We saw The Imposters this weekend and it was funny, in
a slapstick-madcap way. The screenplay by Stanley Tucci was just
like a Marx Brothers movie with only 2 brothers on board. Tucci
and Oliver Platt work as a team and their facial expressions
alone are enough to recommend this farce (and I use that word in
a complimentry way!).
This is the story of a pair of losers who have been insulting
to a ham ACHT-TOR (Alfred Molina) and they escape pursuit and
arrest by accidently ending up on a slow boat to Paris, with
Molina, of course, sailing on same boat. We get a cross section
of loonies in the crew and on the passenger list...major
standouts are Campbell Scott as the German Chargé d'Staff (g)
and Lili Taylor as his unrequited love interest. Steve Buscemi as
a suicidal lounge singer and Hope Davis as a glum spinster who
falls in love with him are very funny.
It is a typical narrow escape, wrong room, cross dressing
farce and very light and funny, if you like that sort of thing.
You get the feeling that the cast had a terrific time filming and
that spills over into the viewing fun, too.
