First rate screwball comedy revolving around the contents of about 5 identical bags, a zany free spirit (Barbra Streisand), an uptight music professor (Ryan O'Neal), his frigid fiancee (Madeline Kahn), and the trecherous streets of San Francisco.
Peter Bogdonovich has fashioned an inspired throwback to the film comedies of the '30's and What's Up, Doc? is easily one of the best comedies of the 70's. Barbra gives the best performance of her career -even Streisand's non-fans like her here- and a bespectacled Ryan O'Neal is a perfect straight man. Madeline Kahn (Paper Moon) was one of the most talented and hilarious comedic actors of all time and her Eunice is a brilliant creation. Kenneth Mars (The Producers) also scores as Hugh Simon -a character patterned after intellectual film/theater critic John Simon- John Hillerman (Magnum PI) nails the role of the hotel manager and Liam Dunn (Young Frankenstein) almost steals the movie as the exasperated judge.
Bogdonovich brings the story's madcap quality to a boiling point and creates a chase scene that ranks right up there with the one in Bullitt or any of the other great action sequences in the history of film.
It's an incredibly entertaining movie that gets even better on repeated viewings.
Peter Bogdonovich has fashioned an inspired throwback to the film comedies of the '30's and What's Up, Doc? is easily one of the best comedies of the 70's. Barbra gives the best performance of her career -even Streisand's non-fans like her here- and a bespectacled Ryan O'Neal is a perfect straight man. Madeline Kahn (Paper Moon) was one of the most talented and hilarious comedic actors of all time and her Eunice is a brilliant creation. Kenneth Mars (The Producers) also scores as Hugh Simon -a character patterned after intellectual film/theater critic John Simon- John Hillerman (Magnum PI) nails the role of the hotel manager and Liam Dunn (Young Frankenstein) almost steals the movie as the exasperated judge.
Bogdonovich brings the story's madcap quality to a boiling point and creates a chase scene that ranks right up there with the one in Bullitt or any of the other great action sequences in the history of film.
It's an incredibly entertaining movie that gets even better on repeated viewings.