MGM's been releasing out-of-print selections from its library for a while now; while it's been nice to show oddities like Arizona Dream the light of day, this process has also unearthed some residual byproducts of the studio system that probably didn't need to exist in the first place. Don't Worry We'll Think Of A Title is just such a film. Inept, irritating, and profoundly unfunny, Title simply wreaks of non-effort on the part of a few creative people, talented and otherwise. It may occupy some time while you're waiting to die or other morose activity, but under no circumstances go out of your way to see it.
Charlie Yuckapuck (Morey Amsterdam) is one of those foundationless comedic characters loose enough to allow an actor to behave however he feels like in any given scene; here, he is a short-order at a diner, and is alternately foolish and sharp-tongued in interacting with fellow employee Annie (Rose Marie) and boss Mr. Travis (Richard Deacon). His most distinguishing feature seems to be that he bears a remarkable resemblance to a defecting Soviet cosmonaut, and so spies start following him around. For no real reason, obligatory attractive coworker Magda (January Jones) inherits a bookstore in a college town, and Charle and Annie go to work for her.
It’s completely grating sense of humor aside, Title is so incoherent in its plotting that its title is less of a whimsical promise than a threat, as if they literally hadn’t thought any further than the fact that they were making a film. Rose Marie gives it her best, and Richard Deacon seems an agreeable enough straight man, but the entire cast of It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World would be powerless to arrest Amsterdam’s mugging.
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"Don't Worry We'll Think Of A Title" is on sale October 18, 2011 and is not rated. Comedy. Directed by Harmon Jones. Written by Morey Amsterdam, John Hart, William Marks, George Schenck. Starring Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Richard Deacon.
