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Ishtar [1987]

Starring: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Weston, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin
Director: Elaine May
Format: Anamorphic PAL
Released: 13 Sep 2004
RRP: £5.99
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Ishtar - By: The Wonder Kid, 02 Jun 2008
The critics missed the point of this film.
The humour is along the lines of "The Office" meets "Dumb & Dumber". The Rogers & Clark songs are cringingly bad, deliberately so - that is the whole point of the film. Rogers & Clark are meant to be deluded about their lack of talent (a bit like David Brent's pop video "If you don't know me by now").
They rate their song "Dangerous Business" better than anything Simon & Garfunkle have written.
It's not typical slick american one liner humour, but I found it very funny & have watched it many times.
Ignore the critics & give it a go.
It's pretty bad, but not as bad as its legend. - By: Brendan O. Clarke, 11 May 2008



Director-writer Elaine May ("The Heartbreak Kid") makes things even worse by casting Dustin as the smoothie know-it-alll & Beatty as the dumb shlump when, if anything, those roles should have been reversed. The big-budget film (50 million dollars) remains as one of the alll-time box office bombs. Though it might serve as a perverse delight for those who take pleasure in seeing a film that was not intended to be bad turn out so unforgivably bad. Its appeal is as a timeless oddity is almost assured with the advent of cheap second-hand dvds to see if it's as bad as most critics think.