mjhalta This is a very good comedy that has you laughing regularly! The acting is superb! The plot is excellent with an accelerating number of screw ups that in the end reaches a very satisfying conclusion. A lot of so called comedies have one or two laughs in them and they've gotten better ratings than this show. This show is full of laughs and crazy situations that leave you wishing they had made a sequel. I have watched this show several times and will do so again because it is that good. If I have company and people want to watch a comedy I may drag this movie out as not many people have seen it. It always gets a positive review and a lot of laughs. Anyone rating this movie less than a 7 at least should see a therapist!

vladimir jaksic A few years ago when I first saw a poster with Samuel and Nicolas, I immediatelly rented this movie. 'Cause I am a great fan of both and knowing that they are legendary actors I haven't imagine that this movie could be so average. But now I realized that. However this movie isn't bad at all. Story is interesting,some jokes are really good,Sam and Nicolas are a great couple , but I think that directing is most negative side of this motion picture. And maby Max Frye is the one who should be blamed because "Amos & Andrew" is so disappointing movie. Actually without of Sam and Nicolas this movie would be a complete disaster. At the end, I wouldn't recommend this movie to all who want a good comedy,but if you are a fan you can watch how your favourite actors made something more out of this movie.

monkey-man Amos & Andrew (1993).Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson) is a rich and successful black man who buys a vacation house in New England.And as he is unpacking some of his belongs the Neighbours see him and mistake him for a burglar so they call the police.After the police surround the house and try to kill him they realize that they made a big mistake.So the chef of the police decided to use a man in jail named Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) to fake a kidnapping of Andrew Sterling because he did not want bad publicity.I bought this movie a few weeks ago on a second hand video tape for a few dollars and i finally got around to watching it today.I never watched this movie before i bought it and i am glad i bought it because this movie is good and i can see myself watching this movie over and over again.Over all this movie is worth your time to watch and i think you will really enjoy this movie.My rating for this movie is 6 out of 10.

johnedit The reviews for `Amos & Andrew' are all over the place, from Leonard Maltin's `BOMB' to The Washington Post Style section critic's rave (though the Post's Weekend section reviewer gave it a devastating pan).Any movie that gets this range of reaction is not all bad, and `Amos & Andrew' has a number of redeeming values.Its racial satire (which can be serious as well as slapstick, often in the same minute) seems a natural extension of Stanley Kramer's `The Defiant Ones' (1958). In both films, a white and a black man are handcuffed together and escaping from the law.The differences between the films are telling, however. In `Defiant,' both men are racists. They know little about each other's race, except what they think is the bad stuff (if I remember the film correctly). But both are poor and, as the film reveals, have much more in common than they thought.In `A&A,' the black man is a third generation, college-educated upper middleclass professional. He has succeeded in a white world (Pulitzer-prize; well-paid for his books and screenplays; a celebrity and a college professor; and more). But he still dislikes and distrusts whites, with reason.The white man is a drifter and petty thief, but he doesn't dislike blacks; indeed, he probably knows them better than the black man. And he's as much an outsider as the black man.These ideas, and the comedy evolving from them, make `A&A' fascinating and, sometimes in a simplistic way, thought-provoking. The humor often is sharp and funny, though it can become too silly and off the point. So the film is both clever and stupid, original and cliché.I often found myself laughing out loud as the film piled on smart gag after smart gag, slowing down only at the obvious, familiar and overplayed ones.Some may find the basic premise, a black man thought to be a burglar only because he's seen in a house in an exclusive white neighborhood, as tasteless and offensive, or at least not played out with sufficient outrage.Others may be grateful that such a pointed idea was dramatized without self-righteous anger and superiority. To them, this modest, light touch conveyed the message much more effectively, especially to those who needed to hear it, than a harder-edged film might have.Overall, there's enough good stuff in 'A&A,' including the acting by Nicholas Cage (when he still was good) and Samuel L. Jackson to push the film to a 2 ½ to 3-star rating. It's worth a look.