Best movie of this year hands down!

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.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is better than I remembered it to be. I did not realize that this was the follow-up films for YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN alums Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman and Madeline Kahn, written and Directed by Wilder.A worthy follow-up. Funny enough - especially Marty Feldman.Worth a viewing if you haven't seen it in a while and enjoy Mel Brooks- type comedies.

How can a movie starring Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman and Madeline Kahn not be funny? I'm still not sure how this one managed it, but it did. The plot was difficult to follow and seemed to constantly meander... this wasn't helped by the numerous inexplicable bursts into song which broke up the narrative and destroyed any momentum the plot might have managed to gather. The desperately un-amusing "Kangaroo Hop" is repeated several times and is more tedious with each repetition. I think during Dom DeLuise's lengthy career he was funny once for about five minutes... unfortunately, those five minutes are in some other film. Wilder, as writer and director, seems to be trying to channel Mel Brooks, who was pretty much a hit-or-miss kind of a guy himself, so the failure of this movie to impress isn't so surprising. Still, I do wish it had been better. It should have been, with this pedigree.

Gene Wilder was a wonderful actor. Unfortunately, here with "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" he bit off way more than he could chew, as he not only starred in the film but directed, wrote it and sang throughout the film. As an actor, he is wonderful...and he should have stuck with acting alone. The project is tedious, horribly unfunny and a waste of great talent.The film stars Sherlock Holmes' younger brother, Sigerson (Wilder). As far as his being smarter, he's certainly not....and again and again he makes a mess of things when Sherlock passes a case off to him. The film features many horribly unfunny things--most of which go on and on and on. Why does Wilder frequently break into song with Madeline Kahn? It's not funny and just seems weird. Why does Kahn constantly lie, it's not funny and just seems weird. And, why is Marty Feldman in the film when he's given nothing funny to do...and this seems REALLY weird. The bottom line is that this film was a misfire from the onset and I kept waiting, in vain, for it to start getting funny.

Gene Wilder is Sherlock Holmes' overshadowed brother Sigerson in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother," a 1975 film directed by Wilder and also starring Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom Deluise, and Leo McKern. Sherlock is busy on a case, so he gives Sigerson one to work on, causing Sigerson to come up against Moriarity (McKern), falls for a music hall singer (Kahn) and ends up on an opera stage singing about sexy wine.This is one of those films that demands multiple viewings. Some of it comes out of left field - such as the "Kangaroo Hop" - and some of it is so hilarious, you want to see it again any. Unlike "The Producers," it's an uneven movie. And one stops caring about what the case actually is long before it's solved, though the case was never the point.McKern gives a flamboyant performance as a completely insane Moriarity, who seems to have trouble with basic math. It's always both a happy and sad occasion to see the wonderful Madeline Kahn - she's terrific as always, but now we've been deprived of her beauty and talent. I'm not entirely sure that she sings the operatic portions of the film, but she does sing throughout in her lovely voice. She and Wilder are a riot together, as are Wilder and Feldman. Wilder has such sweetness and warmth, as well as humor, in his portrayal.For me, though, the funniest scenes are with the operatic tenor Eduardo Gambetti (Dom Deluise) - truly one of the best characters ever in cinema. When he's counting the money in Italian, I was in tears. His entire portrayal is genius.If you see this film and are a little put off by its craziness, I suggest you see it again. You'll appreciate it more. Maybe a movie shouldn't require a second viewing to be liked, but this one is worth it.