What a waste of my time!!!

Good concept, poorly executed.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

When I went to my local library to check out DVDs, this one caught my eye because of the two stars pictured on it with their names prominently displayed: Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. Anyone who's watched Mel Brooks' The Producers knows who they are and what a great team they made. So I included it among four others and brought it home with me. I must say while the movie itself is a little uneven (that scene in Wilder's accounting office with his coworkers was a little too frantic for my tastes), whenever Gene and Zero are on screen together they're nothing short of hilarious especially when Mostel does his transformation. Karen Black is also on hand as Wilder's love interest providing a sweet and sexy presence to the proceedings. In adapting Eugene Ionesco's play to the big screen, director Tom O'Horgan does a nice transition from farce to serious drama in the last 30 minutes that made me think about how conformity can be enjoyable if stifling after a while vs. how individuality can be liberating if lonesome because of not-as-many takers. Of course, anyone expecting a conventional slapstick comedy would probably be disappointed with the whole thing but despite some unevenness, I highly enjoyed and recommend Rhinoceros.

The absurdist nature of the film doesn't hide the basic premise of the story - conformity to a herd mentality is to be resisted at all times if one is determined to remain an individual. The rampage of the rhinoceros(es)/rhinocerii(??) may serve to distract the disengaged viewer, but if you're paying attention, you'll get it pretty clearly. Even Stanley (Gene Wilder), seemingly immune to rhinocerization, in a way falls victim to his own brand of conformity - getting drunk on weekends to escape the fact that he 'can't get used to life'.My question would be - where did Zero Mostel get the energy to pull off that rhinoceros transformation? That was a pretty challenging and inspired piece of work. Can you just picture him over at the Bronx Zoo rhino pit evaluating the huge animal's every movement and idiosyncrasy? They were all incorporated into that magnificent characterization that had to go on for a significant portion of the story. It seemed that even Wilder was entranced by the performance.As for Karen Black, I wonder whose idea it was for her to wear that front slit skirt to distract the audience? Herd mentality at work, right? It worked on me, along with those long, leggy shots in every imaginable contorted position. It's too bad she became a rhinoceros too, she had such promise.I had never heard of this movie before until spying the title on one of the cable channels today. The story description hooked me right off, leading me to schedule my day so I could catch it. I guess that could be a submission of sorts as well, but it was worth it to catch the principals in their prime in the sort of inspired lunacy that was considered their trademark.

I saw this movie on TV when I was a child. That was my parents' mistake. I found Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory disturbing as a child, so deciding I wanted to see Rhinoceros because Gene Wilder was in it was plain wrong.The whole thing seemed like a horror movie to me at the time. Having found it confusing to fit in with other people, maybe the movie spoke most directly to me. I have had a horror most of my life of blind conformity. Nevertheless, it was the stuff of nightmares at the time. My clearest memories of it are of Zero Mostel's transformation (the horror of finding one of the last hold-outs was lost) and seeing Gene Wilder huddling against a building out on a ledge high above a writhing mass of rhinos... I confess, I don't know whether that was really in it, just that if there were so few actual rhinos seen in it, as other reviewers suggested, my childish imagination must have filled them in. I would call that effective film-making... giving the mind what it needed to perceive the vision.From the sound of things, this is a movie I should see as an adult to see whether it tends more to be horrifying or funny. Not much of a review, I admit.

this is one of the all-time magnificent plays, illuminating ww2 france as it enthusiastically embraced antisemetic nazi ideals. sartre wrote that france could have been germany, and ionesco brought that home with rhinoceros.one could argue that the work applies today as the bush regime asserts its anti-evil doctrine, and so many buy into it without levels of proof demanded in a courtroom, seemingly willingly! it took years for europe to undo analogous nazi assertions (albeit hitler was infinitely worse to jews than bush is to muslims, the propaganda is scary in its similarity), and perhaps the united states is in for the same.regardless of one's political inclination, the movie is amazing. the trio of mostel - wilder - black is magical. a movie that stimulates the mind.