Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

TonyMontana96 (Originally reviewed: 10/01/2017) I do not recall a single laugh in this painfully unfunny piece of work. Wilder and Pryor have comedic chemistry but the script of Stir Crazy forces them to improvise, making the humor come off as embarrassing. I do not understand what people saw in this film back in 1980, gags such as two guys dancing around in a jailhouse pretending to be crazy and a gay stereotypical guy (who is also black) are just embarrassingly pathetic, rather than one bit amusing. There is but small things preventing this from being a total zero, some hot chicks dancing in a strip club and a small scene involving Wilder and JoBeth Williams, where there is some hint at witty dialogue, which can at least draw a smile from me, if nothing else with the exception of a line in the same scene, where Wilder says " More Americans should go to jail" (because he enjoys it) and his lawyer played by Len Garber says " Oh don't worry, more Americans will". On the other hand none of this can prevent the onslaught of boredom that sinks in afterwards. Stir Crazy has one half of alleged comedy, then has a change of agenda by becoming a prison break thriller in the second half ,as they do not make any further attempt at humor. What on earth were they thinking? If I ever do get into a conversation with someone who mentions See No Evil, Hear No Evil being a better comedy, I will reply, but of course See No Evil, Hear No Evil was funnier, but then again so was the Titanic.

slightlymad22 As it was a movie I enjoyed watching as a kid with my dad and brothers, when I start the Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor comedy "Stir Crazy" was on TV, I couldn't wait to watch it and have s couple of laughs and reminisce about great times.Plot In As Paragraph: New Yorkers, Skip (Genr Wilder) and Harry (Richard Pryor) are best friends who are both fired on the same day. Fed up with life in the Big Apple, they head out to Hollywood, But in the way they are framed for a bank robbery, and end up in a western prison. They have difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for bull riding with the prison rodeo coming up.Wilder and Pryor are a great comedy duo, and still make me laugh even though I have seen it multiple times. Barry Corbin, Craig T Nelson, Erland Van Lidth, Georg Stanford Brown, and Miguel Angel Suarez all offer great support, whilst Tony Burton (Tony Duke from the all the Rocky movies) has a small role, credited as "The guy who punched mean" his Rocky co star Al Salvani is also here credited as "Inmate". Jobeth Williams looks great as a brunette. As a side note, Gene Wilder should not sing!!

Jackson Booth-Millard I recognised the title and knew the two leading stars, I didn't realise though that actor Sidney Poitier has done directing, and this was one of the films he made, so I was definitely going to see it. Basically in New York, writer Skip Donahue (Gene Wilder) and actor Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) are fired from their jobs, and try to get any odd job to get by, one such job being dressed as woodpeckers and singing and dancing to promote a bank. Two crooks take their costumes while they are on a break, and they rob the bank, and not recognising them under the costumes they have been framed for the robbery, and are immediately arrested. They are sentenced to one hundred and twenty five years in prison, but their lawyer Len Garber (Joel Brooks) says he can get them an appeal case, they just have to wait until they can go to court and prove their innocence. In the meantime, Skip and Harry are having a hard time getting used to being in jail, but they do make friends with real bank robber Jesus Ramirez (Miguel Ángel Suárez) and gay killer Rory Schultebrand (Georg Stanford Brown). They are informed of the status of fellow prisoners, contraband supplier Jack Graham (Jonathan Banks) and murderer Blade (Charles Weldon), and they make an unlikely ally with the most feared prisoner, Grossberger (Erland Van Lidth), a mute convicted mass murderer who does have a soft side. Three months pass Skip and Harry are brought to the office of Warden Walter Beatty (Barry Corbin) to have a "test", and Skip is the first to get on a mechanical bull to see how long he will last until chucked off, and the surprise of them all he stays on even at maximum speed, and he has passed the "test". The prisoners tell him and Harry that the test was for a rodeo competition that the Warden wants to enter on behalf of their prison and the neighbouring prison run by Warden Henry Sampson (Nicolas Coaster), so they say that Skip should refuse to participate until they can strike a deal. So Skip refuses, and it is up to Deputy Ward Wilson (Poltergeist's Craig T. Nelson) to break him, i.e. put him and Harry in labour, deprived of sleep, Skip in solitary confinement and them encountering an originally fearful Grossberger, but none of this works. After Harry has a spell in prison hospital, Skip eventually agrees to do the rodeo, but only if he gets to choose his team, and a bigger jail cell, of course the prisoners and he have planned a break out. So it comes to the rodeo, Skip is read to take on the one or two bull riding contests against the prisoner he is against, while Harry and the gang work their way through the stadium and make their escapes in disguise and hidden places. In the end, lawyer Len Garber, alongside his cousin Meredith (Poltergeist's JoBeth Williams), who Skip instantly took a liking to first seeing her in prison, they reveal to him and harry that they have been found innocent after all and are free, so they speed off in the car they nicked, with Maaredith joining. It is a little odd that they were just allowed to drive away having escaped from their prison status, i.e. the Warden may have kept them without finding out their innocence, but it doesn't matter. Wilder and Pryor both get their time on screen and together as the out of place prison buddies, there might not have been so many laugh out loud jokes for me, but it was a humorous comedy. Good!

