Ishtar (1987)

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This is unequivocally the second worst movie I every attempted to watch. Worse than Rushmore (and that takes some doing). Worse than the 2013 version of the Great Gatsby. Hell, this movie is worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space.However it is better than Blood Feast (1963). Barely.

I remember watching Ishtar on Netflicks. I'd heard some things about it, mostly bad things, so I decided to give it a go because one of my hobbies is watching movies that people hate. Rogers and Clark, the little band from the movie spend a long time in New York or wherever they live before getting to Ishtar. They crank out their little songs and the songs are bad. The songs are supposed to be bad as there are references to the group being awful in the movie. However, the songs are not bad enough to have me laughing at Rogers & Clark. The whole movie is kind of like that. So after what seems like 30 or 40 minutes of backstory and messing around in New York, the guys end up in Ishtar. I was hoping it would get funnier from here on out, and I was sadly mistaken. Through a series of events they end up riding a blind camel out into the desert, and yes, that gag made me chuckle a little. However, that was the only gag that did, in the entire movie. I won't ruin the ending for people reading this. It's not really a good ending but I won't ruin it for anyone.However, this movie is incredibly unremarkable. It is ridiculously boring. It's not so bad that you want to throw stuff at the screen. However, it's also not so bad that it's good like The Room and movies like that. This movie reminds me of Super Mario Brothers in that it could put coffee to sleep. It's not quite as bad as that one though. If you want to watch it, remember that it has a long run-time and prepare to be bored.

True story: This is the only movie I have ever been to where it was discounted at the box office(This was like shortly after it had been released, I was like 10th or 11th grade). I walked up to pay and it was half the normal price, struck me as odd, but watched it anyway. Wish I had my 107 minutes back. The only redeeming feature was the previews and the Camel. This move lost like 40 million dollars for the production company. The Camel was the best actor in the whole film. The idea as a concept really wasn't that bad, but it jokes were weak at best and it was just dull. I really do believe this to be one of the worst movies ever made. The only movie I have seen worse then this is "Freddy Got Fingered" and even it wasn't discounted...I just couldn't finish it. At least with Ishtar, I only wish I had left, LOL.

Hell is a video store full of copies of Ishtar, so they say. And yes, it's true! It's a terrible film. It's typical 80s: badly written, ludicrous plot, bad acting, you name it, Ishtar has it in spades. And yet so much fun.The plot is: two struggling songwriters take a trip to North Africa, one of them gets recruited by the CIA, the other by some local freedom fighters, hilarity ensues and then they release an album. Seriously, could a movie plot be any better than that? There's camels, bizarre songs and zany comedy.To be serious for a moment though, Ishtar represents a dying breed of movie. These days, 'bad' movies are either just dull and poorly written, or 'gross-out' comedies. No one makes truly bad movies any more like they used to. Ishtar is the perfect storm of wacky humour, outrageous plot and great acting by Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty.I'm giving it 7 out of 10 because I haven't seen it in years, and thus have nostalgic memories that I'm sure do not reflect how bad it actually is!