Die Laughing

Great Long Awaited DVD
Love Robby Benson in this movie. Glad it came out in widescreen after so many years. He has a great band in the film and the songs are great also. Should have been a soundtrack. Story is good and movie is good.

Corny--but enjoyable.
I remembered this as a fun movie--with some great music. I know my taste's become more jaded with the sophistication of present-day entertainment--but I did enjoy the sojourn into the past, & still was really pleased with the "light rock" kind of "folksy" music scattered throughout.

Forgotten comedy thriller
This isn't the lost classic that other Amazon reviewers are claiming but it's a mostly enjoyable, if extremely silly comedy-thriller, a genre that was popular briefly in the late 1970's with movies such as Silver Streak and Foul Play. The plot involves a cabbie and wannabe rock singer (Robbie Benson) who picks up a college professor who is being pursued by assassins and ends up with a wooden box containing a very smart monkey that a lot of dangerous people want. Die Laughing only has a handful of real laughs but between the monkey, Robby Benson's budding romance with an adorable tom-boy played by Linda Grovenor and Bud Cort's wonderfully quirky turn as a wealthy nuclear-physics major who really, really wants to be a Bond villain, Die Laughing's cuteness factor is very nearly off the charts. The film's biggest flaw by far are the songs. The filmmakers aren't going for intentionally bad songs like Ishtar, and the songs themselves aren't exactly terrible--the Jim Croce style...

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