CLUE Is An Extremely Faithful Adaptation (Reaction) 

"This is a free country, don't you know that?" "I didn't know it was THAT free." Classic line.

Actually, Mr Green is the right answer. The board game is about finding out who killed Mr Body, and like he said, it was Mr Green, in the Hall, with the Revolver.

“It’s a matter of life after death. He died and I got a life.” Madeleine Kahn steals this movie walking away for me. That and the “flames on the side of my face” speech are some of my favorite lines from any movie. Lol

Tim Curry is the perfect casting in any role he's had, and most he hasn't

Tim Curry is hilarious running from room to room during his reveals. But he is also being true to the board game. In the game, if you want to make an accusation, you have to be in the room where you are saying that it happened. I love that detail.

"Your souls are in danger." "Our LIVES are in danger, ya beatnick." 😆🤣😂

"What are your afraid of, a fate worse than death?" "No just death, isn't that enough?"

One of my favorite parts of this movie will always be P: “Are you a cop?” G: “No, I’m a plant.” S: “I thought men like you were called a fruit.”

"Flames...on the side of my face..." is a classic movie line

Thank you for including Madeline Kahn's "I hated her" rant, Brandon.

"I love that it's staying so true to the game with secret passages" The secret passages even connect the same rooms that they connect in the game.

“I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife” is my favorite closing line to any movie ever.

This movie ended up bombing in theaters, but grew to have quite the following after release on video. The writer/director, Jonathan Lynn, had left his previous field of stage production to go and make the movie, but had trouble finding work in Hollywood for a few years after it was released. After being shot down by pretty much every director in Hollywood, Fox turned to him to direct one of their comedies as a last resort. That movie ended up being My Cousin Vinny, which went on to be a big hit.

To this day whenever I hear someone say ‘to cut a long story short’ I always reply ‘too late’ I love this movie so much!

The singing telegram scene still makes me laugh everytime lol

"I love that one of the last lines of the film is how you would officially declare in Clue that you figured it out" ah yes, that's how I declared victory as a kid, by proclaiming imminent wife sex

Brilliantly conceptualized movie, against all odds of adapting a board game. And it’s still darn funny, to boot.

Don't sleep on Madeline Kahn!! She is absolutely terrific in every role she plays! Absolutely hilarious too, like in Blazing Saddles

The quick, sharp and witty dialogue delivered by this amazing cast of genius comedic actors makes this movie an absolute classic in my book. I've seen it countless times and it still makes me laugh every time. I can't even think of a favorite line because there's so many great ones. There's not many movies I can say are good from beginning to end, but this is one of them in my opinion.

The Mr Green line is also perfect at the end because in the game its totally possible to win by declaring you murdered Mr. Body yourself

When he says that hes going to go home and sleep with his wife, you arent remembering that he introduced himself as gay.

"To make a long story short..." "Too late" will forever be in your mind now. There was an attempt to re-make this, which was shouted down by the general public, just like there have been rumblings to remake The Princess Bride (never going to happen).

The multiple endings also poke fun at the "whodunit" genre as a whole, as the ending in those shows are usually just slapped together from a bunch of scenarios that happened before, but really there was never enough evidence to know who really did it in the first place. The screenwriter could have written a convincing outcome where any one of the characters is the killer.

Whenever I go to my moms house, I ring her bell and then yell “let me in, let me in” and she yells “let me out, let me out” before opening up. Been doing that for years lol

Technically Mr. Green is the “right” answer since he killed Mr. Boddy in the ending that “really” happened.

Tim Curry is amazing in everything he does.

Madeline Kahn improvised the whole “flames” speech and the director liked it so much he left it in

When this came out in the theater, you only got to see one of the 3 endings. I had to wait until the movie came out on VHS to see the other two endings! Such a great movie. ❤️

The great Madeline Kahn! Check her out in Blazing Saddles ,Young Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, High Anxiety, Paper Moon, What's Up Doc...so many great performances!

