The In-Laws

This movie is pure delight - unpredictable from beginning to end. Every time I start to think of this movie I start laughing, out loud. Falk and Arkin make an incredible pair. The newer version pales by comparison as so many... Full review

I have loved this movie since I was a kid. You end up laughing so hard you might just break a rib! Alan Arkin plays the best straight man you could see. The remake is a sad version of this classic.... Full review

This one with alan arkin and peter falk as vince and sheldon will have u laughing at times this was and is one of my fav movies of all time i mean i can laugh at this every now and again... Full review

This movie suffers from the same problems you find in most older movies. Over-acting and in-your-face slapstick humor. The few subtle humorous moments are lost in a tidal wave of over-the-top schtick.... Full review

This movie is absolutely hysterical. And I do not mean very funny. I mean it is hysterical.The plot is that a CIA operative and a dentist, played superbly and respectively by Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, are about to become... Full review

This movie can be described in one word- Hilarious! Alan Arkin and Peter Falk form an excellent comedic duo, and the script and direction are great. It's not particularly well known after the remake came out, but this one (the original)... Full review

This is truly one of the most under-appreciated comedies of all time. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are magnificent. It was shamed by the abhorrent re-make/re-visit of 2003. Don't judge this original by that pathetic after birth. Two scenes stand... Full review

Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are an absolutely killer combination in this over-the-top comedy. The writer who helped pen "Blazing Saddles," Andrew Bergman, is back in a solo effort this time that downplays the profanity and adult situations of that... Full review

I'm a big Peter Falk fan, so I watched this movie because he was in it. I was in for quite a surprise. It has quickly become one of my favorite comedies of all. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are... Full review

Watched it again this weekend and laughed as hard - no, harder - than the previous 20 viewings! What is it about this movie? It gets FUNNIER every time. Oh sure, everyone comments here about the biggest laugh: Serpentine! Arguably... Full review

It's first a very good story and the humour spurts from the combination of character and situation. Alan Arkin and Peter Falk play it dead funny but deadpan, in this exquisitely crafted contemporary comedy - or is a drama that simply is it too real to be real, if you know what I mean - about a dentist, a CIA agent and lots more. ... Full Review

It's a very good story and the humour spurts from the combination of character and situation. Director Arthur Hiller, with a natural penchant for comedy, takes Andrew Bergman's superbly honed script and fulfills every promise with pay off after pay off. ... Full Review

Clever, wacky and very, very funny, The In-Laws is the best in-joke for movie lovers. A marvellous script with the perfect cast - beautifully executed - makes this one of those films that deserves to sit with the best comedies of all time. ... Full Review

In 1979 Peter Falk and Alan Arkin starred in "The In-Laws," one of the funniest mismatched buddy pictures ever made, an absurdist, lunatic comedy adventure.....It isn't that the new film is bad;....it's just that it suffers mightily by comparison to the original, leaving one with the feeling....shot at and confronting the usual mischief of a comedy action-adventure.....Falk was a manic loose cannon, a fellow we could easily accept as a "rogue agent" (as he's described later in the picture)..... ... Full Review

Movieguide 's critic found much of the movie funny. As a whole, the film never seems to gel beyond a mildly entertaining fish-out-of-water tale. ... Full Review

The movie stars Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, not the most likely of co-stars, but that's the idea. Douglas plays a blithe CIA agent, an unflappable rogue who conceals his wicked machinations beneath a smiling exterior and a hail-fellow-well-met manner. ... Full Article

by Sharyn Yuloff Huge rounds of applause for this remake of a classic 70's comedy. The In-Laws caught my attention from the trailers. I adore Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone, Wonder Boys and The American President ) and to see ... Full Article

One should be embarrassed walking into a remake of The In-Laws without ever having seen the original. At least, that's what you're meant to believe from the rabid fans of the Peter Falk/Alan Arkin "classic". ... Full Article

Comedy: A podiatrist learns that his pending in-law is a possible rogue CIA agent as the latter takes the former on a wild ride of espionage right before their kids' wedding. Jerry Peyser (ALBERT BROOKS) is a conservative podiatrist who, ... Full Article

Plot Uptight Chicago podiatrist Jerry's meticulous arrangements for his daughter's wedding unravel when the groom's devil-may-care father, Steve, arrives. Stumbling upon Steve's nefarious intrigues, Jerry is shanghaied on an international arms-smuggling escapade with the prospective in-law who claims to be... ... Full Article

Everything sly and low-key about The In-Laws , a 1979 comedy about a dentist (Alan Arkin) and a rogue CIA agent (Peter Falk) with nothing in common except that the son of one is marrying the daughter of the other,... ... Full Article