Clue (1985)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 10
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 5
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.6/5
User Ratings: 88,500
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Movie Info
In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving). Boddy's butler, Wadsworth (Tim Curry), assigns each guest a colorful name: Mr. Green (Michael McKean), Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan), Professor Plum
Dec 13, 1985 Wide
Jun 27, 2000
Paramount Pictures
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Cast
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Eileen Brennan
Mrs. Peacock -
Tim Curry
Wadsworth -
Madeline Kahn
Mrs. White -
Martin Mull
Col. Mustard -
Christopher Lloyd
Prof. Plum -
Lesley Ann Warren
Miss Scarlet -
Colleen Camp
Yvette -
Michael McKean
Mr. Green -
Lee Ving
Mr. Boddy -
Bill Henderson
Cop -
Howard Hesseman
FBI Agent -
Jeffrey Kramer
Motorist -
Kellye Nakahara
Cook -
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Jane Wiedlin
Singing Telegram Girl -
Don Camp
Cop -
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Rick Goldman
Cop -
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Will Nye
Cop
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (10) | DVD (11)
It's not the least bit scary or suspenseful but instead quickly grows tedious. The more you struggle to keep track of the constantly multiplying plot developments, the harder it gets to care who did it.
Top CriticOnly Lesley Ann Warren, as a tough-talking madam, finds an effective level of stylization, using her leggy physique and wildly expressive features to create a cartoonish figure that's funny within its own boundaries.
The characters are less credible than their plastic counterparts, the puerile humour is dispiriting, and the plotting pulled this way and that by the conceit of releasing the film in the US with a trio of alternate endings.
One ending is more than enough.
Though it takes only 87 minutes to arrive at one of its three different solutions, it has long since worn out its welcome by the denouement.
Easily one of the most gimmicky films of all time ...
If Clue falls a bit short of the mark, it remains a likeable artifact of talented people giving a ridiculous task the old college try... [Blu-ray]
A spiked bon-bon of a film, Clue arrives on Blu-ray with a handsome A/V transfer but little in the way of extras to sort out the film's brilliant showcase of comedic performance.
...really just an excuse for this band of comic actors to play around with a locked-room sex farce that's also a light satire on witchhunts.
Mostly successful and entirely strange... a comic [mystery] that doubles as a parody and triples as an ironic deconstruction of the form.
The board game is a lot more fun.
the endings are almost intended to be seen sequentially, and they are the funniest when viewed in that manner
Curry steals the show in this fun and frantic comedy.
Like a well-oiled machine, "Clue" uses slapstick and situational humor to tell a rather pointed story.
Frenetic, silly, but not as bad as is often claimed.
As a game and as a movie, Clue is fun.
Honestly, it was much, much funnier than it had any right to be.
goofy and entertaining
Audience Reviews for Clue
Super Reviewer
"It's Not Just A Game Anymore"
There's one word that perfectly describes Clue, and that would be "amusing." The movie isn't great or all that hilarious, but what it is, is amusing. From start to finish, it's watchable. It has stretches that are funny and stretches that are boring. It's pretty much unremarkable in every way. Still it manages to be amusing enough to merit a watch.
Most of the amusement I am talking about comes from Tim Curry. I've always enjoyed watching Curry. He has a way of making bad movies watchable. Look at IT for example. His performance as Pennywise is the sole reason I still enjoy that made-for-tv movie; not to mention it is also the reason I lost nights of sleep as a young child. Curry plays the Butler and creates the most laughs out of any of the actors. He also just always gives entertaining performances and this is no different.
Clue is obviously based off of the board game, which happened to be one of my favorite games as a kid. The film is one of those murder mysteries that happens all in one night and in one house. Everyone there is a suspect and the bodies continue to pile up as they all try to piece together who the killer is. The movie does manage to create just enough laughs using this plot, but nowhere near the amount a movie like Murder by Death did.
Clue is very average and uneventful. There's nothing here that really needs to be seen. You probably aren't going to laugh out loud that much. You probably aren't going to be that impressed. At the end of the movie though, you will at least be able to say it was amusing.
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- Mrs. White: Yes, I did it. I killed Yvette. I hated her so much, it...it...it... flames... flames, on the sides of my face, breathing...breathless...heaping breaths... heaping.[Wadsworth interrupts]
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- Wadsworth: You see? Like the Mounties, we always get our man.
- Mr. Green: Mrs. Peacock was a man?! [Colonel Mustard slaps Mr. Green, who turns to get slapped by Wadsworth]
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- Miss Scarlet: Wadsworth, don't hate me for trying to shoot you.
- Wadsworth: Frankly Scarlet, i don't give a damn. As i was trying to tell you there are no more bullets left in this gun see. [gun shot].
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- Col. Mustard: How many husbands have you had?
- Mrs. White: Mine or other women's?
- Col. Mustard: Yours.
- Mrs. White: Five.
- Col. Mustard: Five?
- Mrs. White: Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong and disposable.
- Col. Mustard: You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies.
- Mrs. White: Flies are where men are most vulnerable.
- Col. Mustard: Right!
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- Prof. Plum: What are you afraid of, a fate worse than death?
- Mrs. Peacock: No, just death, isn't that enough?
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- Col. Mustard: This is war, Peacock. Casualties are inevitable. You can not make an omelet without breaking eggs, every cook will tell you that.
- Mrs. Peacock: But look what happened to the cook!
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