Fun fact! In Garry's Mod, somebody actually made an accurate recreation of the entire house, down to the last detail and hidden room! It's a classic map used for Gmod Murder, which is very fitting! It's also my favorite map, since this movie is one of my absolute favorites!

"Can you keep a secret? "Yes." "So can I."

The joke set ups and punchlines in this movie are incredible, hardly any comedies commit to actually telling jokes these days, Clue is one of the absolute best

My two favourite parts are Colonel mustard with the ironing board and Tim curry grabbing the knob and say another door and turns the shower on 🤣

Such a great movie with so many quotable lines 👍 That “ Mrs Peacock was a man” line followed by the double face slap, always gets me 😅😂🤣

The scene where Mrs. White starts stammering was ad libbed by Madeline Kahn, as she forgot the line, which ended up in the final cut. The looks on Martin Mull and Christopher Lloyd were genuine. Lol!

I'm surprised you don't recognize Madeline Kahn (Mrs White). She's in every Mel Brooks film ever. Eileen Brennan (Mrs Peacock) has been in almost every tv show under the sun and a wide variety of films like, The Sting, Jeepers Creepers, and many others. Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard) has also been all over tv and films like Maude, Golden Girls, Brooklyn Nine-nine, Jingle All The Way, and Mrs Doubtfire. The singing telegram chick is Jane Weidlin of the Go-Gos. She also played Joan of Arc in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

The murder-mystery show “Psych” did a clue episode for it’s 100th episode- so many references to the movie, would recommend

Depending on theater location and country is how you'd get a different ending for this movie, loved the idea! Especially that they added all three for the home release movies. Love the channels and the selections!

The singing telegram girl is actually Jane Wiedlin... founding member of the all-girl band, The GoGos. She was also Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

The cook is Kellye Nakahara who was played Nurse Kellly on MASH. Mrs Peacock is Eileeen Brennan of fame from The Sting, Private Benjamin and so many more.

The first time I saw this was on cable and it also has the endings cut together like that with the "silent" cards in between. I wish I could have seen it in theaters and have _that_ conversation where which ending any given person saw leads to confusion and unintentional gaslighting.

Brandon : No one i can sus as the villian. me : Have you forgot all of tim currys evil roles?

The "I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife" line, as well as Mr Green being the only male who didn't volunteer to be Yvette's partner, are meant to be funny because he said he was being blackmailed for being homosexual, which could get him fired from his job.

It's great to see this movie get a revival with movie reviewers. I think the humor was so fast paced that it lost some of the initial audience. I was just a kid when I saw it, and liked the goofiness, but watching it again as an adult, it's really quick witted, and the humor, the one liners, really did age well, which isn't that common in comedy. Excellent review as always - these videos are a bright spot to my day!

I had forgotten how gorgeous Lesley Ann Warren was.

Apparently, the original script did have an alternative ending for each character, to show only one at the end of the film randomly, by whatever state or county cinema had chosen, making it a truly unique cinema experience; unfortunately, the film ran out of budget before any more could be recorded. Even Curry's ending was different, As he was spose to drive off with a bomb. The 3 filmed endings were labelled - A, B, and C!

Such amazing casting , the cook played a nurse in the show M*A*S*H, Madelyn Kahn is a comedic legend, she's in lots of Mel Brooks movies, including Blazing Saddles, Tim Curry is his own legend, obviously. All the actors have been famous since I was a kid, and before, The F.B.I agent in the hat, was on the show WKRP in Cincinnati, I saw this in a theater, but almost a year later, and they were playing all the endings by then,

I’m STOKED you’re watching this!!! One of my all-time favourites

It blew my mind to find out this movie came out the same year as Back To The Future. I never saw a young Christopher Lloyd so I didn't realize Doc was really good makeup

For anyone wondering what the spooky organ music is in the intro, it's "Eternal Night" by Sigmund Krähe. His channel doesn't exist anymore but you can still find reuploads of his work.

Mr. Boddy is played by Lee Ving, a really funny pun, since he was the first to say "I suggest we all leave." Would have worked better if he said "I'm leaving" so I could say "Yes you are."

