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Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

In spite of how it was originally promoted, Funny Bones has very little to do with stand up comedy. Its convoluted and somewhat confusing storyline tends to undermine its good points....namely, strong photography, quirky characters and many highly imaginative scenes. Many viewers may give up on this film halfway through, but the best is at the end. Several mesmerizing minutes of showmanship provide the climax of the film and it's well worth the wait. Oliver Platt fans should consider this a must, although his character is not particularly likable nor well-drawn. Jerry Lewis essentially plays himself and is effective. In the second half of the movie, Leslie Caron and especially Lee Evans as the puzzling Jack Parker, steal the show with some fine performances. An offbeat cult film with numerous rewarding moments. As Leonard Maltin loves to say, "Not for all tastes."

I can hardly remember the meaning of the story, apart from the fact that Oliver Platt as Tommy Fawkes wanted to make a comedy show. I think we only wanted to see it for the quite funny performance by Lee Evans as Jack Parker. He is quite a jittery character at first and gets involved in chases, but he soon shows his excellent physical comedy to us and Platt. I can't really say that I enjoyed all of it, but the moments with Evans are the most memorable. Also starring Richard Griffiths as Jim Minty and Oliver Reed as Dolly Hopkins. What I remember of this film is okay, but the rest I think is not too interesting. Adequate, in my opinion!

If you read here that this movie is "disjointed" or the like, ignore the review and all reviews by the reviewer. The person obviously can't follow a plot more complex than the latest action flick.Funny Bones has a very complex plot that bears repeated viewings. And there are no gratuitous alluringly dangling loose ends to give the false impression of complexity. (Can you say Quentin Tarentino? ["Oh, like, wow, what sophisticated narrative technique he uses in that time shift."]) *Everything connects.It's also th blackest comedy I can remember (at least since Measure for Measure). How many movies have a morgue scene which has tears of laughter streaming down your face?The folks who call this movie brilliant? Read their other reviews.

Not really a comedy - more a surreal, sometimes weirdly comic piece about comedians, about families, about the awfulness of having a famous father, about genius, about the problem of what makes a comic funny, about the sublime sadness of failure. Lee Evans is absolutely haunting as the tortured comic genius, the natural comic who is so purely a comedian that he can barely communicate except in gags, yet who will never be allowed to perform in public because of his dark past. Leslie Caron is heart-rending as his mother, a brave, faded French beauty stranded for ever singing mildly risque songs in Blackpool pubs, and their tender scenes together are for me the best thing in the whole film.The whole cast is incredible...right down to Oliver Reed camping it up gloriously in a bizarre sub-plot which at first I thought might be part of the Evans' character's fevered imagination. It is a movie absolutely crammed with magic but in one of my favourite scenes, Oliver Platt arrives in Blackpool and instantly sees it peopled with characters from Donald McGill postcards - fat ladies, saucy girls with flouncy skirts, burly men. The ending is a bit wonky and looks to my eye to have been changed from a tragic one to a "happy" one to please audiences. In the two opening sequences, both Evans and Platt utter the words "I'm going to die" in very different circumstances, and mean very different things, and other variations on the theme of death and laughter follow - all this seemed to be pointing down a much darker alleyway than the one we got. Doesn't matter, though. Still a great movie.