I thought I hadn't seen this movie, but while watching it I had a palpable sense of déjà vu, so it is likely I have seen it before. Anyway, it must have been before 1983.
A famous comedian dies and his staff gather together at a hotel to decide what to do about their careers. They spot a natural comicity in the hotel's bellboy and decide to manufacture a replacement out of him for the deceased actor.
An uneven, unsatisfactory comedy. As someone nicknamed Anne_Sharp has remarked on the User Reviews section at IMDB, this is a variation on The Girl Can't Help It. A few set-pieces are fine, for example the one at the singing teacher's, but they are rather the exception. Maybe kids could like it, as the humor and the plot are kept at a very simple level, and there is a tendency to sentimentality, which gradually seeps in as the film advances. When the main character is being clumsy, he gets some laughs. When he is being unfunny, he does not. It is relatively easy to make clumsiness funny, but it is very hard, perhaps impossible, to make unfunniness funny.
Rating: 44
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