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MOVIES THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
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Rating: ** The third "installment" of the Invisible Man series, if you will, is a mixed bag. It is certainly no horror film, but more of a comedy. There's this rich playboy, you see, well, actually, he's no longer rich because he parties, womanizes, and finances a wacky professor's experiments. Well, this time, the professor has done it. He has invented an invisibility machine. The professor tells the playboy he'll be rich, as soon as he gets a victim, rather a volunteer. He puts an ad out in the paper, and who should answer it but a model. Who else would want to become invisible? And why does this attractive and spunky woman want to be unseen? To assault her tough boss, that's why. Anyway, the experiment works, the girl gets revenge on her boss, and the professor is happy - well, if he could keep the invisible girl around long enough for the playboy to (not) see her and be convinced his invention works. And there's a whole second story involving a bunch of thugs (one of which is Shemp Howard, of The Three Stooges fame), who attemp to steal the device so they can disassemble it and bring it to Mexico so that their homesick boss can return to the States. It's very wacky. The movie goes for laughs full bore. Her invisibility, the fact that she's a woman, her nakedness; they're played for all the jokes they can muster. The fainting butler, the bumbling crooks, the stereotypical characters. It's certainly nothing new, but it is entertaining. The special effects are decent, but you can see the strings in a few scenes. Overall, not great, but not horrible, either. Did you notice: The professor's housekeeper was the Wicked Witch of the West? Quality:
3.5 Visuals: 4.5 Intensity: 4.0 Laughability: 3.0 reviewed 2005
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