April 28, 2026

Midweek Mention... See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Midweek Mention... See No Evil, Hear No Evil

We kick things off with a deep discussion about Cris's newly cultivated mustache (a strong Luigi vibe, according to Dan), before breaking down the chaotic chemistry of a blind man and a deaf man trying to solve a murder. From Kevin Spacey and Joan Severance to hilarious police station escapes involving a gold coin and Shalimar perfume, the Dads debate whether the comedy holds up today.

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This week, the Bad Dads rewind to 1989 to review the iconic Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder comedy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil.

What We Covered

  • Mustache Watch: Cris debuts a new retro mustache. Is it Ned Flanders? Luigi? You decide.
  • The Main Feature: Reviewing the chaotic brilliance of Wilder and Pryor navigating a murder plot as a deaf man and a blind man.
  • Classic Tropes: We talk about Kevin Spacey, 80s car chases with a blind driver, and using other senses (and Shalimar perfume) to outwit the cops.
  • Lost in Translation: Reegs runs down the funniest international titles for the film (Spain went with "Don't Yell At Me, I Can't See You").

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Reegs: the crack.

Dan: I love a bit crack. Okay, now I, nobody's got anything to say. Well,

Cris: no, I have loads of stuff

Dan: say. Well well speak it.

Reegs: Let's Say, it.

Cris: Well, Are we,

Sidey: what are we, what are we calling This,

Dan: Could I, could I just raise a hand please?

Reegs: Yes.

Cris: done it already.

Dan: Mustache.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. It's been in place for a little while.

Dan: But I mean, it's looking particularly, it's looking strong.

Reegs: I think if you had,

Dan: shave, isn't it? You've shaved around it and you've cultivated that.

Reegs: You're looking a bit, if you had some blue dungaree and a red T-shirt, you could pass for super Mario.

Dan: I was thinking Luigi

Reegs: or Luigi. Yeah. Luigi was the

Sidey: brother

Reegs: of the two, wasn't

Dan: it? Yeah, he was definitely the hor of the two. Strong game. Like it, I don't think I could grow Tash like that.

Sidey: Prove it.

Dan: it just doesn't. Okay. I will. by, by not doing it. Yeah.

Cris: Yeah. I've to be fair, the only rea the main reason why I still have it is last time when I tried to trim my beard, I ran out the battery on my trimmer and I just thought, let's, it will be funny. And this time I thought I'm gonna keep it because. It's either funny or people are like, oh, that looks good. Or they're like, what are you doing, mate?

Reegs: A lot of people get rocking the mustache look these days as

Dan: are.

Cris: Yeah, it's a bit of a retro kind of vibe.

Sidey: stronger. Pick Ned Flanders. But,

Cris: I also thought, because I went, I did it and I thought if, if it's, if I don't really feel it or if it's all just, it's easy to shave, then the whole thing, right? And I went downstairs and

Reegs: it looks like you'd need a streamer to take it off. Like,

Cris: and Kiara was like, oh my God, are you gonna

Sidey: keep that?

Cris: And I was like, yes. And because she said that, I was like, I'm

Sidey: definitely yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. just,

Cris: just to,

Reegs: she locked it in. Did

Dan: you have a a yellow. Bikini thong on at the time? Or is

Cris: she animal print.

Dan: Animal print, Oh, leopard. skin. Yeah, like that I think you kind of get away with being in a western.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: Yeah.

Dan: You could just handle by that.

Cris: No, it doesn't really go because around here in the, in the corners is really thin. I don't have a thicker side, so it'll go really thin and then it'll kind of

Sidey: Doesn't join

Cris: Yeah, it doesn't really,

Dan: still pretty. you know,

Cris: I've done the, I've done the, is it James? I can't remember The Metallica guy.

Reegs: James. Hetfield.

Cris: Hatfield. I've done the one where you just shave here. Yeah. And I've had the, the thicker thing with the mustache, and I've had that before. And that is, That is, yeah. A strong look. But

Dan: ringing the bell

Cris: Yeah. Maybe. Maybe one day. Maybe one day.

