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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 5648
Released: February 13, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
One of the wackiest zaniest and most beloved comic actors of all time Steve Martin takes center stage in this hilarious collection of three of his most well-known movies: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid The Lonely Guy and The Jerk. Each film is digitally remastered for optimal laughs and this must-have collection includes such comedy greats as Bernadette Peters Charles Grodin and Carl Reiner. Find out why this "wild and crazy guy" has had America laughing in film after fantastically funny film!Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidMartin is Rigby Reardon a private eye with a nose for crime who's hot on the case of a murdered cheesemaker in this hardboiled comedy caper.The Lonely GuyA socially unsuccessful writer creates a book that turns loneliness into a love potion and life in the big city is never the same!The JerkIn this rags-to-riches-to-rags tale sweetly na ve Navin R. Johnson (Martin) decides to explore the world and finds he has a very "special purpose" along the way!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 025193353627 Manufacturer No: 61033536
Description of Steve Martin - The Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid / The Jerk / The Lonely Guy):
Steve Martin's funniest three films, The Jerk, The Lonely Guy, and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, are collected in the Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection with some corny bonus material that pales in comparison to Martin's stunning comedic performances. In The Lonely Guy, Martin's dejected character wanders New York streets with his fern plant searching for a lady to love. Scenes in which Martin calls his lady from his rooftop amidst scores of other lonely guys, or jogs into a diner wearing fake, spray-on sweat, seem more slapstick with each viewing. Martin's masterpiece is The Jerk, about Navin Johnson, a white guy born a "poor black child," who sets out for the city to become somebody. Navin, with hobo rucksack in tow, takes his dad's three rules--Don't trust whitey, Lord loves a workin' man, and See a doctor and get rid of it--to an extreme, after becoming a millionaire from inventing a reading glasses apparatus. Co-starring Bernadette Peters, The Jerk's bizarre humor still feels fresh in its satirical examination of race and class. Watching Navin change from a poor black child, to a gas station attendant, to a millionaire, to a drunken egomaniac, to a homeless bum, illustrates Martin's sheer talent for character sketching. If this Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection is a cake, The Jerk is definitely the icing. --Trinie Dalton
Steve Martin - The Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid / The Jerk / The Lonely Guy) Reviews:
good entertainment 
2009-07-11 - all three are top notch comedy in keeping with steve Martin's style of humor. If you like any of these try "Planes, Trains and Automobiles".
Great Collection of Steve Martin Movies 
2009-05-07 - The idea was really good....all three of the movies were good in
the theater. However,when I recevied the DVDs, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was defective. This is the only reason for the 3-star rating. Had to return the collection. However, could not be more pleased with Amazon's return policy...they were very prompt; I had no trouble at all. Have ordered many items from Amazon, and will continue to to so.
The Worse Movies of Steve Martin 
2009-04-23 - Before I see this set of the 3 movies,( DEAD MEN DONT WEAR PLAID, THE JERK AND LONELY GUY) I loved all the Steve Martin's movies I had seen, but those movies disappointment, it doesn't have nothing interesting. The topic of the 3 movies are ridiculous,boring and exaggerated.
No way! I do not recommend it.
I love Steve Martin!
2009-03-28 - He is great in everything he does. Gotta have these in your collection..in fact...start here!
A real bargain for the Steven Martin aficionado...
2007-12-20 - This is a five star rating of three DVDs as a bargain, which is different from rating each movie as a five star movie.
In this collection of three movies done early in his acting career, Steve Martin is cast in roles taking advantage of his unique forms of comedy, slapstick, and sophistication. We have:
- **** Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (with its use of cameos from other films and the infamous "Friends and Enemies of Carlotta" list),
- ***** The Jerk (a cult classic... "He hates cans!), and
- *** The Lonely Guy ( the sleeper... literally something in between the comedy of The Jerk and "seriousness" of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid).
The weaker movie of the three is The Lonely Guy, a movie of the Neil Simon play, but if you consider it a freebie in this collection, there's no complaint!
