This newspaper comedy, starring Ronald Reagan (the poor man's Fred MacMurray), wouldn't be enjoyable to watch even if the jokes were good. They are spewed, as if out of a giant joke machine, about every two minutes, and punched like Dempsey. You can practically hear a cymbal strike each time they're rolled out. But, for all the build-up, the jokes are very predictable, without ingenuity or surprise. And one running joke is worse than that--a mentally disabled man, who has the intelligence of a small child, is used for humour. This aspect of the movie alone puts it beyond the pale, even if the jokes made by or against the mentally ill man were not as lame as the rest.
Review of Nine Lives Are Not Enough