Dan: What about you in your mustache game?

Reegs: Well, it's all right. I mean, I've got

Dan: something going on. Yeah. You've got something you could, you could shave. You could have a mustache tonight or

Reegs: to, to, yeah, I could do right now

Dan: you, you have live on You, side. you used to have like the wax in all sorts going

Sidey: on Yeah. Yeah. I'm A bit more casual with it at the moment. Yeah. you Tash, but it's just annoying 'cause it goes in your mouth and you're eating.

Reegs: yeah.

Cris: and you, if you eat something, it stays on it and stuff like that's. Yeah.

Dan: Is it a particularly evil character thing, would you say?

Reegs: A mustache, definitely. villain. That's villain twirling. their mustache. that's

Sidey: the trope, because this is. sensory like thing No evil week.

Reegs: Yes. Well, it's the, chi, it's the, there's a 17th century Chinese phrase, I think, isn't it? All

Sidey: Monkey

Reegs: see No. Evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.

Sidey: Yeah. We're doing it. we're ticking them. all.

Dan: monkeys

Reegs: all evils. The monkeys that's

Dan: the classic

Cris: Well, that's what they say is the house of the three monkeys now, where it's like hear and see, say nothing.

Sidey: So we're kicking off with see no evil comma, hear no evil.

Reegs: Yes. The classic Gene Wilder, Richard

Cris: Oh, it's the best year in Romanian history. Yeah. We killed him. Right on Christmas Day.

Reegs: You think that was

Dan: was on tv?

Cris: Live on tv. You

Sidey: like it?

Cris: They didn't make a movie about it, which is a bit strange, but Or not yet.

Dan: That would be have no evil, would it? of ending

Cris: Pretty much, yeah. I haven't watched this film though, so have you

Reegs: seen it? 'cause this is obviously a bit of a

Cris: it? could be, but this was

Sidey: this was a big hit when we were at school and off quoted. Specifically by Paul

Reegs: Paul Michelle loved it. Yeah. Was a big good friend of our, and really

Sidey: when it got to the left brain in the right brain. Like I knew that. whole scene. Yeah.

Dan: Did you recently look at Netflix and see they'd done a Gene Wilder tribute documentary? No, because I'm halfway through that as I was already

Sidey: first half or second half

Dan: this I was second half 'cause I, I'd wanna watch the first

Sidey: later,

Dan: so it doesn't make sense. But Gene Wilder was. One of the funniest guys on television that I knew when I was a kid he was from this film from Willy Wonka obviously. But looking at the documentary and how he got into film and TV and things, it was Mel Brooks was seeing one of his co-stars and she said, look, you've gotta. see this guy for a. a program and he ended up doing springtime for Hitler which was

Reegs: the producers

Dan: known as

Sidey: Was he in the Frankenstein one as

Dan: And he was in the Frankenstein ones, but the springtime for Hitler, the producers was the first one. he played the accountant and they just said he was absolutely hilarious. They loved him, but also genuinely beautiful, lovely guy. He was just a straight up guy? And it is always nice when they're they're not doing these kind of. You know, retrospective documentaries and saying he was an asshole. Like yeah. But he was a beauty.

Reegs: And in the context of this movie, he was the guy who advocated and, and I think he has a screenwriting credit on this movie.

Sidey: He turned it down three times, didn't he? 'cause he wanted to exploit,

Reegs: he wanted to not make the people with disabilities the butt

Sidey: of the joke.

Reegs: Yeah. And I think, you know, that's what this movie actually does rather well, considering how old it is. There are other more problematic

Dan: But, that's where his mindset would've been, you know, really nice kind of forward thinking guy in, in a time where nobody was really thinking and considering people with disabilities or Yeah, minority

Reegs: And this was the third of four collaborations with Richard Pryor. There was Silver Streak and Stir Crazy before this, and this came out in 1989, which was three years after. Pryor's diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: And he got top billing in this as well. you'd notice.

