Sunday, November 25, 2018

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)


Warner Bros.
Directed by Buy Yorkin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Warner Bros.)

Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play two sets of twins switched at birth: one aristocratic and the other peasants. It is set during the French Revolution (1789 to be specific, a date you won't soon forget after seeing the movie), so the peasants are revolting and the aristocrats are on the run. There is no plot, just a stream of unrelated events that the actors try to milk for as much comedy as possible. It barely got a chuckle out of me, and I love Monty Python and all things Mel Brooks, to which this has a passing resemblance. 

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