Nothing really indicates that this is an ultra family friendly thingy... for kids... by kidz. Okay that last part might not be true.
The rating on here is clearly extremely slanted upwards by people who loved it as a kid, which made me watch it in hope of maybe a "Who's Harry Crumb?" or something of an English style, time appropriate Naked Gun maybe?
But it is extremely low on disturbing looksies just as much as anything funny. It is a thriller / horror spoof thingy that is just very rarely, and very very very mildly funny. Most of the intended source of jokes is the evidently way too stupid (even seen as, in universe, by his colleague) detective assistant, and the detective himself who's got an entire one silly shocked look as his arsenal for laugh making.
The entirety of the movie is these two bumbling through a mansion's public, and secretive rooms and dungeons, while the one makes the silly look, and the other just looking/acting silly.
There's one remarkable running joke with messenger pigeons, through which the detectives are supposedly in contact with the Yard, but none of the pigeons ever reach the outside of the mansion alive. Those yielded some mild chuckles out of me as they get progressively more creative throughout.
I gave 5 and will not say "not recommended", because i both consider giving sub-5 ratings and saying "not recommended" to be mean to a film.
But this is truly one of those "loved as a kiddo, and as an adult you now see it wasn't good" types. Not me, i didn't see it as a kid, my head is clear to make an objective judgement.
The rating on here is clearly extremely slanted upwards by people who loved it as a kid, which made me watch it in hope of maybe a "Who's Harry Crumb?" or something of an English style, time appropriate Naked Gun maybe?
But it is extremely low on disturbing looksies just as much as anything funny. It is a thriller / horror spoof thingy that is just very rarely, and very very very mildly funny. Most of the intended source of jokes is the evidently way too stupid (even seen as, in universe, by his colleague) detective assistant, and the detective himself who's got an entire one silly shocked look as his arsenal for laugh making.
The entirety of the movie is these two bumbling through a mansion's public, and secretive rooms and dungeons, while the one makes the silly look, and the other just looking/acting silly.
There's one remarkable running joke with messenger pigeons, through which the detectives are supposedly in contact with the Yard, but none of the pigeons ever reach the outside of the mansion alive. Those yielded some mild chuckles out of me as they get progressively more creative throughout.
I gave 5 and will not say "not recommended", because i both consider giving sub-5 ratings and saying "not recommended" to be mean to a film.
But this is truly one of those "loved as a kiddo, and as an adult you now see it wasn't good" types. Not me, i didn't see it as a kid, my head is clear to make an objective judgement.