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Surely this is NOT what Gershwin (who wrote the song from which the movie's title is derived) had in mind;
his stage musicals of the 20's may have been slight, but at least they were long on charm.
"They All Laughed" tries to coast on its good intentions, but nobody- least of all Peter Bogdanovich - has the good sense to put on the brakes.
Due in no small part to the tragic death of Dorothy Stratten, this movie has a special place in the heart of Mr. Bogdanovich- he even bought it back from its producers, then distributed it on his own and went bankrupt when it didn't prove popular.
His rise and fall is among the more sympathetic and tragic of Hollywood stories, so there's no joy in criticizing the film...
there _is_ real emotional investment in Ms. Stratten's scenes.
But "Laughed" is a faint echo of "The Last Picture Show", "Paper Moon" or "What's Up, Doc"- following "Daisy Miller" and "At Long Last Love", it was a thundering confirmation of the phase from which P.B. has never emerged.
All in all, though, the movie is harmless, only a waste of rental.
I want to watch people having a good time, I'll go to the park on a sunny day.
For filmic expressions of joy and love, I'll stick to Ernest Lubitsch and Jaques Demy...
This is said to be a personal film for Peter Bogdonavitch.
He based it on his life but changed things around to fit the characters, who are detectives.
These detectives date beautiful models and have no problem getting them.
Sounds more like a millionaire playboy filmmaker than a detective, doesn't it?
This entire movie was written by Peter, and it shows how out of touch with real people he was.
You're supposed to write what you know, and he did that, indeed.
And leaves the audience bored and confused, and jealous, for that matter.
This is a curio for people who want to see Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered right after filming.
But Patti Hanson, who would, in real life, marry Keith Richards, was also a model, like Stratten, but is a lot better and has a more ample part.
In fact, Stratten's part seemed forced;
added.
She doesn't have a lot to do with the story, which is pretty convoluted to begin with.
All in all, every character in this film is somebody that very few people can relate with, unless you're millionaire from Manhattan with beautiful supermodels at your beckon call.
For the rest of us, it's an irritating snore fest.
That's what happens when you're out of touch.
You entertain your few friends with inside jokes, and bore all the rest.
It was great to see some of my favorite stars of 30 years ago including John Ritter, Ben Gazarra and Audrey Hepburn.
They looked quite wonderful.
But that was it.
They were not given any characters or good lines to work with.
I neither understood or cared what the characters were doing.
Some of the smaller female roles were fine, Patty Henson and Colleen Camp were quite competent and confident in their small sidekick parts.
They showed some talent and it is sad they didn't go on to star in more and better films.
Sadly, I didn't think Dorothy Stratten got a chance to act in this her only important film role.
The film appears to have some fans, and I was very open-minded when I started watching it.
I am a big Peter Bogdanovich fan and I enjoyed his last movie, "Cat's Meow" and all his early ones from "Targets" to "Nickleodeon."
So, it really surprised me that I was barely able to keep awake watching this one.
It is ironic that this movie is about a detective agency where the detectives and clients get romantically involved with each other.
Five years later, Bogdanovich's ex-girlfriend, Cybil Shepherd had a hit television series called "Moonlighting" stealing the story idea from Bogdanovich.
Of course, there was a great difference in that the series relied on tons of witty dialogue, while this tries to make do with slapstick and a few screwball lines.
Bottom line: It ain't no "Paper Moon" and only a very pale version of "What's Up, Doc."
I can't believe that those praising this movie herein aren't thinking of some other film.
I was prepared for the possibility that this would be awful, but the script (or lack thereof) makes for a film that's also pointless.
On the plus side, the general level of craft on the part of the actors and technical crew is quite competent, but when you've got a sow's ear to work with you can't make a silk purse.
Ben G fans should stick with just about any other movie he's been in.
Dorothy S fans should stick to Galaxina.
Peter B fans should stick to Last Picture Show and Target.
