"See No Evil, Hear No Evil" has one of those really great gimmicks: two witnesses to a murder - one blind, one deaf - are also the prime suspects. This finds Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor knee-deep in one hazardous situation after another, and the movie really prides itself on the physical comedy of its performers. The whole police station sequence, from the mugshot through the interrogation is pure gold.
Pryor and Wilder have a natural chemistry that makes everything run smoothly, despite the improbability of a lot of what goes on here. The movie didn't work so well for me when the larger industrial espionage story took hold, but the broad comedy of the leads is definitely worth the price of admission. And for the delightfully naked Joan Severance, in all honesty.
In the end, it's really just a delightful '80s comedy.
7/10
Pryor and Wilder have a natural chemistry that makes everything run smoothly, despite the improbability of a lot of what goes on here. The movie didn't work so well for me when the larger industrial espionage story took hold, but the broad comedy of the leads is definitely worth the price of admission. And for the delightfully naked Joan Severance, in all honesty.
In the end, it's really just a delightful '80s comedy.
7/10