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Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

swazijames In its 1972 review of "What's Up Doc?" TIME magazine noted that film (a comedy) was made by a man without any apparent sense of humor. In the four subsequent years as evidenced by "Nickelodeon", the director failed to acquire one. In the 1976 film the characters are flat and childish but for the child actor, the plot plodding and episodic and the comedy mechanical and witless.

theoneandonlyjimmypage Nickelodeon is best to be for fans enjoyed . Enjoyed, and it will do. fortunes do! as it is about the early days of the movies. It's not a chronicle of one or two movie people, but all of them. It was a time in "the states" it was exploration, excitement and graphic art...bold bright flickering crazy strokes...they were madness, genius, fear, boldness. And truth .And lies. (Nickelodeon 1976) " What you're doing is giving them tiny pieces of time that they never forget"

fedor8 "Targets": idiotic. "The Last Picture Show": dull, filmed in pretentious black-and-white. (Okay, at least he cast his bimbo girlfriend Cybill Shepherd naked there...) "What's Up, Doc?": as bad as every comedy with Big-Nose.Peter Bogdanovich was probably the most overrated director in the 60s/70s, and this painfully unfunny "comedy" only underlines the ineptitude that this pretentious ex-critic always exhibited. Bogdanovich, whose name very ironically means "God's gift", has stated on numerous occasions his belief that the best movies had already been made by the late 60s - which, of course, couldn't be further from the truth. His almost sexual obsession with dumb black-and-white movies, the so-called "classics" of the 20s/30s/40s, had gotten so bad that he had decided one day to make this quasi-tribute to the "golden comedies" of the Silent Era by making a piece of junk called "Nickelodeon". And what better way to enhance an already awful script than by casting such comedy "giants" as Ryan O'Neal and John Ritter...If you think Bogdanovich's "Noises Off" was a pathetic, embarrassing-to-watch farce, then check out this little stinker: it's quite hard to figure out which is more cretinous or childish. "Nickelodeon" is full of sight gags that the writers of Loony Toons would reject on the basis that they are too stupid. This inept comedy can only be enjoyed by two types of people: 1) those who find circus clowns funny, and 2) those who have forced themselves to believe - despite the glaring contradicting, abundant evidence - that Bogdanovich must be a great director, simply because he is the critics' darling. And as we all know, you can't be a good movie student unless you agree with the film critics...A mystery that is on par with why Madonna has had a long career in music or what drugs you have to be on to enjoy Kanye West's excremental produce is certainly the film-critics' love for Bogdanovich's crap. I have no explanation for it, other than that perhaps it may have something to do with the fact that he used to be a critic himself hence knows all those guys by first name. They probably all drink in the same pub, and weep together whenever they hear Barbra Streisand being played on the radio...

BeautifulDisaster Clearly Peter Bogdanovich was running out of ideas and commercial luck by the time this movie hit the theaters. Ryan O'Neal repeating the role ( with much less success ) from What's Up Doc? is hardly watchable and very predictable. Burt Reynolds totally miscast and trying to be funny at all costs (as is the movie from time to time, the scenes don't work because they are too calculated to make us laugh ). The best comes from the three female leads, Stella Stevens is always a pleasure to watch even in a nothing role as hers in this movie, Tatum O'Neal steals all the scenes she is in ( not a very difficult endeavor )and the stunningly beautiful Jane Hitchcock ( a Cybill Shepherd look-alike ) makes the movie worth-watching again and again and again . For Jane ( whatever happened...), for the great movie that could have been ( and never was )and comparing from the crap we're getting today ( SNL comedians, Farrelly Bros, Stiller & Friends ... ). Nickelodeon is a must see.