The Villain
1979VOTE NOW
| Columbia Pictures Corporation | Release Date: July 27, 1979 |
Starring:
Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Foster Brooks, Jack Elam, Kirk Douglas, Paul Lynde, Ray Bickel, Robert Tessier, Ruth Buzzi, Strother Martin
Summary:
Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.
Though kids may enjoy The Villain's harmless high jinks, most adults will feel that, at 90 minutes, this cartoon is about 80 minutes too long. [06 Aug 1979, p.56]
The Villain is itself an extended cartoon, a cartoon with live actors as its director Hal Needham redundantly describes it. The result: while we still guffaw once or twice, our suffering increases proportionately as we are made to sit through a full 80 minutes of numbing mindlessness. [25 July 1979]
The Villain is the sort of dumb comedy that never smartens up. [23 July 1979, p.B11]
Douglas mugs his way through a tedious routine of graceless, mistimed slapstick as his incompetent outlaw repeatedly fails to waylay the miscast Schwarzenegger and Ann-Margret, while director Needham - apparently lost without Burt Reynolds - resorts to hackneyed camera trickery, and only stops the rot with a truly offensive resolution.
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