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Angels With Angles

December 17, 2005 By Sam Sloan 3 Comments

Source: Variety
Reviewed By: Robert Koehler

Frank Gorshin plays George Burns in ‘Angels With Angles.’

Shrouded by memories of better times and better movies, Frank Gorshin and Rodney Dangerfield’s final screen appearances are unfortunately in the thoroughly hapless and embarrassing comedy, “Angels With Angles.”

Title alone tips off pic’s lack of laughs, despite some earnest character acting from the likes of David Proval and Henry Darrow, who somehow signed onto a film that posits an angelic George Burns trying to redeem a guy caught up in Cuban cigar smuggling. Premise isn’t half as unwieldy as the playing, and after a single week Los Angeles run, this one will quickly become an obscure trivia item.

In order to earn his wings in Heaven and once again team up with Gracie Allen, George Burns (Gorshin) is assigned by God (Dangerfield) to redeem a hopeless human named Shoomie (writer-director Scott Edmund Lane). Burns’ encouraging of the sad-sack to reunite with his shady pal Howie (Proval) proves ill-advised, as it gets Shoomie involved in a ridiculous plot to separate Castro from some of his prized cigars. Gorshin’s Burns is genial and precise, unlike, sadly, his second role as an insanely hyper CIA spook.

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  1. Ted Mundell says

    January 5, 2006 at 9:11 pm

    This write is an effete elitist and even other film critics complainthat the only movis he likes are foreign films that no one has ever heard of. Take this wus at face value. He’s a loser. and will remain a loser for a long time to come.

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  2. Elaine says

    April 4, 2006 at 11:51 pm

    Please, at least spell the man’s name correctly FRANK GORSHIN not Gershin. I had the chance to see this movie and found it amusing and entertaining. Of course, I adored Frank Gorshin (and miss him – R.I.P. Frank), so I knew I’d most likely enjoy the movie. Seeing Adam West as Frank’s “Butler” cracked me up! And I just loved Frank Stallone as ELVIS (thank ya!!). Elaine

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  3. Sam says

    April 5, 2006 at 6:12 am

    It was obviously a typo that spellcheck and my edit reading didn’t catch, especially so since his name was spelled correctely througout the rest of the article.

    But thanks for pointing that out to me, and for the very anal among us I have corrected it.

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