Sidey: I had, so I, I know this film quite well. I thought. And then when it, I started watching, his life. fucking Kevin Space in this

Reegs: Yeah. that I had the same thing. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. Which character is he? And

Reegs: And he's got a facial cyst, which, Was that just in the movie? And

Sidey: never commented I, I hadn't, you know, I was so oblivious. Kate's like, what's that lump on his face? He's never had that before. And I was like, oh, is something gonna happen in the film? Or he just had it removed like later on. down, Much further down the line. I guess that's what.

Reegs: No, I think it's a gag for the movie, isn't it? I think it's a a

Sidey: very funny,

Reegs: Yeah. Well, yeah. So it's in New York City it opens what with gene Wilder crossing the road He, why

Sidey: they give you a few bits in New York 'cause it's like sensory, you know, it's loud, it's brash and obviously the two characters aren't able to experience that. Yeah. To its full. I got told to turn the volume

Reegs: Alright.

Sidey: my

Dan: great start to a

Sidey: My least favorite part. Any viewing experience. When I get told that, I'm like,

Reegs: He's, he's, trying to cross the road, isn't he rather unsuccessfully? I mean, he is watching for the, he's on a zebra crossing and he's watching for the light to go And he's slightly

Sidey: the road. Yeah. And the curb. Yeah.

Reegs: And there's a guy in a car trying to lorry trying to come around the corner and he's sort of half blocking, but he doesn't see him and he can't hear him honking on the horn.

Dan: and he starts abusing him, doesn't he? And it's not until he crosses the road a little bit where he turns back and he, he looks, and he can read the lips of the guy who's saying asshole you fucking asshole or something. You

Reegs: He doesn't have a

Dan: He's shouting it out. And Richard Pryor, who's going down the sub walk steps and who can't, C here's somebody just shouting

Sidey: punch shouting,

Dan: you fucking asshole Like, And

Reegs: like, are you talking to me? And obviously Gene Wilder can't hear him, so they're

Dan: so you've got our two characters in the opening that haven't met each other but abusing each other. But not actually abusing each other.

Reegs: And while he is taking wild swipes into the air punches, which I don't think Gene Wilder, see, they go their separate ways, don't

Sidey: Yeah. I think they? make

Dan: we find out that Gene Wilder is the proprietor of a news agent in the bottom of a big building it's like an office building or a

Sidey: is it? Maybe it's an office. But anyway, It's a new stand. Yeah. And,

Dan: he's opening up,

Sidey: doing a good job. But yeah, he, he is very clear. He has to deliberate

Dan: at, one point the like the bellboy comes over or the, the, you know, the concierge comes over and he has to tell him and he says, oh, David, what's his name? David Lyons. Yeah. He goes, Mr. And sort of checks himself and he realizes, God, this guy's deaf.

Sidey: need

Dan: go and speak to him. So he starts doing this performance of. Raising his hands above his head saying the fire warden Then,

Reegs: miming very

Dan: slowly, miming very slowly, all these kind of things. And Gene Wilder looks at him and says, look, I dunno where this started, but there's a rumor going round that would death and I really don't like it. And it just gives you an indication that he won't accept his his blindness as a,

Reegs: well, he's deaf, so he definitely wouldn't accept

Dan: blindness. No, he won't accept his deafness, sorry, as a a disability. And he's making, it's those kind of ities all the way through, actually, isn't it?

Reegs: They're both like that, priors like that as well. I mean, when he, we meet him afterwards. He goes for

Dan: Yeah. They don't, accept it.

Reegs: and then he goes to doesn't he go horse racing? He's trying, like he's, he's, just pretending that he's watching the race

Dan: Yeah. Through binoculars.

Sidey: he puts all his money and then some on Centipede. Yeah,

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: And it doesn't win.

Reegs: No.

Dan: he's got a newspaper that's upside down. He is reading,

Sidey: oh, that's on the subway, he's like, why are you even pretending? And he is like, I'm not pretending.

Reegs: yeah, Well they're both like denying their disabilities, I guess, or trying to cover

Sidey: them up. Neither has been, this is something that's come on in life. They weren't born deaf. and blind.

