And here we have a movie which, let's face it, none of us would have any rememberence of today were it not for the identity of the co-star in the title role. (Or maybe some of us don't remember it. For those poor/enlightened souls, I will leave you to your ignorance. Or maybe I won't. We'll see if I can get all the way through this movielog entry without blurting it out.)

It's a decent movie. Not bad, for a comedy. Certainly nothing groundbreaking, however. I laughed. I got into it. I enjoyed the characters. And, with the help of the director/producer/writer commentary track, I noticed many of the subtleties which would have slipped by otherwise. The original alternate ending was quite hilarious as well.

I suppose all of us, at one time or another, have wondered or dreamed about being a different person. What would it be like to transcend the ordinary lives in which we live? If we lost our memories, and were suddenly supplanted into some wild other life style, could it really help to change who we are?

Amidst such questions upon which the plot is founded, there's a lot of funny, wacky screwball moments in this movie. As with a lot of comedies which employ mistaken identity as a comic device, this one uses it to full advantage to draw laughs.

Beyond that, there is a delicious irony in how the title character is deified by the lead character, when compared with how the person who actually played the title character was -- after the filming was complete -- deified by all those...

Ok, I think I'll stop there before I bring all those poor souls out of their ignorance.

This was a fun little movie.