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I saw this movie for the first time tonight and it's the first "Road" picture I've seen. I was expecting waaaaay better. Robert Osborn says this is the best of the Road movies. If that's true I needn't bother to see the others. The best thing about this movie is that it has a lot of songs in the first half, but that's balanced out by only one production number with dancing in the entire movie. I didn't like the movie. Neither Hope nor Crosby came across all that well, their characters weren't very charming, the movie was not funny at all, most of the dialog was just lame filler, there wasn't much action, there wasn't much spectacle. The movie wasn't what I expected. I was expecting more "Road," but there isn't much. They quickly make it to the palace and then most of the movie takes place there, until the end. I was also expecting a lot more of the famous "road" style of breaking the fourth wall, wherein the characters talk directly to the audience or comment on the plot. There was only about 4 instances of that. One of those is an example of the non-funny humor of this script: Crosby: I know all that! Hope: Yeah but the people that came in half-way through the picture don't. Crosby: You mean they missed my song? Those are two weak punchlines, but at least they are actually jokes. Much of the rest of the script doesn't even have any jokes. An example is: Crosby: Remind me to throw you a piece of cheese in the morning. (Indirectly calling Hope a rat). That's not funny at all, it barely even qualifies as a joke, but that's the kind of non-joke dialog that carries most of the movie. Many of the scenes don't even come that close to a joke, just using generic uninteresting dialog like: Crosby: Hey, whadda ya' take me for? You think that you can just throw me to the dogs? Hope: Well why not, you did it to me didn't you? Crosby: Yeah but that's because I was lookin' out for us. You're not lookin' out for nobody. Hope: Oh yeah? Well then why did I pay the check? (the above is just from my memory. It's not exact but it illustrates to you what I mean). And so on....just generic dialog with no jokes at all. My grade: A waste of time.

I wasn't sure if this DVD would still be available. It arrived very quickly in Australia in mint condition. Thank you.

The "Road" series with Bing and Bob were landmarks in realm of funny movies and Road To Morocco is, to me, by far the best of the bunch. The "boys" had really hit their stride in this one and they obviously had a lot of fun filming it. Lots of good clean laughs, a bunch of inside jokes and some plain old-fashioned fun.

THIS MOVIE IS DREDFUL. I mean, those two so-called "heros" are dirty almost the whole time. They smoke dope. They steal food. Is that funny? And their idea of "humor" is to mock old people, Arabs, women, judges, dead people, geese...even fleas. I mean, were fleas funny in 1942? I mean, there's nothing good to say about this movie except that it's funny.

The thing about these Bing and Bob road shows is that if you've seen one, you've seen them all and so it makes sense to just get the best one of the lot to see what you've missed; that one would be "The Road to Morocco". I have to admit that I didn't really like this very much the first time I watched it but surprisingly upon second viewing, I found myself appreciating the jokes a lot more and although not all of them age very well, I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that most of them did! It was also refreshing to see good acting for a change and the screenplay was deservedly nominated for an Oscar. Released at the start of World War II, you could see that they were working on a shoestring budget and rationing for scarce resources required for the war effort and so much of the "special" effects are pretty lame but I still found myself enjoying this movie overall and I can see myself watching this again and again. The picture quality is good but not great as at the beginning of the film we get lots of shots with that irritating white spots problem but these seem to reduce in frequency as the movie goes on. The sound quality is Dolby Digital Mono and so is nothing to shout about and it would have been nice if a 5.1 surround option was made available but as far as mono recordings go, the sound quality was acceptable. I also liked the bonus features and especially "Bob Hope and the Road to Success". Low budget, low tech but high on entertainment.

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You never quite know what to expect from an Ulli Lommel movie, but I found "Zodiac Killer" to be an interesting take on its subject. It is not so much about the real zodiac killer as about a modern day copycat killer (Vladimir Maksic) who befriends a writer and exper on the zodiac killer (Lommel). Yes, it's a low budget film and it shows. It's not very well filmed and there are inserts from earlier Lommel films, but I found the story to be interesting enough to make up for most of it. It is definately not as bad as Lommel's other serial killer films, "BTK Killer" and "Green River Killer".

This is a terrible film. Rented thinking it was Zodiac. It is not. Horrible story, terrible acting, especially bad directing. Do not waste your money. Must have been produced to capture money from confused viewers who think they are going to watch the movie Zodiac (like me).

I rented this thinking it was "Zodiac" with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. It was not. And this is about the most difficult to watch movie - told from the perspective of the killer. If you insist on renting this movie I suggest you drink a a fifth of scotch and watch it while doing a headstand. Then...maybe...the movie might make sense. So bad you'll be cheering the murderer.

I've spent tens of thousands of hours and even more money on my movie obsession. I've never felt compelled to write a review before. This movie is a pathetic piece of filmmaking and is so wrong in every possible way: factually incorrect, shamefully directed, horribly filmed, badly written, terribly acted, wrongfully lit, completely laughable, and a total and absolute waste of my precious time. This isn't cheesy bad; it is just plain awful. And since I'm a pretty sweet and tolerant Texas gal, I usually find SOMETHING redeeming in every movie I watch. But this was so bad that it made me feel like I was getting a brain tumor. Oh, that's right, I DO have a brain tumor, which is why I stay at home and watch movies 24 hours a day. I probably got it from watching Ulli's 1971 Zodiak movie. Don't watch it either. (Top 2 worst movies ever. Ulli, get another career!) So, for all my fellow movie addicts, please trust me on this, don't waste your time. If I weren't already sick, this movie would have cut a few years off my life anyway. Happy Trails!

Horrible beyond belief. They call the Zodiac Killer the "Z Man." My son said that the Zodiac Killer would probably come back and kill the people who created the film just because of that, not to mention how bad the movie is. We couldn't even watch past the first murder. I could do better with my digital camera and my son peeking through doorways. This movie deserves to be on a list of the worst horror films of all time. -10 stars.