Fans of cheap laughs at the expense of those who seem to be asking for it should stick to Peter B's amazingly awful book, Killing of the Unicorn.
Never cast models and Playboy bunnies in your films!
Bob Fosse's "Star 80" about Dorothy Stratten, of whom Bogdanovich was obsessed enough to have married her SISTER after her murder at the hands of her low-life husband, is a zillion times more interesting than Dorothy herself on the silver screen.
Patty Hansen is no actress either..
I expected to see some sort of lost masterpiece a la Orson Welles but instead got Audrey Hepburn cavorting in jeans and a god-awful "poodlesque" hair-do....
Very disappointing....
"Paper Moon" and "The Last Picture Show" I could watch again and again.
This clunker I could barely sit through once.
This movie was reputedly not released because of the brouhaha surrounding Ms. Stratten's tawdry death;
I think the real reason was because it was so bad!
Its not the cast.
A finer group of actors, you could not find.
Its not the setting.
The director is in love with New York City, and by the end of the film, so are we all!
Woody Allen could not improve upon what Bogdonovich has done here.
If you are going to fall in love, or find love, Manhattan is the place to go.
No, the problem with the movie is the script.
There is none.
The actors fall in love at first sight, words are unnecessary.
In the director's own experience in Hollywood that is what happens when they go to work on the set.
It is reality to him, and his peers, but it is a fantasy to most of us in the real world.
So, in the end, the movie is hollow, and shallow, and message-less.
Today I found "They All Laughed" on VHS on sale in a rental.
It was a really old and very used VHS, I had no information about this movie, but I liked the references listed on its cover: the names of Peter Bogdanovich, Audrey Hepburn, John Ritter and specially Dorothy Stratten attracted me, the price was very low and I decided to risk and buy it.
I searched IMDb, and the User Rating of 6.0 was an excellent reference.
I looked in "Mick Martin & Marsha Porter Video & DVD Guide 2003" and wow four stars!
So, I decided that I could not waste more time and immediately see it.
Indeed, I have just finished watching "They All Laughed" and I found it a very boring overrated movie.
The characters are badly developed, and I spent lots of minutes to understand their roles in the story.
The plot is supposed to be funny (private eyes who fall in love for the women they are chasing), but I have not laughed along the whole story.
The coincidences, in a huge city like New York, are ridiculous.
Ben Gazarra as an attractive and very seductive man, with the women falling for him as if her were a Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas or George Clooney, is quite ridiculous.
In the end, the greater attractions certainly are the presence of the Playboy centerfold and playmate of the year Dorothy Stratten, murdered by her husband pretty after the release of this movie, and whose life was showed in "Star 80" and "Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story";
the amazing beauty of the sexy Patti Hansen, the future Mrs. Keith Richards;
the always wonderful, even being fifty-two years old, Audrey Hepburn;
and the song "Amigo", from Roberto Carlos.
Although I do not like him, Roberto Carlos has been the most popular Brazilian singer since the end of the 60's and is called by his fans as "The King."
I will keep this movie in my collection only because of these attractions (manly Dorothy Stratten).
My vote is four.
Title (Brazil): "Muito Riso e Muita Alegria" ("Many Laughs and Lots of Happiness")
This film is just plain horrible.
John Ritter doing pratt falls, 75% of the actors delivering their lines as if they were reading them from cue cards, poor editing, horrible sound mixing (dialogue is tough to pick up in places over the background noise), and a plot that really goes nowhere.
I didn't think I'd ever say this, but Dorothy Stratten is not the worst actress in this film.
There are at least 3 others that suck more.
Patti Hansen delivers her lines with the passion of Ben Stein.
I started to wonder if she wasn't dead inside.
Even Bogdanovich's kids are awful (the oldest one is definitely reading her lines from a cue card).
This movie is seriously horrible.
There's a reason Bogdanovich couldn't get another project until 4 years later.
Please don't watch it.
If you see it in your television listings, cancel your cable.
If a friend suggests it to you, reconsider your friendship.
If your spouse wants to watch it, you're better off finding another soulmate.

