Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

SnoopyStyle It's the many misadventures of Californian truck driver Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) and Clyde. Philo makes a side income from bare-knuckle fights with friend Orville (Geoffrey Lewis). His best friend is his orangutan Clyde. He is taken with aspiring country singer Lynn Halsey-Taylor (Sondra Locke). He gets into trouble with the Black Widows biker gang and two cops. When Lynn takes off, Philo, Clyde, and Orville follow. Orville falls for Echo (Beverly D'Angelo) working at a roadside fruit stand.The plot is a rambling journey. It's not the most compelling road trip. The orangutan is fun but it's sad to hear about the old training methods. Clint is stretching out for the first time. It's generally fun but not a laugh out loud fun. I give this a pass.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues Yesterday l watched for third time this incredible comedy,it won't a simple Clint's movie,all characters are colorful as shown bellow: 1-Clint wasn't enough smart...he's jerk 2-Ruth Gordon as Ma is explosively funny mainly when she's alone.. 3-Clyde is perfect partner to take a ride on a pick up and more smart than Clint... 4-The Black Widow's gang are outrageous funny ever!! 5-The Cops are good fishermen...but they don't like snakes.. 6-Locke actually is a wh...let's say like every men...Laughs to begining to the end this underrated comedy is damned good,one the best Clint's movie ever....Geoffrey Lewis as Orville is weird,dumb but funiest as always....anyway the picture didn't age...... like a wine...Resume:First watch: 1983 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.5

Wuchak The story goes that Burt Reynolds was friends with Clint Eastwood in the late 70s and Burt suggested that he would do a serious cop thriller if Clint did a comedy akin to Burt's numerous good ol' boy flicks (e.g 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit"). So Clint did 1978's "Every Which Way But Loose" and 1980's "Any Which Way You Can" while Burt eventually did "Sharky's Machine" in 1981, which he described as "Dirty Harry in Atlanta." Burt lost the challenge because, not only are most of Eastwood's cop thrillers superior to "Sharky's Machine," both of the "Which" films are superior to Burt's good ol' boy flicks, particularly the first one.THE PLOT: Eastwood stars as easy-going truck driver Philo Beddoe who fist-fights on the side for extra money. His buddy Orville (Geoffrey Lewis) promotes unofficial prize-fights for him while his pet orangutan, Clyde, assists them. San Fernando Valley, CA, is their stomping grounds as they enjoy cold beer, country music, bars, women and the occasional fight. While Philo is an expert when it comes to fights he's not so expert when it comes to women, particularly a little country and western singer, Lynn (Sondra Locke) who strangely skips out on him; so he pursues her to Colorado. Meanwhile Philo, Orville and Clyde are pestered by a gang of witless bikers (John Quade, Bill McKinney, etc). Ruth Gordon is on hand as Ma while cutie Beverly D'Angelo plays Orville's girl.Like the title blurb says, this is the best of the good ol' boy movies of that era and the sequel is almost as good. It's consistently entertaining from beginning to end and, while it's too zany to take serious, the movie occasionally contains depth that's surprisingly effective. Lynn's breakdown and Philo's response in the final act is outstanding and the way they leave this subplot hanging for the sequel is genius. Despite being a zany comedy, the characters are decidedly human. Add Clyde's amusing & amazing antics (and, less so, Ma's) and you have the eminent good ol' boy movie.The film runs 114 minutes and was shot in San Fernando Valley, CA, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.GRADE: A

MartinHafer I was amazed as I sat and watched this film. "Every Which Way But Loose" was the second highest grossing (no pun intended) film of 1978...and yet it's practically plot-less and a completely brainless film. It's not 100% terrible, but it is pretty bad--especially as the film becomes tiresome the longer it goes. But, despite this, because it made so much money (people were apparently VERY easy to please in 1978), they soon made a sequel--which I can pretty much guarantee you I'll never be watching! Clint Eastwood plays a guy who loves to bare knuckle fight. Often he does it to win prize money, often he does it just because someone irritated him. Throughout the film, Eastwood gets in one fight after another--and this tended to disrupt the plot--what little there was of it. Eventually, a group of bikers and off-duty cops who he's beaten up go looking for him. But, since Eastwood has gone on a road trip to find a woman he's smitten with (Sondra Locke), they spend much of the movie looking for him--and they end up going on a road trip after him.The film is absolutely stupid in parts. Clyde the Orangutan was at times a bit funny, but talk about contrived!! Ma (Ruth Gordon) cursed like a sailor and was violent. This was supposed to be funny, but like the ape, it wore thin pretty quickly. In addition, there is the dopey biker gang (sort of like the Three Stooges times three) who just seem too stupid and ineffectual to be anything other than comic relief. There are also fart jokes, belching, punch sound effects that make bad martial arts films seem realistic and the like thrown in to boot. It's really the sort of stuff 13 year-olds love laughing at--but I just thought it was all pretty tiresome and well beneath the talents of Eastwood. Add lots of punching and country music and you pretty much get the point of the film. Fortunately, after wasting his time on this movie (and making a bazillion dollars) he went on to far better things. Geez...I feel stupider just for having watched the film!By the way, during the 'funny' sequence where the two guys are shooting at cans and spouting numbers, watch the can that is hit--you can see the strings pulling it!