The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)

This film tries to be quirky and is charming but there is only one laugh in it. That is the hair in the zipper bit. Even the old collapsing chair gag (a trusty stalwart) flops here. But I don't care, because the actress who has her hair caught in the zipper is Loroooriii Sing....no, I can't type it without shaking. Oh God, it's an impossible dream, having Lori SiiiNng..thing caught in your zipper or anywhere NEAR your zipper, for that matter. Even FRANCE would be near enough to get me hot under the collar. She put the 'God' in goddess. It is unbearable watching this film. She has big hair. There's that scene where she runs in slo-mo in the baseball stand in black shorts. So if you hit the slow on your remote, it goes REALLY slow. It's too much. Then there's the scene in the hotel suite. She is in this slinky black number with a plunging (we are talking Niagra Falls here) back. Gibber. And that voice. "Come and sit beside me and get comfortable." "Relax, and let me take control". She runs her hands down...excuse me, I can't go on. Never mind 'Saving Private Ryan', you want to lose Tom Hanks. Nothing serious, just a couple of broken legs. I know this is a terrible thing to be thinking as he is something close to a national treasure in the states, but that is the SssIInnger affect. He should be removed from that expensive looking sofa and replaced by me. Oh, mother. Oh, God. This film is torture. Has Lori been in anything else? Well, there's that tv show and that bit part in 'The Falcon And The Snowman'. So she's a STAR! I feel a bit of stalking coming on. Only she's too old now and there's an ocean in the way. But with film, stars stay young forever and you control the vertical, you control the horizontal. What you can't control is your undying devotion. Okay LUST. I admit it. With video you can get to where you need to go. And with Loor...you've already arrived before you've even started to leave. If you see what I mean.

Dabney Coleman is also in this comedy. He is not pretty normally, but as he is in a film with Lorrr Snngrrr he has sexiness bestowed upon him. He must look great in the shower. The character Tom Hanks plays in this film is diagnosed as being sexually repressed. It's a metaphor for the audience, I think. Not that I know what a metaphor is of course. The only metaphor I'm interested in is one that involves ..you know who. She called me up and I metaphor a drink. You will not laugh at this film, but you will cry. Boy, *sob* will you cry. Oh, God. Lori. I don't have one red shoe but I do have one helluva red CENSORED.

Fmovies: It is a mystery to me why this movie has such a low rating. Anyone who would enjoy Tom Hanks (and thus, a decent flick) should love this movie. Not only is it funny, action-packed, and suspenseful (a rare combination), it boasts an all-star cast all along the way. A unique film, shot on location in beautiful Georgetown, with tons of excitement, zany plot-twists, and interesting characters to spare. If you have yet to see it, check it out now!

There are many different excuses to laugh, and any film that gives us one of them falls into that big bucket we call comedy.

I don't suppose anyone knows much about what makes us laugh, but like yesterday's stock market results, everyone seems to have an opinion about failed comedy. This is a classic failed comedy, regardless of whether you thought the original French film successful.

The story is that a crew of trained professionals mistakenly assume one thing and then grind that conclusion quite literally to death. The same thing happened to the crew that made this stinker.

The women are marginally interesting. Lori singer was a real string player; here she plays the prostituting spy to a string player. Carrie Fisher was deep into her skinny drugged out highly sexed period and plays someone much the same (with a reference to Princess Leia and the wookie).

Hanks only once in a rare while really tries to act. This isn't one of those times. My own theory is that he needs a challenging director.

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

The Man with One Red Shoe fmovies. So sue me if I come across as a hormone driven male, but the most redeeming quality of this movie is seeing Carrie Fischer (before she started aging, and she really hasn't aged all that well...) in a leopard skin bikini. Otherwise, you've got Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, and Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley in a mildly humorous spy movie about a man (Hanks), a stereotypical 'disheveled genius', who is mistaken for a spy by the US government. Predictable slapstick comedy ensues. It's certainly not a bad movie, and it has some moments, but it's not something that will stick in your mind.

In this remake of the French comedy "The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe", Tom Hanks plays a violinist who randomly gets selected as a spy, leading the government to turn his life upside down. There are certainly some really funny scenes here - namely anything involving plumbing - but it's really undesirable when Hollywood remakes a foreign movie. "The Man with One Red Shoe" is pretty characteristic of Tom Hanks's career before he got into serious roles: innocuously silly.

So, I recommend the original, but this one isn't bad. Just don't expect any kind of religious experience. Also starring Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Edward Herrmann, Carrie Fisher, James Belushi and David Ogden Stiers.

Remake of the 1972 French comedy "The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe" hasn't the flair needed for sophisticated spy comedy, and so instead fizzles a bit despite a colorful cast. Tom Hanks is green and occasionally shrill as a concert violinist who is mistaken for a spy by the CIA and is completely unaware that he is being followed, photographed and shot at; Lori Singer struggles with a real puzzler of a role as a beautiful agent(always back-lit)who has to seduce Hanks--but she seems so fed up with his bumbling that their romance comes as something of a shock. Jim Belushi has some fun as Hanks' musician buddy whose wife is cheating on him, but Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning and Carrie Fisher are all wasted.