Reegs: that's right. David was eight years ago. We will find out later. And his wife left him immediately. went deaf,

Dan: wouldn't, you know, like, just coincidence.

Reegs: Yeah. So anyway, because he's run out of money Wally has to apply for a job wouldn't you know it, it's at the concession stand where David works. So he goes for a predictably comical sort of job interview. Yeah. Misunderstandings of plenty. Like David's only getting half the conversation because. The guy will talk and he'll read his lips and then he'll turn away and miss some key bits of context. And, yeah, quite funny. I thought this bit, but in the middle of it Joan Severance turns up looking

Sidey: fucking wha

Reegs: Oh no, actually it's not her first, is it?

Sidey: No, it's the guy first. It's some,

Reegs: Of greasy,

Sidey: some dude who's all sweaty. he's

Dan: he? That he's a bookie for Wally.

Sidey: He's, he's trying to get out of there quick. Mm. And he Then she comes in, yeah.

Reegs: He's got this coin

Sidey: in David Ducks down and misses all of this. Yeah. And he puts, he quickly puts his change in this cigarette, Cigar box. And then

Reegs: including this coin that

Sidey: starts in this

Reegs: from his briefcase,

Sidey: It looks like.

Dan: Yeah. it's a gold coin. And, And this sets up what will be for the rest of the film. A yeah. a wild goose chase and, and things around this coin

Reegs: and, the central idea of the movie, which is she kills this guy and walks off. and He didn't see it. He didn't hear it. Yeah. That's

Dan: and and we just see her legs. So they, they've, they've got the whole picture, but it's two guys who have only got part of their, their senses. So the hearing in the, say the, the seeing is, is only part done and they then. Get arrested. Yeah, because

Sidey: well, they're at the

Dan: between, they're at the scene and between

Reegs: comes walking in and he chips over the dead body just 'cause he goes absolutely flying. David's like looking like, where's he got? Like, oh, it's

Dan: Yeah, No, there, there, there's a few little kind of chuckles and things up until this point and we've just set the scene really. They go down to the cop shop where you've got this guy and they're, they're being interviewed together. And Again, it's just a complete fuck up. It's a complete car wreck of an interview because they only get part of the story from one of the guys as he turns around. Gene Wilder, who's blind. He's asking him questions and of course, only Richard Pryor can hear it and he doesn't think he's speaking to him 'cause he can't see it. So. is just an absolute balls up this and I remember when I was a kid, I was just laughing and lolling at this bit. It was just all so funny. Probably a little less funny this

Reegs: time. I still chuckled quite a few times watching it,

Dan: but when I was a kid it was, you know, you hadn't had the last 20, 30 years of films to compare comedies to These these were two comic actors at the. You know, peak of their powers and, and certainly in you know, high regard when it came to movies and things. I probably at cinema. at

Sidey: home. Yeah,

Dan: Or on video.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Same. a couple of years after it was done, but it was still, you know, have you seen it where I watched that last night? And this this moment where they escape. don't They out there? of all, the police station,

Reegs: Kevin Spacey and Joan Severance turn up posing as their lawyers

Dan: Yeah. Right out.

Reegs: And that they immediately realize, 'cause he's like, he smells the shalamar perfume. and legs. He sees her

Dan: there. other senses. have been

Reegs: they realize that they're there

Dan: the sense of smell.

Sidey: And they've got the, they've got the coin right?

Reegs: They've got the coin. Yeah. 'cause despite them processing them, doing their fingerprints a comical scene, when they're trying to take their photo, it's not going very well. They never checked Wally's pockets, so he's still got the gold coin in his pocket, which works to their advantage when they improvise a quick escape. They get some water from a water fountain, don't they? And They spit it in the incompetent captain's eyes and run off. And then there's a great, it's quite a funny, like eighties car chase. I fucking love the bit where he is telling him to. 'cause it's the blind car. It's Wally driving, and he's blind because David's hands are tied behind his back. and He's going look at the road, He is like, all right, Phil, make you feel better.