Surely this is NOT what Gershwin (who wrote the song from which the movie's title is derived) had in mind;

his stage musicals of the 20's may have been slight, but at least they were long on charm.

"They All Laughed" tries to coast on its good intentions, but nobody- least of all Peter Bogdanovich - has the good sense to put on the brakes.

Due in no small part to the tragic death of Dorothy Stratten, this movie has a special place in the heart of Mr. Bogdanovich- he even bought it back from its producers, then distributed it on his own and went bankrupt when it didn't prove popular.

His rise and fall is among the more sympathetic and tragic of Hollywood stories, so there's no joy in criticizing the film...

there _is_ real emotional investment in Ms. Stratten's scenes.

But "Laughed" is a faint echo of "The Last Picture Show", "Paper Moon" or "What's Up, Doc"- following "Daisy Miller" and "At Long Last Love", it was a thundering confirmation of the phase from which P.B. has never emerged.

All in all, though, the movie is harmless, only a waste of rental.

I want to watch people having a good time, I'll go to the park on a sunny day.

For filmic expressions of joy and love, I'll stick to Ernest Lubitsch and Jaques Demy...

This is said to be a personal film for Peter Bogdonavitch.

He based it on his life but changed things around to fit the characters, who are detectives.

These detectives date beautiful models and have no problem getting them.

Sounds more like a millionaire playboy filmmaker than a detective, doesn't it?

This entire movie was written by Peter, and it shows how out of touch with real people he was.

You're supposed to write what you know, and he did that, indeed.

And leaves the audience bored and confused, and jealous, for that matter.

This is a curio for people who want to see Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered right after filming.

But Patti Hanson, who would, in real life, marry Keith Richards, was also a model, like Stratten, but is a lot better and has a more ample part.

In fact, Stratten's part seemed forced;

added.

She doesn't have a lot to do with the story, which is pretty convoluted to begin with.

All in all, every character in this film is somebody that very few people can relate with, unless you're millionaire from Manhattan with beautiful supermodels at your beckon call.

For the rest of us, it's an irritating snore fest.

That's what happens when you're out of touch.

You entertain your few friends with inside jokes, and bore all the rest.

It was great to see some of my favorite stars of 30 years ago including John Ritter, Ben Gazarra and Audrey Hepburn.

They looked quite wonderful.

But that was it.

They were not given any characters or good lines to work with.

I neither understood or cared what the characters were doing.

Some of the smaller female roles were fine, Patty Henson and Colleen Camp were quite competent and confident in their small sidekick parts.

They showed some talent and it is sad they didn't go on to star in more and better films.

Sadly, I didn't think Dorothy Stratten got a chance to act in this her only important film role.

The film appears to have some fans, and I was very open-minded when I started watching it.

I am a big Peter Bogdanovich fan and I enjoyed his last movie, "Cat's Meow" and all his early ones from "Targets" to "Nickleodeon."

So, it really surprised me that I was barely able to keep awake watching this one.

It is ironic that this movie is about a detective agency where the detectives and clients get romantically involved with each other.

Five years later, Bogdanovich's ex-girlfriend, Cybil Shepherd had a hit television series called "Moonlighting" stealing the story idea from Bogdanovich.

Of course, there was a great difference in that the series relied on tons of witty dialogue, while this tries to make do with slapstick and a few screwball lines.

Bottom line: It ain't no "Paper Moon" and only a very pale version of "What's Up, Doc."

I can't believe that those praising this movie herein aren't thinking of some other film.

I was prepared for the possibility that this would be awful, but the script (or lack thereof) makes for a film that's also pointless.

On the plus side, the general level of craft on the part of the actors and technical crew is quite competent, but when you've got a sow's ear to work with you can't make a silk purse.

Ben G fans should stick with just about any other movie he's been in.

Dorothy S fans should stick to Galaxina.

Peter B fans should stick to Last Picture Show and Target.

