Back to the Eighties...

This weekend The Movie Snob decided to check out that early 80’s classic Arthur, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli. Even a helpful fellow customer at Blockbuster Video encouraged the Snob to rent this piece of cinematic history. Well, maybe tastes have just changed in the 22 years since this movie came out, but in any event this was a truly horrible movie experience. Moore plays the title character, a completely spoiled heir to some massive fortune who apparently spends all his time getting drunk and making a fool of himself by finding dates on street corners and taking them to fancy restaurants. Just as his crusty father turns the screws on Moore to marry an equally wealthy woman (who is inexplicably willing to marry this buffoon), he meets the Minnelli character while she is shoplifting a tie. Will he marry for money? Will he abandon his fortune to follow his heart? Will he ever stop making that terribly abrasive laugh he feigns when he is supposedly drunk? Favorite part of the movie: the closing credits. Grade: F.