Labored with a director like Mark Rydell who has an uncanny knack for making a million dollar movie look like it was shot on a shoe- string, this is not a trip I would recommend. Mr. Rydell is really in his element here. He just loves to ignore his million dollar sets and concentrate instead on Elliott Gould's unprepossessing mug as if he were directing some small-scale TV show and not a film designed by Harry Horner and photographed by Laslo Kovacs. No less than three editors were employed to try to disguise Rydell's inadequacies. It seems Mr. Rydell took no notice of anybody. He didn't even bother to read the credits. For instance, there's a credit he ignored that told us that the stained glass windows in the restaurant set were based on designs by Alphonse Muca. What stained glass windows? Did you see any stained glass windows? I didn't! They were probably hidden behind Charles Durning's right ear. The screenplay – or at least as much of it as manages to percolate through Rydell's heavy hand – is occasionally not without interest, though why Rydell spends so much time on a scene in which Harry tries to persuade Walter to go to New York, beggars the imagination. For your information, Mr. Durning, that's what a movie entitled Harry and Walter Go to New York is all about. Elliott Gould plays Walter and is his usual camera-hogging style. On the other hand, Carol Kane and Jack Gilford are wasted in minuscule parts. But if you can wait that long, there is a nice climax where the songs finally come to the fore in an amusing Ruritanian pastiche.

This movie is painful to watch except when Diane Keaton is on screen. It was interesting to see Carol Kane and Kathryn Brody in the cast. And what a cast. Many actors I recognized in a really stinky movie. Its beyond me how this project ever got made. Thin plot, not funny, not exciting. I wonder what they were aiming for. The best I can say is its not offensive unless you tire of juvenile humor. Grabbing at girls with big cleavage, chasing around, bad singing.....This movie is just painful to sit through. I watched this because Diane is in it. I guess its to be expected that a person's early work can be less than classic. A person has to start somewhere. I'd suggest skipping this movie.

This ranks near the epitome of the comedic experience; perhaps not an intellectually provocative outing, but this is a masterpiece of physical humor. It is unusual to find a film of this nature sporting the stellar cast which appear here - Caan, Gould, Caine and Keaton enjoy a rare chemistry and display a keen sense of timing. If you haven't seen this yet, make it your next film! (Ok, after you finish Lawrence of Arabia, 2001, and West Side Story - but then, make sure you see it!)

Although I think many of the best shots were left on the cutting room floor, this comedy received some bad reviews because it was a simple, funny, refreshing jaunt through the plot without sex, dark humor, and double entendre. It was just good clean fun! Unfortunately, because of that, the reviewers, steeped as they are in self-indulgent feelings of superiority, panned the film. If you like comedy that leaves you laughing and feeling good, be sure to catch this one! (And I'm not just saying that because I appear in the film for about 1/10 of a second!)