Again, this had potential, with sharper writing. I was leaning towards a C+ or B-, but the running jokes ran into the ground, and there were a couple characterizations I disliked: the Ralph character doing something brave and seemingly plunging to his death, and the Lori Beth character being a bimbo who can't remember the Richie character's name, even though they used to date for four years. So C.
It's nice to see 80-year-old Pat O'Brien, but kind of sad when you think about how wonderful he was in one of the best movies ever, Some Like It Hot, which obviously did more justice to the 1920s. At least he'd return in this role of Howard's Uncle Joe a couple years later, in the intriguingly titled "Grandma Nussbaum."
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