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I have never before seen a worse movie. It is absolutely horrible. There was nothing redeeming about it - poor acting, poor directing, poor editing, crummy dialogue... need I go on? This is at the TOP of my list of "worst movies of all time." I'm surprised that MST3K didn't find a way to improve it!

Funny About Love (1990) BOMB (out of 4) Duffy Bergman (Gene Wilder) is a cartoonist who has pretty much lived his life alone just the way he likes it. This all changes when he meets Meg (Christine Lahti) and quickly falls in love. The two are married and plan on having a kid but that proves to be complicated, which leads to a series of dramatic events. FUNNY ABOUT LOVE is a film that I've heard a lot about and none of it was good. It wasn't a success at the box office, it had some pre-release editing done to it and it ended up on most critic's worst of the year list. No matter what you read about this film there's really nothing that can prepare you for how truly awful it is. This film was directed by Leonard Nimoy and it features a terrific cast but everything just goes horrendously wrong and in the end its clearly one of the worst films of the decade if not one of the worst comedies of all time. The film apparently had an entire subplot that was cut out of the film, which had Farrah Fawcett as a love interest. It's pretty clear to see that something is missing from the film as the entire movie just feels like bits and pieces are missing. The movie will be going in one direction and the next thing you know something complete different is going on. I was a little confused at what the movie was trying to do, trying to say and I was wondering if the filmmakers knew what was going on. The film starts off as a romantic comedy and then out of nowhere we get some of the most out-of-touch drama I've ever seen. Just take a look at an early sequence where Wilder's mother attacks the couple for not having children. Throughout the film there are strange bits of dialogue, a really bizarre subplot dealing with Wilder and a much younger woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) and then there's the ending, which is just downright embarrassing. The entire movie was just so poorly made and so poorly written that you couldn't help but feel a bit depressed watching it. Normally Wilder could make just about anything work but that's not the case here. He's all over the map and it's clear he didn't get too much direction. Lahti tries to do what she can but her character isn't given any favors. Out of the cast it would be Mary Stuart Masterson who comes off the best but that's not saying too much. Robert Prosky, Susan Ruttan and David Margulies are all wasted in their parts. It makes you wonder what Fawcett would have done in the film. FUNNY ABOUT LOVE is a romantic comedy that has no laugh and certainly no romance. I really don't know what went so horribly wrong with this movie but it's certainly a misfire from the word go.

I have watched this movie few times by now...such a sweet rendition of how real love feels...it's about real emotions, real feelings...and funny on top of it all! I love watching it cause it makes me laugh and cry at the same time! The way Gene Wilder expresses love and heartache is just overwhelming! It is truly a movie about life and the sweetest thing about it...with a twist of humour...which is most definitely the way we should all treat life! LOVE THIS MOVIE!

Poop! Cubing each consonant and vowel in every curse word known to man could never convey the truly execrable experience of watching this movie. My friend and I had to check the IMDB to convince us that we did not, in fact, hallucinate it. Seriously, folks -- it's that bad. Even the anal-injection scene didn't save it, nor did Gene Wilder's witty frying pantheon bit. Perhaps this is a bit unfair -- Wilder is, we hear, the Jerry Lewis of Sweden. Those Swedes just love him; maybe we're missing something. In Sweden, the government funds gigantic outdoors viewings of all six episodes of "Something Wilder." In Sweden, we hear, these events are public holidays. So maybe there's something to it -- we just don't know.

This movie is TERRIBLE. I like Gene Wilder but I have no idea what was going through his head when he decided to do this flick. The only mildly funny moment is when he describes how his mother was killed. He says she was crushed by a piano falling out of a building ala Wile Coyote. One of the worst movies i ever paid to see.

One of my favorite Gene Wilder films. This is a funny, but not side-splitting funny film,and you could say it is more sweet humor that can also be endearing. The supporting cast, especially Christine Lahti and Anne Jackson are terrific! Gene Wilder is so lovable in this movie that it will make you forget some of his sillier films.In this he plays Duffy Berman a well-known cartoonist who yearns to have a child before his 'biological clock' stops ticking.So when things don't go as he planned,his life is turned upside down with some very funny and tender moments. Give it a try if you haven't already seen it,you may be pleasantly surprised.

I've noticed a lowest common denominator here in past reviews. People watched this with the automatic assumption that this was going to be a full-blown, slapstick 'Comedy.' Nothing could be further from the truth, as this isn't the story being told. Had this been made today, it would be considered a 'Dramedy.' It's not story-driven enough to be a full-fledged drama, and it's not sophomoric enough to be a comedy. It lies somewhere in between, and that's not entirely a bad thing. The collapse of Duffy's marriage to Meg is realistic enough. They cannot conceive a child, which Duffy clearly feels he needs at this point in his life. He keeps pushing this with Meg, and what do you think happens? Of course she's going to feel pressure, especially when she's just been handed her dream job. We never really see 'all' of the events leading to their divorce, but this was clearly an event in the making. What follows is what any person would do following the demise of a long-term marriage/relationship. You go out and try and find someone else in order to start again, if anything to prove that the original break-up wasn't entirely your fault. But regrettably, as Duffy finds out, this doesn't always work either. He tries for someone younger (Masterson), but it becomes frighteningly apparent that perhaps it wasn't Meg or Daphne with the conception issues, but Duffy himself. On a side-note, Duffy's a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to relationships, as he lambastes his own father who decides not long after his wife's death, to get married again. Duffy has no problem moving on from Meg, but has distinct thoughts of how his father's life should progress. I do find a particular scene at his mother's funeral to be incredibly touching. A child runs past Duffy, crying. He picks up the child to reassure him/her that everything is going to be all right, and despite his earlier braggadocio with his father, he completely breaks down at his culminated losses. (Namely the loss of his mother and the acceptance of the fact that he and Meg will never have a child.) Is this one of the classics of all time? No. The ending, as referenced elsewhere, is extremely rushed and a little too clinically 'nice' for me. Should scenes have been deleted? Yes. Namely the ice diaper and Duffy donating sperm scene. This two different films squished together, by Leonard Nimoy. Neither of which would've probably been good on their own merits, but together, they try their best to tell a story about flawed individuals. It's about a four out of ten. It's not as bad as other people have made it out to be.