The Impostors . Newcity Chicago . 10-19-98

The Impostors

DIRECTED BY: Stanley Tucci

REVIEWED: 10-19-98

Stanley Tucci's athletically strenuous slapstick goes down mighty well if you accept the goofball behavior after one or two scenes. While the wonderful work of cinematographer Ken Kelsch repeats from "Big Night," "The Impostors" lacks every bit of the delicacy of Tucci's first film, lavishing itself instead on a cast of his friends hamming it up on an ocean liner in the 1930s. The cast is having the time of their life, and audiences could, too, unless all the leaping and running and shouting leaves them cold. Tucci and Oliver Platt area pair of unemployable actors who inadvertently stowaway on an ocean liner, where they cross paths with the likes of Prussian steward Campbell Scott, overactor Alfred Molina, first mate and spy Tony Shalhoub and a suicidal song star named Happy, played with hangdog gloom by Steve Buscemi. The showers of burlesque are blissfully dumb, but I still laughed all the way through and on my way out of the theater. 101m.

--Ray Pride

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