Siskel & Ebert Classics 12/8/88 - Twins, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 

Gene was spot on with his analysis of DRS, and yet I give it a thumbs up because Martin and Caine are just that good.

RIP Kelly Preston. So beautiful, gone too soon

It never ceases to amaze me that no one ever mentions that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is based on another movie (Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando and David Niven). The plot and scenes (except the end) are identical.

I love how they get their final digs in on each other in the end.

Amazing he number of decent to classic movies they reviewed weekly and today we are lucky if we get one good or classic movie per year.

Thank you for this bit of Nostalgia (I remember these from when I was like 5-6, and for years had the theme song in my head and forgot where it was from until seeing these films on youtube a couple years ago during COVID)

Twins is such a funny movie

They couldn't have been more wrong on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a wonderful comedy.

Can't believe how many films these reviews keep throwing up that are still popular decades later, as opposed to the drought we have now of variety and big name actors

It;s not often I have the patience to sit and watch an older movie but I recently did with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and I enjoyed it. I laughed aloud several times, especially at the wheel chair bit. Gene should have given it a pass.

I just noticed that in the show’s opening, Gene and Roger are using typewriters.

quintessential episode - each gets hacked off that their respective criteria are not applied equally to successive reviews

my bitch of a step mom loves Dirty Rotten Scoudrels and we watched it many times. I do like it, Steve Martin as the young arrogant con man vs the experienced veteran classy Michael Caine. The whipping part was probably the best and the ending was a nice twist.

Both Scoundrels and Twins classics (Arnie and Danny do their white suit walk out in a way overcrowded Santa Fe Plaza).

Twins, Tequila Sunrise, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are all worth a watch. Wiseguys is a bad film, but I challenge anyone to watch it. Who knows you may like it.

I thought Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was great, but thought Twins was awful.

Arnie looks hilarious in the thumbnail

I love Wiseguys. Watch it all the time. Always think of it when I'm in Atlantic City. Stepmother is godawful. Tequila Sunrise is bland. Twins is nice. Scoundrels has grown on me over the years.

Some Spit votes

I think Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a good example of when Gene gets it wrong because he's losing sight of the purpose of recommending a film as opposed to not recommending it. Too often Gene is operating under the assumption that if he recommends a film that isn't "great" he's doing the public a disservice and that's just not so. It's hard for me to imagine anyone coming out of that movie thinking it was the greatest comedy they ever saw. But it's also hard to imagine anyone being angry that someone recommended it. There's a big difference between a really enthusiastic endorsement and a "yeah, it's okay." lol. Roger understood that perfectly.

"HhEyY...dICKhEdT"

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Twins are two of the best comedies from the 1980s. But any film in which Dan Aykroyd was the biggest name was never good.

Ebert was uncharacteristically wrong about Wiseguys. It had some funny scenes, but overall was a very bad film.