Dan: Well, they, they've had another scene where they've had a fight in a bar. And they're like, shuffle, left, shuffle away. Six o'clock, five o'clock. And Richard Pryor is swinging punches. And

Reegs: that guy gets into a fight with him. Yeah. How terrible must he be to lose a fight to Richard Pryor like that?

Dan: Yeah. Well, but the pair of them he lost against too. But yeah, there was it showed a little bit there how they were gonna use there. How they were gonna teamwork against You know, different villains and, and challenges along the film.

Reegs: Yeah. But so they have the car chase, it ends with them driving onto a barge, don't they? Yeah. Like a rubbish barge or whatever. And then they, the car's like wrecked and they fall out with each other a little bit. It's that kind of dynamic. But where they're heading is, he's seen her on the phone say, grace. He thinks it's grace something, some woman's name, but. Wally's sister identifies it as Great Gorge. That's right. A, A resort

Sidey: we've seen. It's even KGO or something, isn't it? What's Kevin Spacey's character called kgo? I

Reegs: know. I never got his name. What is

Sidey: We've seen them reporting to some other guy. Yeah. We ever see the back of his head. right. Like it's some big mystery,

Reegs: like he's the bad guy in inspector Gadget.

Sidey: like that. Yeah. Yeah. You never, You never quite, Well we do later on. But for a lot of the film or Specter, you know, you never see, who number one is so

Reegs: end up without going to this grace great gorge place, don't they?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Where there's a. Gynecological convention basically going on. And they have to pose undercover as these two doctors, Dr. Kessel ring and Dr. Johansen because they're the only two rooms left. And

Sidey: this was just a, because they're trying to get a room there, aren't they? Yeah, they're trying to book in. The only way they can 'cause it's fully booked is to like. Pose as these two. Yeah.

Reegs: Aren't they getting the coin back or something at this point as well? 'cause they've gotta get it back from Joan Severances room, haven't they? 'cause this is the bit where they split up. Wally has to end up going to the convention and giving a talk on geriatric sex

Sidey: multiple orgasms

Reegs: and David has to go to the bedroom to steal the coin back. where

Sidey: got it. she's she's basically been able to get a hold of it at some point. During all this and he has to break into her hotel room while she's in the shower. So we get a gratus, like boob shot. She's absolutely knock out.

Reegs: really hot. Yeah. And then we get a really, a scene where he is like, he's pretending he's got a gun in his pocket.

Sidey: This is the best. feather.

Reegs: Yeah. And and

Sidey: it's lit. It's the literal gag of, It's the literal gag of his, that gun in your pocket or He just pleased to See

Reegs: It really is. Yeah. Afterwards he takes his hand

Sidey: It's still there.

Reegs: She's got his stoning erection. like, Yeah. And she seems to love it as well because there's been some weird dynamic, hasn't there? Where she's

Sidey: She'd kissed him earlier, on. Yeah. I

Dan: I must have admit at this point. I was really pleased that Nelly and Yana had already walked off. Yeah, because it wasn't, it was just eighties

Sidey: boardy kind of like, yeah, bloke bit blokey.

Dan: You don't really want to be watching this with your daughter

Reegs: no.

Sidey: Or the main feature.

Reegs: No.

Sidey: an error. No.

Dan: or

Reegs: so they end up going to, how do they end up going to Sutherland's estate? They end up there, don't they?

Sidey: They get captured and taken there.

Reegs: Oh, that's right. Yeah.

Dan: And we find out that Sutherland is actually a bloke. And he's also

Reegs: And what was he, observing? Is that the actor? Yeah. Thank you. I was gonna ask that.

Sidey: Yeah. He's also blind, which hadn't we hadn't. Figured that

Dan: No.

Reegs: And seems completely pointless. Really. just tacked on.

Sidey: no reason for it to be that way.

Reegs: It's to level the playing field for the final shootout, isn't it?

