Rotten
It's not the least bit scary or suspenseful but instead quickly grows tedious. The more you struggle to keep track of the constantly multiplying plot developments, the harder it gets to care who did it.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Clue
It's not just a game anymore.
1985 · 1h 34m · PG
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Jonathan Lynn
Overview
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Director and cast
- Jonathan Lynn Director
- Tim Curry as Wadsworth
- Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock
- Madeline Kahn as Mrs. White
- Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum
- Michael McKean as Mr. Green
- Martin Mull as Colonel Mustard
- Lesley Ann Warren as Miss Scarlet
- Colleen Camp as Yvette
- Lee Ving as Mr. Boddy
- Bill Henderson as The Cop
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Only Lesley Ann Warren, as a tough-talking madam, finds an effective level of stylization, using her leggy physique and wildly expressive features to create a cartoonish figure that's funny within its own boundaries.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The characters are less credible than their plastic counterparts, the puerile humour is dispiriting, and the plotting pulled this way and that by the conceit of releasing the film in the US with a trio of alternate endings.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Rotten
One ending is more than enough.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Though it takes only 87 minutes to arrive at one of its three different solutions, it has long since worn out its welcome by the denouement.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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