marchingbandgeek
See No Evil, Hear No Evil is a very funny movie! Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are at their very best in this movie and even though it was not as popular or such a box office success as The Silver Streak or Stir Crazy were, I would argue that this movie is still the funniest movie they ever did together.Pryor plays a blind man with gambling debts who doesn't want to admit he is blind or needs help and Wilder plays a convenience store owner who doesn't want people to know he is deaf. Wilder ends up hiring Pryor to work in his store and through a series of events outside their control they end up framed for a murder and have to go on the run.Also Kevin Spacey is one of the villains in this movie, doing a British accent.
Leofwine_draca
SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL is a fine '80s-era comedy that features a couple of big names pairing up. These are Richard Pryor, delivering an utterly convincing performance as a bolshy blind bloke; and Gene Wilder, a whimsical delight as a deaf guy with a chip on his shoulder. The two get engaged in a murder plot involving a gorgeous femme fatale and a youthful Kevin Spacey playing a British baddie. As expected, there's a lot of character interplay here, a lot of slapstick, and a lot of bad language, but it's nonetheless clean entertainment and also very funny. Pryor and Wilder have a ball as the odd couple and the highlights, like the car chase scene, are really very good.
Mr-Fusion
"See No Evil, Hear No Evil" has one of those really great gimmicks: two witnesses to a murder - one blind, one deaf - are also the prime suspects. This finds Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor knee-deep in one hazardous situation after another, and the movie really prides itself on the physical comedy of its performers. The whole police station sequence, from the mugshot through the interrogation is pure gold.Pryor and Wilder have a natural chemistry that makes everything run smoothly, despite the improbability of a lot of what goes on here. The movie didn't work so well for me when the larger industrial espionage story took hold, but the broad comedy of the leads is definitely worth the price of admission. And for the delightfully naked Joan Severance, in all honesty.In the end, it's really just a delightful '80s comedy.7/10
SnoopyStyle
Wally Karue (Richard Pryor) is blind and he doesn't like it. Dave Lyons (Gene Wilder) is deaf, and runs a newspaper stand. Wally gets a job from Dave, and quickly becomes fast friends. One day, a man comes in. After an argument with Eve (Joan Severance), she kills him. Both Wally and Dave only partly witness the incident. The incompetent police arrests the duo but then they escape. Eve and Kirgo (Kevin Spacey) are after the duo for a valuable coin.Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder are always fun together. The gimmick allows the guys to have some hilarious back and forth. The mug shot scene was gut busting funny. While the joking around is funny, the caper doesn't work as well. In the end, the movie works as an excuse for the guys to go crazy.