropes. And in that it was good.
which is why what we need isn't a remake, but a successor. another clever self-aware parody, that can be ADVERTISED as 'another Clue' all they want. that's how they need to be doing these things.
when the audience wants more, they mean _another course of the same meal_ not the same entree again but now it's cold.
@@KairuHakubi I thought Knives out was almost good at this. The humor was there... But they lacked REALLY good jokes though. And they lacked the necessary amount of jokes.
Clue was my brand of comedy and it still makes me belly laugh to this day.
Clue was bloody brilliant, not because it was a great cinematic masterpiece, but (as you pretty much said) because it was just a ridiculously fun movie that had an excellent cast and a beautiful and true to the game set. I liked the cornball jokes and innuendo when I was younger (I was 17 when the movie came out) but I agree that it was best with the three different endings done as they were on the VHS tapes and DVDs, sequentially.
Another movie that reminds me of Clue by its fun ridiculousness with a great cast is Big Trouble (not Big Trouble in Little China, which is excellent in its own rights, just Big Trouble with Tim Allen and Rene Russo).
Patrick Bird Was that Big Trouble the movie based on the novel Big Trouble by humor columnist Dave Barry?
If I remember, the release date had to be pushed way back because of 9-11.
The movie was about a bomb on a plane I think and some thought it should not come out so close to 9-11.
I can't recall if I saw the movie.
I read the novel, Dave Barry's first stab at writing a novel.
I liked the book back then.
I need to see the movie.
@@toddvandell85Yup, that is the one. I liked the movie more than the book because at times the book felt a little character-cluttered and the movie kept the story going along without as many draggy parts as the book had. The book was still good, but I did like the movie more. :-)
And, yes, the movie's release was delayed and then turned into a smaller release with negligible marketing once it finally did come out due to the storyline possibly being too upsetting so soon after 9/11. Which is a darn shame since it deserved a better fate too. It had an excellent cast with a lot of recognizable name actors, even if not all big name actors, like Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Johnny Knoxville, Dennis Farina, Zooey Deschanel, Patrick Warburton, Sofia Vergara, and others. See it if you can. I love it. :-)
@@thatpatrickguy3446 I will. I think I saw it. But no rule saying I can't watch it again...if I can find a copy.
@@toddvandell85 I found a copy easily enough at a used bookstore near where I live when a friend wanted a copy. Hope you can find a copy of your own!
@@thatpatrickguy3446 Thank you. I have a soft spot for the book even though I lost my copy a few years ago in one of my storage unit auctions.
But I was a huge Dave Barry dévoté.
I tried for a time to buy every book he published, even those that were just collections of his syndicated newspaper columns.
Then Big Trouble came out and it was Dave's first attempt at fiction.
I was intrigued immediately.
He had friends who were novelists and Dave was always poking fun of his own humor column and writing and dismissing himself as the guy who writes about boogers (Boogers Are My Beat).
Or something equally juvenile or whatever.
So Big Trouble was his first stab at fiction and I wanted to see how he fared, writing a novel in a slightly more serious vein than his humor columns tended to be.
And, I liked it. He did a decent job, for a first foray into fiction.
He's had other novels I've liked better, but Big Time was kinda cool.
His Christmas novella, though, that one kinda broke my heart and brought a tear.
So for me, I liked that one a tiny bit better.
I like a novel or a story that touches my heart.
Especially unexpectedly.
(Although there was a surprising, unexpected moment of tenderness in a different book of his where I had not expected one at all: Dave Barry in Cyberspace.
Those little moments of tenderness that seem to sneak up on you, when you're totally unaware you've let your guard down and suddenly there's a tear rolling down your cheek because something just tugged your heart and made you feel something you were totally unprepared to feel.)
Anyway. Those books leave a lasting impression, usually a very favorable one for me.
Tricky Business was also a good story, as was The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog (2006).
That was the Christmas novella that got to me, with a little unexpected poke in the heart.
Dave has co-written several novels for young people with author friend Ridley Pearson, who was in the Rock Bottom Remainders rock band with Dave and several published authors including, at various points, Stephen King and Amy Tan, amongst others.
"So to make a long story short (too late!)" Clue is a sentimental favorite of mine as I too grew up playing the board game. Because of that, the characters didn't need to be fully fleshed out as they are representing plastic game pieces with colorful names! For that reason I think the character development was spot on in the movie, not too much or too little. Side point, I was 7 when this movie came to theaters and I remember the hype about 3 different endings and that made me want to go over and over just to experience all 3. The gimmick worked on me!
i just wonder how did Wadsworth/Mr. Body know they would all kill somebody?
