1989 comedy
Rating: 14/20
Plot: Soon after a deaf guy hires and befriends a blind guy, the two witness a murder and are immediately picked up by the police as suspects. They have to find the real killers.
The plot's not important anyway since this is just an excuse to get Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor together another time, have an opportunity for a handful of really hilarious gags, and show off Joan Severance's legs. I'll argue with none of those. I just want to say that this has one of my favorite boner jokes of all time, one that is so well executed by Wilder. He also gets a good hollering scene or three and is the best actor in history at delivering lines like "Are you serious? Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?" and "I threatened to shoot a naked woman with my erection" and simultaneously being funny and classy. Pryor can't really act, but the chemistry between these two is terrific. The novelty wears away by the second half of the film, and too much of a story butts in. Also, Kevin Spacey's got some kind of cheek boil that distracts. There's more than enough funny to make this worth the time though.
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