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Would you believe someone who tells you he has seen Jeff Goldblum wearing a tutu? Well you better do because just maybe that someone has just seen "The tall guy" - or he's halluscinating.In 1989 this piece of british humor was released to the wild with Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson and Jeff Goldblum as the main cast. Let me put it like this. The movie was not really necessary but Jeff made it work!
Dexter King (Jeff Goldblum) tries to make his life in the London entertainment scene and somehow he ended up years ago doing his part in a show of Ron Anderson (Rowan Atkinson) who is the star of the city when it comes to comedy but actually an arrogant ass when it comes to real life. Dexter realizes that he is about 40 now and his job is to stand in the background on stage, not noticed by anyone and he also realizes that he wants more in life. His last relationships didn't really work so he is Single and totally unknown as an actor. Suddenly he meets the nurse Kate and life seems to change when he falls in love.
Maybe the best part of the movie is the musical parody when Dexter later starres in "The elephant" - maybe you should just see it by urself, I just give you a line of one of the songs: "Somewhere up in heaven there's an angel with big ears!"
Jeff Goldblum's performance is outstanding as always, who would have known that he could play comedy just as well as serious movies!
Even if you are not so much in 90s humor, this movie is worth watching!
1 comment:
One of my all-time personal faves... got some really bad reviews at the time from the 'critics' but most of that was snobbery - it's a wonderfully funny and cheerful film and everyone I know who has seen it really adores it.
Whilst Richard Curtis went on to make much box-office smashing films (Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones), for me this retains the early Blackadder side of Curtis, letting it's quite offbeat, but always well observed satire take centrestage rather than being particularly slick of Hollywood oriented.
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