Same . I was 17 and I thought it was a marketing genius.
One of my faves. Cannot imagine a remake with a cast this perfect.
I saw Clue when I was 14 and immediately LOVED EVERYTHING! Ms. Scarlett & Mrs. White were FIERCE from head to heel. Plus god damn this movie was hilarious as hell! I was instantly obsessed with Clue and enrolled my brother into my obsession! We watched it over & over & over!
F them critics!
I still quote "Let us in, let us in! Let us out, let us out! " all the time.
“Close the blast doors”
“Open the blast doors, Open the blast doors”
I first saw this movie at a slumber party, probably very late 80s and i loved it then and I love now. I hate when critics judge movies for something they aren't... it was a silly comedy pretending to be serious at times. Thanks for the positive review and the nostalgia!
I grew up in the 90's, and it was the PERFECT slumber party movie. I made my friends watch it on my birthday year after year, and eventually we started devising our own "murder mystery" games to act out and solve. I don't know if there are any other films that give me such happy nostalgia.
Yea... Siskel and Ebert are BOTH guilty of that... they hated Johnny Dangerously because they didn't see it for what it was... a homage to the old gangster movies, not a direct spoof...
Madeline Kahn was great she passed away much to young.
My parents took us to see this when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure we saw the third ending. We were given character sheets that were directly pulled from the board game, along with golf pencils, to encourage us to solve the mystery while watching. But being 10, I set the sheet aside & just enjoyed it. Any remake will be terrible - what made, still makes, this movie for me, is the chemistry between this cast. Still one of my favorites!
"He won't be driving home, officer. I promise you that!"
It's hard to imagine seeing this movie with only one ending and leaving the theater thinking "Well, that was enjoyable." Even if it was the third ending. Even if they showed 2 out of 3. It just wouldn't feel like a whole movie. I like that they screwed themselves over by trying to triple dip like that, though. It set a good precedent... or at least it failed to set a bad one.
My favorite line, the one I quote most often, mostly to tease my happily unmarried sister, "Men should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable."
GURL THAT LINE IS EVERYTHING 🤣💅🏼 lmaoo
I used that line once on a university English essay about the Canterbury Tales.
Loved this movie as a kid, still love it. "I am your singing telegram" *gunshot* lol
that was my favorite scene. I remember watching it daily on HBO and that scene always made me laugh
Chad Garrett Door slams shut. (>_
That scene still cracks me up
That was Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Gos.
you do NOT know how many times me and my younger brother rewinded that scene on the video cassette when it came out, and laughed our fuckin asses off
Mrs. Peacock is so great as the movie goes on. She’s completely hysterical because bodies keep dropping then she moves on to being indifferent because she’s seen enough. Mrs. White’s freak out is the best.
I like the idea of differents endings. It would probably be more well received today for it's originality!
I love Clue! The cast was outstanding and most of the jokes do land. Being older, the jokes age better for me than for a younger viewer maybe. Plus, I would watch Tim Curry recite the ingredients off a cereal box!
I feel the same way. I watched a godawful ABC sitcom with Tim Curry called Over The Top. The only reason why I watched every episode was because of Tim. He has that kind of presence.
That singing telegram who meets an unfortunate end is played by Jane Weidlin from the Go Go's!
I thought it was Georgia Engle from Mary Tyler Moore Show for all these years. Oops.😲
She's also great as the Aerobics-obsessed Joan of Arc in BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE!
One of the important moments for clue to gaining its cult status, is that for a lot of people it was one of the first VHS tapes they had owned and it was ubiquitous in people's collections.
Similarly how the Matrix really showed off what a dvd player could do and also became ubiquitous in peoples collections.
I remember Gladiator being a big dvd draw too.
And I'm pretty sure that was before blu ray.
Police: All right! Who dunnit?
Mr. Green: I did! With the revolver in the hallway.
Aaron Hart They all did it....take em away Chief, I’m going home and sleep with my wife
I grew up watching Clue. It's a well beloved classic.
"But zen zee knife will go fuh-zehr eentoo 'er back!"
ahhaah classic
My freinds and I say this exact line to each other on a regular basis!
