What a waste of my time!!!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Accident-prone Long Island housewife Shelley Long (as Lucy) chokes to death on a South Korean chicken-ball, then comes back to life after a spell cast by her kooky sister Judith Ivey (as Zelda). To avoid being sent back to her grave, Ms. Long must find true love with either her doctor Gabriel Byrne (as Kevin Scanlon) or widowed husband Corbin Bernsen (as Jason Chadman). "Hello Again" appears to be an update of "My Favorite Wife (1940) and "Move Over, Darling" (1963). For added fun, Long's "Lucy" is given some physical comedy which recalls the famous comedienne. Lucille Ball lost her dress in "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) and had several eating mishaps like those herein, but she wasn't clumsy. Long and director Frank Perry can't quite get the staging and situation to make for maximum laughter.**** Hello Again (11/6/87) Frank Perry ~ Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen

Another great 80's movie...I simply love it. I was never a Cheers fan, but I loved Shelly Long in this. Wish she was in more films these days! If you liked this check out SWITCH with Ellen Barkin, another excellent and underrated film from the 80's.Back to HELLO AGAIN, this movie makes me feel good and laugh. Love the supporting cast. Her sister is hilarious, and the son is kinda cute.Simply loved the part when her sister revives her, and the part when she walks in on her husband and Kim. And the part when she crashed the party and drops cake on the monsters. Her hubby was an --sHOLE. Love this movie totally!!!!!

Director Frank Perry, who in the early 1970s showed some honest talent and an abundance of visual wit, channels the same cartoony approach to 'life' here as he did with his "Compromising Positions"...and the affects are equally as meager. Shelley Long dies but comes back, however there's nothing relatably human about Long's approach to acting. Yes, she's playing a klutzy ditz with a heart of gold, but Long has no shadings, and when she tries for sincerity it rings hollow (even her overly-clear speaking voice sounds as if it's coming from an echo chamber and not a person). I liked Long in the underrated "Irreconcilable Differences", where she really had a chance to carve out a character beyond her snippy "Cheers" persona. It's not that she's a bad actress, there just doesn't seem to be a soul in that body. Pert and perky, she's utterly one-dimensional, pink-and-blonde-and-bland. Who cares if she returns from the dead? *1/2 from ****

I didn't like Doris Day in "Move Over, Darling" and I didn't like Shelley Long in "Hello Again." But, Doris Day, when under the direction of say, Norman Jewison, was brilliant. He kept the reins tight on her in films like "The Thrill of It All" and eliminated a lot of the "cuteness" or "dorisdayisms" that were annoying to so many people.With a better script, "Hello Again" would have been a fun picture for Miss Day, who when regulated, was the best at this sort of nonsense. Miss Long, God bless her, is no Doris Day in the comedy department and was not able to believably handle the slapstick like Miss Day (who was as good as Lucille Ball in that area).I would like to have seen Janis Paige or Dorothy Louden play the Judith Ivy part. Ivy was a little TOO weird-looking in this and I didn't believe her for a minute as Shelly's sister.Byrne was good as the doctor, but Shelley Long has never been movie star material. She's strictly small screen. Look at the hairstyle she was burdened with -- too high school girlish.The picture isn't that bad if there's nothing else to watch at the time. It's really a TV movie disguising itself as a big Hollywood screen comedy.