American translation, and quite faithful in letter, of the Yves Robert comedy, Pardon Mon Affaire. But something has been lost. The attempt to broaden (or simplify or clarify) the humor, and thus the appeal, doesn't just cheapen it; it changes it. This is true even down to the casting level. The chiselled cover-girl visage of Kelly Le Brock (or Le Block), with her novelty-store pair of plastic lips, is a poor substitute for the elegant and feminine Anny Duperey. Le Brock is a woman only an android could love. And Gene Wilder lacks the basic normality, so well embodied by Jean Rochefort, to play the bourgeois family man in midlife crisis. It seems only natural that, as something of a Harpo Marx look-alike, he should be a Harpo Marx act-alike, too. And what else is a hot-blooded satyr going to do when he gets an eyeful of a skirt in an updraft? With Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Michael Huddleston, and Gilda Radner; directed by Wilder. (1984) — Duncan Shepherd
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