I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

A truly lightweight 1970s comedy that just happened to be released in 1980. Stir Crazy raises numerous smiles and provokes not a few cringes but laughs are few and far between in this meh prison caper. Many characters appeared and disappeared and reappeared just to service the paper-thin plot with no attempt to show how or why anything was really happening or indeed how the lawyer's female friend knew things she couldn't possibly have known having not been privy to those conversations. The love story is totally phoned-in and completely unbelievable whilst being pretty much unnecessary to the actual plot. Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder are given nothing to work with here and Wilder in particular resorts to manic at every opportunity with Pryor seemingly forced to follow suit. Again things just happen with no build-up seemingly just to get us to the end of the film! Stir Crazy is an unremarkable "comedy" that plays it safe from start to finish but forgets to actually provide a competent plot. 3/10 - Not worth watching except if you're bored and feel like an inane "comedy" with lots of smiles but few actual laughs.

It takes a visit to middle America for two jaded New Yorkers (Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor) to figure out. They are framed for a bank robbery, end up in prison, and plot to escape while performing in the warden's rodeo, a supposed fund raiser where the profits end up going in his pocket rather than to make life for those behind bars a bit better. Like the much later rodeo, this is a comedy about showing country folk that just because someone comes from an urban jungle, doesn't mean they can't handle a wild ride on a bucking bull. In this case, it's Gene Wilder, who amazes everybody around him with his ability to remain afloat no matter what messy situation he gets into, while Pryor is playing an updated version of Stepin Fetchit minus the stereotypes.This is an enjoyably funny popcorn film with the two stars supported by the lovely Jobeth Williams as the attorney determined to prove their innocence and George Stanford Brown as a flamboyant gay prisoner who actually shows heart underneath his pansy exterior. An interracial buddy type "Road" movie, this was the second of three pairings for Pryor and Wilder, each of whose brand of comedy flatters the others. This is one time where you want to see the men behind bars outwit the men guarding them.

I first watched this movie as a kid in cinemas I had to go and watch it like 10 more times.my stomach was in cramps every time and tears were coming out of my eyes of laughter.Right from the beginning jokes and one liners.At the lunch when Henry finds out his drug was used as oregano.The Californian earthquake line as epic as any. But of course the most funny scenes are in prison,especially when they pretend the are bad.Unforgettable! I cannot analyse this movie or any other the way critics do.As long as I like it and entertains me or makes me thinking then it works for me. The only flaw of this one probably the last 10 minutes of it,when you don't get any more laughter only the outcome of their attempt to escape from prison.But even this works as the storyline requires an ending. The team of Wilder and Pryor at their very best.U wanna have a good time u must watch this!!!

Stir Crazy is a good movie,its enjoyable and its not a waste of time but if your opinion is a lot like mine you would probably feel like something was missing,especially for the fact that they got actors as good as Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.Two best friends (Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder) leave there home town to meet lovely women,and get a part time job as two singing birds,but two criminals take the bird costumes and rob a bank in the costumes,which makes the two men framed to be the criminals and they get sent to prison and plan to make an escape at the prison rodeo. -DILLON HARRIS