Dan: Yeah. Which happens as he,

Sidey: well, he gets double crossed. He gets double crossed by space, basically, Like, because he, he makes a mistake of explaining that this coin, well, obviously it's valuable as you wouldn't want it, but he explains what it actually is and it's a superconductor. Yeah. Which is gonna. Revolutionize how they're gonna do all this stuff. communications I think, But then they, it, it is almost like Dr. Evil. cause he's like, it's worth 8 million. You're like, is that it? 8 million Good.

Reegs: Is it really? Yeah.

Sidey: And so it's basically like, oh, well then we need to renegotiate my fee because I want half or

Dan: whatever. You get a a half decent left back in the Premier League for

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. And The guy's. Okay. And just like gets his gun out from under his desk turns the light off and fucking executes him.

Reegs: I didn't think he need to turn the light off Really, did he? He could've just shot him. But anyway, so then there's another convoluted bit where she'll come back, Joan Severances character and Wally and and David will be there and eventually Sutherland himself will get shot. She'll try to leg it out of there and. David and Wally end up going on a zip line.

Dan: Yeah. And there's a chopper waiting for her. And they use themselves as human bombs

Reegs: Yeah. Or Richard Pryor drops from a height and sexually assaults her because he, he just feels her boobs, doesn't he? I mean, it's like blatant, Do You see

Sidey: gotta take the opportunity when it presents itself,

Reegs: Well, I suppose, I, I dunno if he's trying to go the, oh, I'm blind. I dunno what I'm doing. But he grs her on

Sidey: I think. you know, so they zip line there and they fell on these hip, I think there was. a, were Falls from an equivalent height in the main feature.

Reegs: Yeah. And he broke his ankle or

Sidey: were much more realistically, The aftermath was

Dan: it was quite a drop actually. And,

Sidey: they, they, type it perfectly. So they, there's the two assailants and they fall both in the zipwire and perfectly

Dan: and the police sirens already coming

Sidey: And then there's another amusing bit of Gene Wilder then giving orders to the

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: While the police captain's shouting the orders And He's The guy's following the police captain and Gene Wilder

Reegs: thinks it's following.

Dan: He thinks it's him who's holding a knife and like he's going throw

Reegs: he's been the hero.

Dan: Like he's gonna throw that knife and

Sidey: just turns around.

Dan: Oh. right. Okay. So they're

Reegs: exonerated. The police captain has a pretty comical actual meltdown. at the end

Sidey: disgruntled about it. because

Dan: I

Reegs: He's like, I wanna shoot these guys. Why can I shoot them? you can't Captain. Sorry. And and then it ends with like a mirrored moment from earlier in the film where they. Where David had been talking about his

Sidey: ice cream, isn't

Reegs: Lack of belief in himself Really? And he

Dan: how he didn't want to be ridiculed for having a disability. Yeah. How he felt very self-conscious of that. And Richard Pryor had plunged an ice cream on the top of his head and said, well, how do you feel now? And he got in there before Gene Wilder again. Yeah. But then Gene Wilder did the same to him.

Reegs: We finished with the ice creams on the heads.

Dan: We, barely laughing all the way home. Yeah. It wasn't the belly laugh that I had the first time I watched it when I was like nine years old, but no, it would've been probably 1239. I'd have been 84. No. But it's still plenty of chuckles in this. And having watched the documentary of Gene Wilder And looking at those. Comic genius moments of his, really his face, his the way that he looks, the way that he presents a line. I really enjoyed this still. I thought he was still a, know. Comedies are tough to hold up, particularly ones in the eighties. Yeah. That just seem to have a different culture and a different approach to how we find things funny now. And given that this is around about people that are. you know, Blind and deaf. It could have been a lot more difficult to

Reegs: those elements haven't aged all that

Dan: No. Not too bad at all.

Reegs: Yeah. Side, what did you I

Sidey: I got a, a couple of very small chuckles I,

Reegs: that was all

Sidey: just not as funny as I, remembered as kid. The, the erection bit was the funniest bit. I just didn't find it funny.

Reegs: Oh.