Paul Andrews Stir Crazy starts in New York City as best friends Skip Donahue (Gene Wilder) & Harry Monroe (Richard Pryor) are both fired from their jobs on the same afternoon, drowning their sorrows in a local bar Skip tells Harry that he is fed up with New York & convinces his friend that they should set off on a road trip across the US to Hollywood to find their fame & fortune. Harry agrees but their old van breaks down in a small town called Glenboro, needing money to pay for the repairs Skip & Harry are hired by a bank to sing a song dressed as Woodpeckers. Two local crooks steal the Woodpecker costumes & rob the bank for which Skip & Harry are blamed, they go before a judge, found guilty & sentenced to one hundred & twenty five years each behind bars in state prison. Both Skip & Harry are unprepared for the harsh reality of prison & decide to use the upcoming rodeo to escape...Directed by Sidney Poitier this is the sort of film that you will get & roll around on the floor laughing or find crude & unfunny, comedy like so much else is subjective & what makes one person laugh will not necessarily make the guy sitting next to him laugh so when I say that I thought Stir Crazy was often quite hilarious it's only my own personal opinion as I know quite rightly the person I was standing next to in the que at the bus stop may not. Simple. I won't say that you will find Stir Crazy as funny as I did but I think you would need to be pretty devoid of emotion not to find at least some of it amusing & as I said I think it's often outright hilarious. The film starts off almost entirely as a showcase for the comedic pairing of Wilder & Pryor with some terrific scenes including the Woodpecker dance, the 'I'm bad' scene in jail, some priceless one-liners & reactions to the general likability of the two leads as they turn the material into gold. However once the rodeo aspect & jail break angle kicks in during the second half of the film the comedy seems to take a back seat as gambling, cheating & an odd jail break (why did Harry have to go back into the rodeo? Why couldn't Rory & Jesus climb up the shaft & into the popcorn thing like Harry & Skip do?) take center stage. Also the ending is a little silly & unsatisfying in it's attempt to finish as quickly as possible, sure Harry & Skip have been acquitted but that still leaves the fact they broke out of jail & helped two other convicted criminals including a murderer to escape too. While I am poking holes in the plot would a lawyer's niece really get a job in a topless bar just on the off chance she might see a guy with a particular tattoo? Now that's going above & beyond the call of duty, unless of course she needed the extra money as well.Shot in a real Arizona prison this has good production values & is well made for what it is although there's no real action apart from some rodeo footage of horses & bulls thrashing around. While there is plenty of bad language & profanity there's no violence to speak of. Apparently Richard Pryor refused to wear the Woodpecker suit while filming but strangely did wear for the poster & promotional materials.Apparently a big success at the time even though the critics generally hated it, some of the country & western style music & songs are a little nerve grating & distracting but nothing too major. The acting is good, Wilder & Pryor in particular are brilliant here as a pairing & it's said a lot of scenes were improvised between the two. Even though their character's never meet in Stir Crazy both JoBeth Williams & Craig T. Nelson went on to star in the excellent Poltergeist (1982) a couple of years later.Stir Crazy is a film that I found extremely funny, Wilder & Pryor are on top form & while the logistic's of the story seem to have been shoved to one side Stir Crazy is just a film to be enjoyed & not taken too seriously.