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Ishtar [DVD] [1987]

DVD ~ Warren Beatty
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Weston, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin
  • Directors: Elaine May
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Uca
  • DVD Release Date: 13 Sep 2004
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002XP06O
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,387 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Two totally untalented song-writers are advised by their agent to get away as far away as possible. Upon their arrival in Morocco, they are separately recruited as spies for opposing sides of a planned revolution, while simultaneously vying for the attentions of an attractive left-wing revolutionary. Based on an idea by Elaine May.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ishtar, 2 Jun 2008
The critics missed the point of this film.
The humour is along the lines of "The Office" meets "Dumb and Dumber". The Rogers and Clark songs are cringingly bad, deliberately so - that is the whole point of the film. Rogers and Clark are meant to be deluded about their lack of talent (a bit like David Brent's pop video "If you don't know me by now").
They rate their song "Dangerous Business" better than anything Simon and Garfunkle have written.
It's not typical slick american one liner humour, but I found it very funny and have watched it many times.
Ignore the critics and give it a go.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars It's pretty bad, but not as bad as its legend., 11 May 2008
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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Director-writer Elaine May ("The Heartbreak Kid") makes things even worse by casting Dustin as the smoothie know-it-all and Beatty as the dumb shlump when, if anything, those roles should have been reversed. The big-budget film (50 million dollars) remains as one of the all-time box office bombs. Though it might serve as a perverse delight for those who take pleasure in seeing a film that was not intended to be bad turn out so unforgivably bad. Its appeal is as a timeless oddity is almost assured with the advent of cheap second-hand dvds to see if it's as bad as most critics think.


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