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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 1379
Released: June 27, 2000 |
| Our Price: $4.95 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. And now, with this special DVD version, you can see all 3 surprise endings! Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things. You'll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes.
Description of Clue:
Undoubtedly the first movie in history to have played in theaters with three different endings (depending on which theater you attended), Clue is a silly whodunit based on the familiar board game featuring Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, and all the other usual suspects. A broadly comic cast play the sundry suspects gathered in a mansion to solve a murder, knowing that one of their numbers is the culprit. Michael McKean, Eileen Brennan, and Tim Curry are the best of the bunch, and the film is as lightweight an experience as a round of the game itself. Directed by Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny). The video release contains all three endings. --Tom Keogh
Clue Reviews:
Fun for everyone 
2009-12-20 - This is a fun movie. A fast pace comedy. Glad I found it for such a good price.
Too Good!
2009-12-07 - Finding a film that will make it past the first 5 years after it is released is difficult. But this is one that I have loved for years. It has some of the most memorable lines ever and is just a good time.
"Well, to Make a Long Story Short..." "Too Late!"
2009-11-11 - This was the first of the movies based on a board game, and it works remarkably well. As in the classic game, we've got Miss Scarlett (Lesley Ann Warren), Mrs. White (Madeline Kahn), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull), and Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd). The year is 1954, and the six of them have been invited to a mansion for a mysterious reason. They are met by Wadsworth the butler (Tim Curry), who says all will be revealed after dinner.
Over dinner, the six guests learn that they all live in Washington DC. And just as dinner is ending, a seventh guest shows up, Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). The other guests quickly learn that all of them are being blackmailed, and Mr. Boddy is the one doing it. The power goes out momentarily, and Mr. Boddy is dead. Now the other guests need to figure out who did it, and which of the weapons he had just passed out was used because the mayhem is just getting started.
Did I mention this was a comedy? It's definitely fashioned in the screwball sense of the term, and as such, it works quite well. I've seen it twice now, and I've laughed so hard every time. Not only are some of the actions quite over the top, the dialogue can be quite quick paced and witty.
The big gimmick of the movie is the multiple endings (just like in the game, you never know who done it). All three of them are on the DVD. Okay, so they require a grain of salt to fully believe, but they certainly work for this film.
The movie is more adult in nature than it truly needs to be. I will confess I find some of those moments funny. But parents may want to preview it before they let their kids watch it.
Looking back on it, I'm not that surprised this movie works so well. The board game really does lend itself to a mystery story. If only other games worked so well as movies.
funnier with every viewing
2009-10-12 - CLUE is one of the funniest films in our collection. And it does get funnier with every viewing. We've never had or played the board game the film is based upon, so I can honestly say the film stands on its own.
Murderously Funny
2009-09-19 - From each of the guests' exasperated looks to the goings on of the evening to Tim Curry's witty exchanges with Martin Mull, this is one of the most underappreciated films of the 1980s. Set in 1954, each guest is invited to a mysterious dinner party reguarding blackmail. They eventually wind up in a murder mystery when their host is killed in the dark. All the weapons are present, the rooms are present and most importantly of all, the characters. All of the actors play them to the hilt. Michael McKean as the over-excited Mr. Green, Eileen Brennan as the befuddled Mrs. Peacock, Christopher Lloyd as woman-crazy Prof. Plum, Madeline Khan as the tragic Mrs. White, Martin Mull as the clueless Col. Mustard, Lesley Ann-Warren as the sultry Miss Scarlett and Tim Curry as the always witty Wadsworth. They all have chemistry with each other and it tells during the dialogue. And be sure to always keep an eye out for clues, because you may notice a few people missing when they discover the body of the dead cook. And no matter what ending occurs (I prefer to set it on random) the clues almost always deduce whodunit. And to keep a long story short (too late), this is a great movie to watch during Halloween or during a dark and stormy night.
