| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
One of Steve MARTIN’s best movies and precisely what Ghost should have been - if it had tried harder to be a good, romantic comedy.
Despite its absurd and oft-used body-swap premise, this is a fresh look at the idea that flatters the intelligence of grownups while still retaining the inevitable references to sex and other bodily functions implied by the very idea of entering someone else’s body - even spiritually.
The film uses a stereotype of an Indian swami that reduces its comic potential, but given that Peter Sellers was dead by the time of its making this is perhaps unavoidable. Otherwise, the characterization is excellent and the mixture of slapstick, smart dialogue and sheer silliness is well-handled because the theme of living life to the full is fully-integrated with the plot.
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