Sidey: I wanted to, and there were bits that. I was like, oh yeah, this bit's coming up. and like, oh, funny. Kevin Spacey has a really shit English accent. Oh, You're watching space again. This guy goes on to win an Oscar stuff. like, yeah. It's just not that kind of movie. But

Dan: he was like the Baddy and Annie or something at this stage, wasn't,

Sidey: yeah. Yeah. I, yeah, it just, it was underwhelmed me this time, unfortunately.

Reegs: Oh, maybe you had built up expectations.

Sidey: so. Yeah. I had this sort of elevated sort of You know, idealized version of it in my head. But I like those two guys and, you know, they're all really good and she's the, you know, Joan Seven's really hot, but Yeah. it Just wasn't, I wasn't, I didn't laugh out loud at any point. No,

Reegs: I rarely laugh out loud when I'm watching things, but I did, enjoy, I did quite enjoy this. I Thought like that it did well because it's not very mean-spirited. And it doesn't take the mickey out of them. It leans into their, like it's more the people around them that are the issue. Yeah. And there were a surprising number of laughs that I was laughing at the driving bits and some of the misunderstandings and stuff, but yeah. It's an eighties

Sidey: isn't it? I

Reegs: run out and see it right now if you haven't.

Sidey: No. It'd be hard to give it that strong I recommend.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Still a strong recommend.

Sidey: see, who did the score. Bear in mind I thought the score was

Dan: yeah. It was,

Sidey: Stuart Copeland.

Dan: still Copeland. Steve Copeland, Yeah,

Reegs: was,

Sidey: He did this.

Reegs: yeah,

Sidey: Yeah. No wonder he didn't get any royalties outta the police.

Reegs: Yeah, it was a little bit, I think it suffered from being a bit overly long and

Dan: at one hour 37. That's hard.

Reegs: But you could have, there's still a bit of fat you could have trimmed, I think. Yeah.

Dan: It is, it's difficult. It was for a, t you know, they, they make films for a time, don't they? In, in the eighties. This was popular. This was funny. This was the

Sidey: Oh, the bar fight bit is So lame. It's so lame.

Dan: actually quite laughed at that bit. I honestly, I

Sidey: love I've laughed at it. I didn't laugh with it.

Dan: Yeah, it was like left a bit, right? A bit swing. 12 o'clock, five o'clock. And you laugh because it's, it's ridiculous. And you point fun at it rather than it makes you laugh.

Sidey: Are

Reegs: Are you interested in some of the other names for this film? Yes. In other countries blind, deaf and Insane is In Mexico Spain got, don't yell at me. I can't see you. Denmark had, are you hearing what I'm seeing?

Sidey: Oh, that's quite good.

Reegs: Italy went with non you know, a bit of a

Cris: Don't look at me. I can't feel you or

Reegs: I can't hear you. I can't hear you. yeah. Don't look at me. I can't hear you. I don't think any of those are an improvement on Cino evil here, nor evil.

Cris: Really. I think all of them are better

Sidey: based on what, 'cause you didn't see it.

Cris: Yeah, exactly.

Sidey: you gonna rush out and watch it after our chat?

Cris: No, not really.

Sidey: No, I don't blame you.

Cris: Especially with the the length of the film

Dan: One hour

Sidey: seconds, like it's not a long film. But it doesn't,

Cris: because it's not really Yeah, I, I kind of get it. I, it's, now that you say it, I'm pretty sure because I, and I, obviously I had a look on the internet. I'm pretty sure I've seen this, and there's a few things that, from what you said, that the, the gags and stuff that I've, I'm pretty sure I've seen it. It hasn't really made a lasting memory on me. And it's also one of those films that. I think for the time, and, and I would've seen it I think later than you guys would've seen it. If it's in 89,

Dan: you'd have seen it in 95,

Cris: probably later than that. Really? So, so that's kind of where, and, and I probably didn't really understand all the gags, if I'm being honest, because it's all, it is quite nuanced. So I, I, yeah. Strong recommend though.

Sidey: Strong,

Reegs: I need a We, Right.

Sidey: right?