Stir Crazy

After the excellent audience response to their teaming in Silver Streak, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor reunited for this zany comedy. Wilder and Pryor play a couple of out-of-work numbskulls who take a promotional job that requires them to dress up like gigantic woodpeckers. Unfortunately, a pair of ...more

Stir Crazy may very well be one of the purest definitions of a guilty pleasure. This ramshackle prison comedy survives a barely existent plot, rhythmless editing, and dull interiors because the stars, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, have such spectacular chemistry. The most memorable scene concerns Pryor and Wilder trying to act much tougher than they really are while walking into the prison for the first time ("We Bad, uh huh, we bad"). That scene crystallizes the aspects of the film that work. ...more