Hands down one of the most underrated comedies of all time! SO GLAD you enjoyed it man!!!

Another great one along these same lines is Murder by Death, which also stars Eileen Brennan and a whole host of amazing names. 🥰

This is one of my favorite films. Always a treat to see someone react to it. I don't think I've seen anyone dislike it.

The Butler: And to make a long story short. Everyone else: Too late! Best scene ever lol 😆😂🤣

Sad that this is considered a cult classic and not just a classic. Love this movie every time I see it. Never disappoints.

The singing telegram is played by Jane Wiedlin from the band The Go Go's. She was also in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

The DVD has a setting where it will randomly play one of the endings. I love it. The dialogue in this movie is superb, probably one of the best written movies one seen. Great reaction. Keep it up

"I am~ a singing telegram--" *BANG*

Tim Curry is such a treasure. I was saddened when I heard he had a stroke a few years ago. I got the Audible version of Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1), read by Tim Curry. He did a VERY good job with those series of books until the stroke where someone else took over. I was hoping if they ever made a movie out of the Abhorsen series that Tim Curry could voice Mogget the moody magical cat.

When this was released in the theaters, I remember the paper listed ending A, B, or C. It was genius because at the time, you had to see the movie multiple times to know how the others ended. To the best of my knowledge, no other movie has done anything like this.

Fun fact, all of the characters wear the color wheel opposite color of their name, Mrs. White is in black, Scarlett is in green, and so on and so on

All of these are consummate comedic actors. Their sense of humor and timing is incredible. Mrs. Ho the cook was on M*A*S*H. In the opening, she is one of the nurses running to the helipad. And the singing telegram girl was a member of the Go-Go's.

This one holds up so well. Just a great ensemble cast.

"Let us in! Let us in!/Let us out! Let us out!" Became *the* quote of my friends for anything thing from getting into/out of the car to regulating ppl... misusing😉...the bathroom at house parties.

Tim Curry was literally the Prince of Darkness in Legend....

M: I can't take anymore scares. Chandelier falls M: Scared shitless.

Brandon: I'm going to figure out who the murderer is. Me: 🤣 I'll take that bet!

“What are you afraid of, a fate worse than death?” “No, just death. Isn’t that enough?” My favorite line.

16:48 Never noticed this until today, the picture of Col. Mustard with the motorist, right before he got killed

This movie is a work of art! So many great lines and such a great cast! Many people from my generation know Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard) as the principal from Sabrina The Teenage Witch so seeing him here is always a treat. So many great comedic actors with perfect timing. Great reaction!

OSCAR!!!!! A slapstick comedy, with epic casting, including Tim Curry, Sylvester Stallone, Isabella Rossellini, about a Prohibition era gangster trying to "go straight" absolute straight to v.h.s gold 😂

I love the whole "1950s murder mystery/comedy in a spooky mansion" thing going on here. Lol

One of my favorite comedies! This movie was cast perfect. Every role.

Great choice of film, Brandon! Your reactions were even more fun because you've played the game yourself. I love the cast. Eileen Brennan, who played Mrs. Peacock is one of my favourite actresses, mainly because of her role as Capt. Doreen Lewis in 1980s "Private Benjamin". You might also like to watch 1976s "Murder By Death", also starring Eileen Brennan with another very talented ensemble cast. (Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Peter Falk and Peter Sellers.)

I never noticed that when the blackmail material gets burned, you see colonel Mustard's driver in the photo right before he gets killed saying his boss was there.

There was a Rocky Horror cast in Rhode Island that performed this movie with a full cast back in the early 2000s.

You should also really watch "Murder by death". Also a comedy playing on the cliches of a murder mystery

This movie is a go to Halloween movie for me. It makes me laugh every time.

“This man looks so dang suspicious…”. Yup, he’s the frontman/guitarist for a hardcore punk band. Stylish and dapper was out of character for him.

Also, If you ever watch the show Psych (which I highly HIGHLY recommend), in a later season they have an episode called 100 Clues. Tim Curry had already played a differences character in an earlier season, so he didn’t return but, Leslie Warren (Mrs. Peacock), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard) and, Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) are in it. It’s excellent.