Fans of cheap laughs at the expense of those who seem to be asking for it should stick to Peter B's amazingly awful book, Killing of the Unicorn.

Never cast models and Playboy bunnies in your films!

Bob Fosse's "Star 80" about Dorothy Stratten, of whom Bogdanovich was obsessed enough to have married her SISTER after her murder at the hands of her low-life husband, is a zillion times more interesting than Dorothy herself on the silver screen.

Patty Hansen is no actress either..

I expected to see some sort of lost masterpiece a la Orson Welles but instead got Audrey Hepburn cavorting in jeans and a god-awful "poodlesque" hair-do....

Very disappointing....

"Paper Moon" and "The Last Picture Show" I could watch again and again.

This clunker I could barely sit through once.

This movie was reputedly not released because of the brouhaha surrounding Ms. Stratten's tawdry death;

I think the real reason was because it was so bad!

Its not the cast.

A finer group of actors, you could not find.

Its not the setting.

The director is in love with New York City, and by the end of the film, so are we all!

Woody Allen could not improve upon what Bogdonovich has done here.

If you are going to fall in love, or find love, Manhattan is the place to go.

No, the problem with the movie is the script.

There is none.

The actors fall in love at first sight, words are unnecessary.

In the director's own experience in Hollywood that is what happens when they go to work on the set.

It is reality to him, and his peers, but it is a fantasy to most of us in the real world.

So, in the end, the movie is hollow, and shallow, and message-less.

Today I found "They All Laughed" on VHS on sale in a rental.

It was a really old and very used VHS, I had no information about this movie, but I liked the references listed on its cover: the names of Peter Bogdanovich, Audrey Hepburn, John Ritter and specially Dorothy Stratten attracted me, the price was very low and I decided to risk and buy it.

I searched IMDb, and the User Rating of 6.0 was an excellent reference.

I looked in "Mick Martin & Marsha Porter Video & DVD Guide 2003" and wow four stars!

So, I decided that I could not waste more time and immediately see it.

Indeed, I have just finished watching "They All Laughed" and I found it a very boring overrated movie.

The characters are badly developed, and I spent lots of minutes to understand their roles in the story.

The plot is supposed to be funny (private eyes who fall in love for the women they are chasing), but I have not laughed along the whole story.

The coincidences, in a huge city like New York, are ridiculous.

Ben Gazarra as an attractive and very seductive man, with the women falling for him as if her were a Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas or George Clooney, is quite ridiculous.

In the end, the greater attractions certainly are the presence of the Playboy centerfold and playmate of the year Dorothy Stratten, murdered by her husband pretty after the release of this movie, and whose life was showed in "Star 80" and "Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story";

the amazing beauty of the sexy Patti Hansen, the future Mrs. Keith Richards;

the always wonderful, even being fifty-two years old, Audrey Hepburn;

and the song "Amigo", from Roberto Carlos.

Although I do not like him, Roberto Carlos has been the most popular Brazilian singer since the end of the 60's and is called by his fans as "The King."

I will keep this movie in my collection only because of these attractions (manly Dorothy Stratten).

My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Muito Riso e Muita Alegria" ("Many Laughs and Lots of Happiness")

This film is just plain horrible.

John Ritter doing pratt falls, 75% of the actors delivering their lines as if they were reading them from cue cards, poor editing, horrible sound mixing (dialogue is tough to pick up in places over the background noise), and a plot that really goes nowhere.

I didn't think I'd ever say this, but Dorothy Stratten is not the worst actress in this film.

There are at least 3 others that suck more.

Patti Hansen delivers her lines with the passion of Ben Stein.

I started to wonder if she wasn't dead inside.

Even Bogdanovich's kids are awful (the oldest one is definitely reading her lines from a cue card).

This movie is seriously horrible.

There's a reason Bogdanovich couldn't get another project until 4 years later.

Please don't watch it.

If you see it in your television listings, cancel your cable.

If a friend suggests it to you, reconsider your friendship.

If your spouse wants to watch it, you're better off finding another soulmate.