RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

BA_Harrison Take two excellent comedic actors-Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder-and a brilliantly simple premise-a blind man and a deaf man are wrongly suspected of a murder- and what you have is See No Evil, Hear No Evil, a side-splitting farce in which the disabled pair, Wally (Pryor) and Dave (Wilder), have to try and prove their innocence by tracking down the real villains (played by sexy Joan Severance and Kevin Spacey).With Wally unable to see and Dave having to lip read, the scene is set for some incredibly funny knockabout comedy and hilarious verbal interchanges, ably handled by veteran director Arthur Hiller (who also worked with Pryor and Wilder on Silver Streak in 1976).There are way too many funny moments to list, but my favourites are when Dave misunderstand's bad-tempered cop Braddock (Alan North), thinking he has said 'Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman', and Wally, posing as a Swedish gynecologist, giving a talk on multiple orgasms in geriatric women!Also worth a mention: Severance's shower scene (the actress going topless) and Kevin Spacey's facial cyst (the actor had it removed soon after, but here it is so big that it deserves a screen credit all of its own).7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

Charles Herold (cherold) I saw Silver Streak in 1976, thought Richard Pryor was great, and yet it took me 40 years to get around to watching one of the other movies he made with Gene Wilder, because they just didn't look promising to me. And judging by See No Evil, Hear No Evil, my instincts were right.The basic idea is cute. A blind guy and a deaf guy are co-workers who kind of witness a murder, only the blind guy just hears it and the deaf guy just catches sight of the killer's legs. Soon they are beset by suspicious cops and the killers.There are some cute moments in this movie, as when blind Pryor is losing a fist fight until dead Wilder gets behind him and acts as his eyes, or a somewhat amusing scene involving Wilder's mug shot.But not much of the movie is particularly funny, while most of it is irretrievably dumb. About halfway through I started just fast forwarding looking for funny bits, but I could find any until a brief, quite amusing sequence in which two blind guys have a shootout.Wilder and Pryor were fantastically talented people; it's a shame they couldn't get better behind-the-camera talent to get the best out of them.

oOoBarracuda See No Evil, Hear No Evil was the third collaboration between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. The 1989 film directed by Arthur Hiller was a comedic goldmine of a story where a blind man and a deaf man must rely on each other to clear their names as they have been wrongly accused of a murder. The third time was a charm for the Wilder/Pryor duo as they turned in another comedic standout with this film. Never short of laughs or story, See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a treat for audiences 27 years after its release. Dave Lyons (Gene Wilder) runs a convenience stand inside a hotel in New York and just happens to be deaf. 'Wally' Karue, (Richard Pryor) is a man down on his luck who answers Dave's ad for a job opening, and just happens to be blind. Feeling a kinship to one another, Dave hires Wally and the two work together. Everything goes smoothly for the men, what Wally struggles with, Dave helps, and what Dave struggles with, Wally makes up for. When a murder is committed in front of Wally's stand while his back is turned, he turns around just in time to see the murderers legs, and Wally comes in just in time to smell the murderer. Together they are the perfect witness to the crime until they are the ones accused of committing it. Eager to prove their innocence and escape police custody, hilarity ensues in the unique way that only Wilder and Pryor can deliver. There were some wonderfully funny scenes in this movie. The premise of two men having a difficulty in which they need the other to drive a car, or have a fist fight was a great concept for a comedy. For an interesting bit of trivia, Gene Wilder passed on this script multiple times because it was initially poorly written and riddled with inaccuracies. When he finally accepted, he prepared for the role by meeting with a woman that would later become his wife. The writing must have certainly approved, no doubt with Wilder's influence as he was a credited writer on the finished product. What comes through in the finished piece was wonderful, and full of subtly funny scenes that became a mainstay in a Wilder/Pryor film. This film used to be my favorite film of the four that Wilder and Pryor worked together on; it has since been replaced with Silver Streak, but it is still a fun turn every time one watches it. Wilder's character was as good as ever, only going to prove that, like a fine wine, Wilder's acting only improved with age.

SnoopyStyle Wally Karue (Richard Pryor) is blind and he doesn't like it. Dave Lyons (Gene Wilder) is deaf, and runs a newspaper stand. Wally gets a job from Dave, and quickly becomes fast friends. One day, a man comes in. After an argument with Eve (Joan Severance), she kills him. Both Wally and Dave only partly witness the incident. The incompetent police arrests the duo but then they escape. Eve and Kirgo (Kevin Spacey) are after the duo for a valuable coin.Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder are always fun together. The gimmick allows the guys to have some hilarious back and forth. The mug shot scene was gut busting funny. While the joking around is funny, the caper doesn't work as well. In the end, the movie works as an excuse for the guys to go crazy.