Overrated

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

My mum bought this film for me in the 90s from a pound store (I live in the UK) and I've loved it since dispute it's flaws. I'd rate it 8 out of 10 but most people will view it as a 5 or an average showing and it didn't do well in the box office upon release. I think this is because it's got an unusual plot and very simple humour.It's not Wilder or Pryor's best film but it has some amusing moments and show cases their comic double act and the fact they loved working together. Some of the scenes are very good and clearly has the Wilder and Pryor improvised touch. The best scene for me is at the end of the movie where the two characters hold up a partner's forever sign is a fitting tribute to their wonderful comedy partnership. May they both RIP as a comic duo who perhaps don't get as much reward or recognition as they deserve.See No Evil Hear No Evil, Stir Crazy and Blazing Saddles are better films but I consider Another You to be a film that is very under rated... most will rate it average though. The story is a little jumbled but the whole plot idea and some of the jokes are very 80s/early 90s.The idea of a con man teaming up with a pathological liar just released from a looney bin is a great plot but I think it suffers because the film is only 1 hour and 20 minutes long, the actors try and do well but it needed another 15 minutes or so to expand the plot and explain things.This is a simple film that you might watch when you want a some humour and nothing as intense as Lord of the Rings or Star Wars. It's not really for kids but young adults and older.

At the time this film was made, Richard Pryor was ill and had but a few years to live; Gene Wilder was a man in his late sixties. Without knowing these facts until a moment ago, my reaction to the film was that Pryor lacked the energy that had characterized his earlier performances; Wilder still performed with zest, yet, it would seem to me, the phenomenon of which George Burns(regarding he and his wife, Gracie) and Jerry Lewis, among others, have spoken, that at a certain age, the characters with whom once they were very successful, now were too young for them to play credibly. Clearly Wilder found that the fey youthful character he had created no longer suited him. Nonetheless, there are enough funny routines here, enough good lines and visual action, to make this quite a pleasant diversion.Sadly, Pryor's medical condition escalates and is visible in the movie. Facial reactions are not present much, and his overall frame is stiffening. One would simply guess that it's old age, but it distracts you when you're watching the movie. Pryor should have been in a hospital rather than a sound-stage and Wilder's misplaced manic energy cannot carry the load. An ignoble end to the team's movie career.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

This being the last of the Pryor/Wilder Partnership, was a commercial and critical failure, However that said, it was always going be tough as Pryor's multiple sclerosis illness had become more serious and is very evident in the film. His usual fast and erratic luney behaviour is reduced to a very frail skinny man who is obviously in pain and trying very hard just to walk.This would of also have reduced the creative input that Pryor contributed to his films. All this aside, Wilder is actually very funny in the movie, his timing is excellent(especially the restaurant scene) and he carries the film well. Pryor is still funny at times but understandably has more of a supporting role. A fan of the Pryor Wilder films should still definitely see this, there are many laughs,with some funny impersonation scenes with Kevin Pollack, but its one for people with a love for their comedy partnership. As a film on its own to an outsider it will more than likely disappoint.It is available on DVD

In this 1991 Tristar Pictures release, Richard Pryor once again portrays a con man and once again Gene Wilder is his costar. Their fourth collaboration may most likely be their last as Pryor's increasing signs of multiple sclerosis made filming extremely difficult for him to get through. It's a real shame in the world of contemporary film comedy as Pryor's possible cinematic swan song (if you don't count his cameos in two 1996 films, "Lost Highway" and "Trigger Happy") turns out to be one of his funniest films and best performances. Pryor portrays Eddie Dash, a con man who has just been released from prison but still has to serve time for community service. He is assigned to be a public escort for a pathological liar (Wilder) who has just been released from a mental hospital. What Pryor doesn't initially know about Wilder is that he is the pawn in a scam to claim a brewery inheritance. The two of them eventually wind up running for their lives when some greedy businessmen decide that they want to cash in on the fortune. Plenty of funny moments from the always dependable duo of Pryor and Wilder.