Fun fact, this movie had 3 different endings. the DVD would randomly choose 1 of them each time you watched, but there was also a version that played through all of them at the end. This was just one, I won't spoil who the other 2 were (I actually don't remember)

Hey, Brandon! Kudos for reviewing this movie! It's definitely one of my favorites! I saw it in a theater and my multiplex in New York played all three options. You bought an A, B or C ticket which designated the auditorium the specific ending was featured in. I bought the VHS and then the DVD. I must have seen this film over thirty times! It never gets old. Tim Curry gives a tour-de-force performance as Wadsworth. The cast are all comedy greats in perfect sync with each other. It's a wonderful little gem. There's been talk of a remake but this is a lightning-in-a-bottle situation like "Ghostbusters" or "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!" A different cast would change the dynamic completely. Another good comedic whodunnit is "Murder By Death" which features parodies of the great cinematic sleuths like Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple gathered together by real-life true-crime author Truman Capote. Trivia unrelated to the production: Lesley Ann-Warren and Susan Sarandon have been mistaken for each other so often in real life that the actresses agreed to sign autographs using their doppelganger's name if erroneously requested by fans!

I remember when I first watched CLUE, I was at the edge of my seat at some point, then laughing my lungs out at other points. 10/10

Great reaction! One of the best ensembles casts ever comprised. Perfect deliveries of an incredibly ingenious script. Time Curry and Madeline Kahn were always the standouts for me, and Elieen Brennan (impeccable as Captain Lewis from Private Benjamin) plays her role to the hilt, love her over-the-top deliveries and when she's fidgeting with her headpiece, ha

This is THE most underrated comedy of all time. Stellar writing, cast, acting.... goodness, stuff like this is so few and far between. I watch this movie at least once a year, usually around Halloween for whatever reason.

From " The Rocky Horror Picture Show "to " Thelma And Louise ", and many more.

Brandon youre killing it with the iconic comedies lately!!

This was always a favourite movie of mine as a kid I’d always watch with my mom, this an hocus pocus lol

So right at 16:48 you can see a picture of Colonel Mustard and the motorist in the war way before he reveals that he was his driver. And also Mr.Green did it. The object of the game is to find who killed Mr.Boddy where and with what. And as his line said "I did, in the hall with the revolver." So the rest of them just offed the people who informed on them.

FUN FACT: The colors of the cars that belong to the 6 main characters (suspects) are the same colors of their playing pieces in the actual board game. (Ex: Miss Scarlet’s car is Red, Mrs. Peacock’s car is Blue, Colonel Mustard’s car is Yellow, ect)

Everytime I hear Tim Curry's voice, my faith in humanity is restored.

This film is seriously awesome. The corniness is perfect. It fits and works. Perfectly cast. Just awesome.

"Interesting bro, there's some broken glass?" Um, short term memory problem, dude? Mr. Body broke that glass earlier trying to escape.

This is my FAVORITE movie of all time. Now my kids can quote this movie all day long. We are on our 3rd dvd as we have worn out the other two and a VHS tape.

This is one of my favourite movies! I've watched it hundreds of times

Love your reactions, not only for this movie.You might also enjoy the film "Murder by Death" (1976), which is not based on a game, but on a country house whodunnit like Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None." The guests are send-ups of well-known fictional sleuths, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan, Nick and Nora Charles, and Sam Spade.

The singing telegram girl was definitely Jane Wiedlin from the Go-go's!

Yes, the endings in theaters were random. They were put together when it was released to home videos.

I'm sure someone has mentioned this somewhere in all the other comments but... I remember when I was a kid and this movie was released in theaters. You would call around to the various theaters to hear what was playing and for this movie, they would say, "Playing on Screen #1 (or whatever # screen), Clue with ending A, or ending B, or ending C." Every theater had only 1 ending, so you would have to visit multiple theaters to be able to see all the endings. It was definitely a unique experience.