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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 1

  Ryan O'Neal cucks Richard Kiel while National Treasure Jack Warden beams with horny approval. Totally inspired, full of wildly inappropriate jokes. Can't believe I'd never seen this before.

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  Review by pirateneckbeard ★★½ 8

  "This is a house of pancakes mam!"

  Maybe I would like to corrupt the title and say just fine. Don't get me wrong there is a lot here to enjoy especially the cast with Jack Warden(Jack Fine) who is always a jewel when you cast him and I loved seeing Fred Gwynne(Chairmen Lincoln) who just hams it up as the leader of a upstate New York collage in his small performances I felt were perfect and I ate em up. As for the story goes it's as vacuous and sexually suggestive as any other early 80's film was that really retained very little logic but all the elements that was deemed necessary for that era. I have to state that…

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  Review by eely 🌻 ★½

  i came to see ryan o’neal’s trademark earnest fluster and i definitely got it!! but i also got racial slurs, homophobia, and blackface which all left a horrible taste in my mouth that not even ryan o’neal digging plastic out of a sidewalk garbage can to cover the rips in the ass of his jeans could cleanse.

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  Review by Ethan Vestby

  What’s Up, Doc? for hustlers.

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  Review by Curtis ★½ 2

  College professor Bobby Fine (Ryan O'Neal) accidentally invents assless jeans after a romantic misadventure with a crime boss's wife (Mariangela Melato). The jeans prove to be a huge hit with the public, saving his father's (Jack Warden) struggling fashion house from being taken over by the same crime boss (Richard Kiel), who discovers the improbable infidelity, kicking off further tribulations, escalating to the operatic.

  What's sitting at the core of this, the idea that elites, both in fashion and academia, can be bamboozled into embracing the most ridiculous ideas, is ripe for satire. Virtually everything else around that is basically garbage.

  O'Neal and Melato have next-to-no chemistry, mostly from his side of things, which renders everything stemming from it inscrutable.…

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  Review by Michael501 📺 ★ 3

  1981 In Review - September
  #10

  A professor (Ryan O'Neal) saves his father's (Jack Warden) New York garment business by inventing jeans with see-through seats.

  I had always thought of Ryan O’Neal as a movie star of the 1970’s, I am not sure what happened to him but here he is in 1981, appearing alongside Richard Kiel who is in this wearing black face and singing Opera. Ryan O’Neal plays a professor who invents a pair of see through jeans, quite by accident.
   This is a supposed to be a comedy but fails completely.

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  Review by teamgal ★★★

  I enjoyed this. But don't listen to me. I liked GIGLI.

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  Review by Rock

  “…The linguine just hang there…”

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  Review by carter.mov ★★ 1

  Matthew I hope you are ready to receive some So Fine jeans for your next birthday !!

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  Review by Neill Shaughness ★

  This script is thoroughly uninteresting. Nothing seems to matter, the main conflict doesn't even begin till forty five minutes into the movie, and every scene feels like highschool improv.
  I would not be surprised if cocaine was present during a large bulk of the writing process.

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  Review by Joe ★★★½

  "This is a House of Pancakes, ma'am."

  This could stand to have a few screws tightened but it's quite funny and I'll bet it works even better with an audience. Even though they'd never admit it, you can tell that the filmmakers had a half-hearted hope that So Fine jeans would become a real-life fashion trend.

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  Review by Jess ★ 2

  Why is this on CRITERION? IT'S SO BAD.