Sean, if you're going to rate your own clip, why only three stars? But I have to disagree about this being a "great bad movie." It's just dull.

Also, the only funny part of the movie is when Hanks has a break down on stage and starts crying.

I didn't give it a higher rating because it doesn't have my favourite line - Tom Hanks trying to nail Sally Field in a car: "I'll say anything to a woman and not mean it. I'll tell her I love her. I don't mess around with funny."

In the movie Funny is shown to be the substance of miracles: it cures disease, rescues a house-wife from domestic drudgeries and a stifling marriage while simultaneously teaching her husband to respect her in a whole new way and turning her into the object of attraction from a younger man, provides refuge for the torment of brilliance and creates meritocratic colonies of loveable goofballs. And this is all generated by the tame, shit comedy presented in the movie! Tom Hanks whining about how his unrelenting wackiness is disrupting his life, Sally Fields telling it straight to the girls - this is the generator of the metaphysical manna of Funny!

Can you imagine what actual good comedy could do, if this wan, lifeless shit can perform magic? Richard Pryor could make cocaine cure cancer and do your taxes. Bill Hicks could strike the concept of war from the human consciousness and replace it with a global appreciation for Stevie Ray Vaughan and the novels of Jorge Borges. Even Father Sarduci could make it so the stairwells in parking garages never smelt like piss ever again.

You are passionate, Sean Robinson. But you do not persuade.