Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Michael_Elliott Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) *** (out of 4) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play characters who have just graduated from a detective school when they get their first case. It turns out that boxer Tommy Nelson (Arthur Franz) is running from the law after being accused of killing his manager. A doctor he knows creates a formula that turns him invisible, which he uses to try and find the real killer of his manager with Bud and Lou along for the ride.After the success of ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, Universal teamed their comedy duo up with several of their most famous monsters and one really could argue that this here was the duos last really good movie. While there are certainly a few gags here borrowed from previous movies, this one really does come across as being funny and fresh. It also offers up some very good special effects that will appeal to those fans of the Universal horror series.The best thing going for this film is that it actually gives you a fairly good and simple story that has plenty for the comic duo to do. There's a great sequence where the boys are given five-hundred-dollars and Costello keeps trying to take some of the money from Abbott. There's a great sequence where Lou is inside a gangster's girlfriend apartment trying to score some evidence. The highlight of the film has to be once Lou is in the ring and the invisible man must help him box. Of course, this one also benefits from us getting to see Abbott take some of the abuse.The special effects are certainly worth talking about as they look downright great. Universal's "Invisible" series had effects that would get better with time but they're quite impressive here and especially the scenes with the invisible man eating spaghetti. Both Bud and Lou are in fine form here as both men seem fresh and full of energy. The supporting cast is quite good as well. Overall, ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN is a very good "B" movie and one of the last good films from the comedy legends.

mark.waltz Although this Abbott and Costello film has its share of laughs, I really wish that it had more of the horrors that many of their late 1940s, early 1950s films had. The Invisible Man had made a brief cameo with the voice of Vincent Price in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, but here, it is character actor Arthur Franz who takes on the role of the Invisible Man. He is a boxer who is in hiding for an apparent murder he committed, and it is up two private detectives Bud and Lou to try and prove his innocence. They have to go up against wisecracking police investigator William Frawley and obvious mobster Sheldon Leonard in order to do so, and with Franz appearing in and out of the film, for some reason Lou ends up in the boxing ring and a fight with he is supposed to take a dive ends up being the comic highlight of the film. However for me the funniest moment comes when Bud and Lou do a routine with money where Lou cleverly pocketing it after Bud insists that he gets it all. It is nice to see Lou getting the upper hand on bud, one of the rare times where he was able to do so. Unfortunately a lot of the film involves juvenile humor. By this time in the aging team was getting a bit old. Certainly, this team did have the longest running pairing in Hollywood history, lasting well over a decade. But other than a few truly original comic bits, this is a trip down the same road and unfortunately it lacks in originality.

morrison-dylan-fan Having enjoyed watching some of The Road To..films with my dad.I was really hoping the this would be a similar type of film,and,though it does not break the fourth wall or has as many in-jokes as the Road movies,i still feel that it is a very good comedy with some surprisingly very well done special effects. The plot:Straight after having graduated from their training school,Detectives Lou Francis and Bud Alexanders office gets invaded by a man,who is a boxer the is being framed for murdering his coach by some gangsters that he double-crossed.The boxer tell them that he them to help him to give the gangsters some payback,for what they have done.His very surprising idea is for both of the detectives to enter a boxing contest that the gangsters are taking bets on!.Whilst they are both at first not keen on the idea (due to neither of them being able to box),they both become very supported of the idea,when they discover that the boxer can become invisible... View on the film:With the story and cast in the film,i though the one of the cleverest things was to have the Invisible Man not not be a scientist,but instead be a normal (though also being a extremely talented boxer) man,Whilst having the great Abbott and Costello inject plenty of funny moments into a film noir style story!!.The main part of the film,that i want to highlight are the very impressive special effects.With the dinner scene (easily one of the funniest parts in the film)and the Invisible Man changing his clothes in the car being very good,Although,some of the effects (such as a cigar "mystriusly" moving across the room)have sadly not aged as well.Final view on the film:A very watchable comedy,with good performances and great special effects.

kyle-mcdonald This another great bud Abbott and Lou Costello and because of all the same reasons it has great comedy in it the acting is good in it the actors are good in it it has a good story line to it and the effects are good in it everything is good in it. so i'm sure that you will not be disappointed with bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet the invisible man. so make sure that you rent or buy bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet the invisible man because it is a great bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie. so i'm sure that you will have a good time watching it and you will watch it over and over again.overall score ******** out of ********** ***1/2 out of *****