Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection - Vol. 2 (You're Never Too Young / Artists and Models / Living It up / Pardners / Hollywood or Bust)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Martin
EAN: 0097360422344
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 50
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: D042234D
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 489 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A New York millionaire becomes the sheriff of Carson Valley; a movie buff and a gambler travel to Hollywood and have misadventures along the way; a young man pretends to be dying to get an expense-paid trip to New York City; Wilbur must disguise himself as a twelve-year-old boy when he inadvertently becomes involved in a robbery; an artist gets ideas for his comic books from his roommate's dreams, until they turn telepathic and Russian spies get into the act.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Surely even the French, with their legendary love of all things Jerry Lewis, will be sated by the Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection: Vol. 2, a three-disc package containing five comedy-musicals released on DVD for the first time. It would be a supreme stretch to call any of the five films in question (You're Never Too Young, Artists and Models, Living It Up, Pardners, and Hollywood or Bust) a classic, but then, anyone looking for challenging storylines and deep characterizations probably wouldn't be here in the first place. What the films offer instead are various breezy diversions, in the form of Martin, the suave, smooth talking cad and crooner; a parade of lovely young women (Dorothy Malone, Anita Ekberg, Janet Leigh, and Shirley MacLaine among them); some terrific musical numbers that are the highlights of their respective films; and, of course, the antics of Lewis, whose capacity for slapshtick and mugging is apparently inexhaustible. By this time (the mid-1950s), the two had already fit comfortably into their respective personae, with Lewis as the naïve, ingenuous rube and Martin right there to take advantage of him. In Artists and Models, Martin's aspiring painter cops ideas from the frenzied dreams of his comics-obsessed roommate (Lewis, natch) and creates a hit comic of his own, a simple story that's derailed by an absurd and unnecessary subplot involving the U.S. government and some enemy agents. Living It Up, adapted from an earlier musical called Nothing Sacred, finds Lewis cajoled by Martin, his doctor (talk about a stretch!), into pretending that he's suffering from radiation poisoning so they can both enjoy a lavish trip to New York courtesy of a newspaper trying to boost circulation by playing up the "dying" man's plight. Hollywood or Bust, a combination road picture and gentle spoof of the movie biz, casts Martin as a gambler and con man accompanying film fanatic Lewis on a trip to Tinseltown, while Pardners is a Wild West romp ("Jerry Lewis as a gunslinger" about sums it up) and You're Never Too Young puts Lewis totally in his element as he impersonates a 12-year-old boy in order to escape bad guy Raymond Burr. The plots are thin, at best, and the songs are hardly Oscar caliber. Still, the two stars have an undeniable chemistry, and the musical set pieces are highly entertaining, most notably a sort of pas de duh (sic) between Lewis and MacLaine in Artists and Models and an eye-popping, show-stopping dance number in Living It Up. In the end, it all basically comes down to one's capacity to endure Lewis' manic mannerisms (it's worth noting that by Hollywood or Bust, the pair's last collaboration, he's pretty thoroughly upstaged by a Great Dane). If even this cornucopia isn't sufficient, perhaps a move to France is in order. The set contains no bonus material. --Sam Graham
Average Rating: 
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This is a wonderful collection of movies. If you are a Martin and Lewis fan, you can't go wrong with this collection.
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It's sad to realize how sour the relationship between Dean & Jerry became when you watch these light-hearted comedies. The films are blessed with high production values and shot in bright, beautiful color. Paramount has done a beautiful job preparing these for DVD--it looks like they have actually gone back to the original VistaVision negatives for the transfers. I was constantly amazed while watching these films of just how good they looked. Plus, they're still funny and don't need to resort to ... Read More
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A little of these guys go a long way, so you probably won't watch them all in a hurry. I was a fan as a kid so I did enjoy seeing these again but you can see how Jerry Lewis just got wilder and wilder as they go along. He just didn't know when enough was enough. Still I like most of the films, all of which are re mastered to a high standard. Nice packaging also.
I think my favorite film of the set is Pardners but couldn't say why.
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I was there when they made this, I was 16 and looked 16, but they thought I was 18 looking 16. It was summer vacation and my music teacher got me the gig. I drove to Hollywood at 5 in the morning everyday for 2 weeks, I was in one shot, at the school when Dean says "here comes the reception committe now".. a girls band starts out and the music was "face the music", I even remember the words. As I said I was there for 2 weeks, and made 50 dollars a day. We sat on the sidelines and waited in case ... Read More
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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection - Vol. 2 (You're Never Too Young / Artists and Models / Living It up / Pardners / Hollywood or Bust) This is comedy at it's finest. Relive the golden years of Dean and Jerry. This collection contains several of my favorites. Living it up is a remake of the 1937 comedy classic Nothing Sacred and my favorite one in this collection.
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