What I love most about Clue is the over-the-top camp. The acting is exaggerated, the script is cheesy, the dialog is chock full of innuendos, double-entendres, and wordplay. (I am not overlooking the gorgeous set, it is totally believable that this house could exist in the real world, and every time I rewatch I notice "new" details in the background.) To me, that is the endearing charm of Clue. I enjoy all of the characters, even the bit parts. I can't imagine Wadsworth being played by anyone other than Tim Curry, much like I can't imagine Frank N. Furter being played by anyone other than Tim Curry. He truly embraces his roles in a way that makes them unique and memorable!
One problem with most remakes is that they are changed so much from the original that the two (or more) versions share little in common aside from the title. If studios are going to change so much of the original content, they should consider a new title and call it something new.
The other problem with most remakes is the fact that studios have been spending far too much time re-imagining preexisting intellectual property instead of coming up with something new and refreshing.
To the critics who hated on Clue at the time I have this to say: "What the hell were you smoking?!"
The same critics hated 2001 A Space Odyssey, Predator, Alien, and many other cult classics. Almost like their opinion isn't worth shit and that enjoyment of something is completely subjective that no one man or woman can have a professional opinion on enjoyment.
They had no sense of humor. Haha!
Mid 1980s, so crack most likely :)
The movie is to short and doesn't work unless you see all three endings in the order presented when adapted for VHS. The theatre gimmick idea of different theatre getting one of three different endings was a terrible idea. Thankfully anyone under fifty likely didn't suffer through the theatre gimmick debacle.
Critics always seem to hate the good movies and promote the crap movies so I'm not surprised.
Clue is one of my favs. The actors really make the film.
So... here's a perspective from an immigrant's point of view. When I first came to America at the age of 7 (and barely understood English), I didn't understand most of the jokes in this movie. But it was still fun. I saw it not really as a movie, but more like a play that was recorded and released as a movie. Even not understanding some of the jokes, it was a fun movie to watch. As I grew to know English and more of American culture (and finally understood phrases like "red herring" and understood that singing telegrams were a thing), I gained a greater appreciation for the lines and subtle humor in the movie. The humor wasn't loud or obvious. If you got it, you got it. If you didn't, you didn't. Which I appreciated greatly compared to the constant laugh tracks on sitcoms telling you when to laugh. Of course, it's not like a revolutionary movie or anything, but it is a decent, fun movie that I've enjoyed over and over.
But I have to agree, if I had only seen one of the two first endings, I would think this is a bad movie. IMO, at it's heart, this is a theatrical production of a sitcom where the situation happens to be a murder mystery. Without a conclusion, it all falls flat. Plus, the real ending is, again IMO, 90% of the charm of the movie because *Spoiler Alert* while we were trying to figure out who the murderer was, the funny thing was, we were all right and all wrong at the same because everyone (except for Mr. Green, and coincidentally my favorite character to be in the Clue board game) was the murderer. Which is doubly funny because really, if you play the board game enough times, this is also true.
This movie was ahead of its time. That’s the only way I can understand why it got bad reviews. I still find it hilarious.
This movie is actually my introduction to Tim Curry. He will forever be "the Clue Butler" to me.
I even remember hearing people talk about Tim Curry and not knowing who he was, despite absolutely adoring him.
ZipplyZane he’s ALWAYS Ms. Hannigan’s no good brother Rooster to me! I hear you though!
Clue is and always has been one of my absolute favorite comedies. As well as one of my absolute favorite board games. The cast was brilliant and I don't agree at all that the jokes didn't land. The banter is very fast paced in places and there are many punchlines delivered throughout each joke within the dialogue. I also disagree about Lesley Ann Warren being the standout. As I said before, the entire cast was brilliant but I think the standout was Eileen Brennan. They way in most scenes (the dinner table excepted) she said so much without using words. Her facial expressions and body language did all the speaking for her.
I think it suffered from the fact that critiques like movies to fit into nice little boxes called genres and Clue doesn't really fit into any known genre. It's just Clue. A movie based off a board game.
I personally hate it when people use genres and genre conventions to judge a piece of media. It's not like all the genres in the world became a thing at the same time hundreds of thousands of years ago. They're guidelines made by people who like to categorize things in order to talk about them. They're not rules.
The purpose of genres is to find an audience. Without a genre, a movie only appeals to a very small group of people (and many of those that would like it may not even watch it, since it won't be considered part of the genres they enjoy). Thus, when something is considered part of a certain genre, it is judged based on the criteria of that genre, because those are the kinds of people that will be watching it.
It's a caper movie. It fits very well in that genre.
I would say the closest thing to a remake of this would be “Knives Out.”