5/5 What a great comedy !!!
  by A. Durand (Ojai, USA)
Please forget the amazon editorial review- he has no clue what this gem of a movie is about. No offense to him whatsoever. This movie still makes me laugh so much I have to pause the DVD several times EVERY time I watch it. It's pure silly fun and it's like a cinematic glass of champagne- Dom Perignon, please !

What is this movie about ? The so-called bygone era of the '30s with the tradition of the theatre deeply tied into it. The last scene brings both together in one of the best endings I've ever seen. It never takes itself seriously so why should we ? That's one of the things I love about The Imposters- it's a never-ending play on expectations and assumptions.

It's a challenge to write about movies or anything really, that references its own milieu. This isn't a movie about movies, thank goodness- instead it takes the aspects of an era of cinema and theatre that makes the writers, director and everyone involved in the creative process inspired to create their own version of an era that we have made nostalgic rather than alive and present. What a better way to celebrate that era but with a movie in our time that brings all that history right into this very moment ?

I do hope Stanley Tucci and company make more films like this. After Big Night and The Imposters I can watch anything they make ! And Oliver Platt in drag, alone, is worth the entire movie !

5/5 Perfect for theatre geeks! :)
  by J. Day (Brooklyn, NY USA)
This is one of my all time favorites! A collection of brilliant performers ham it up to create this stylized and off-the-wall adventure filled with kooky, zany characters. I LOVE the fact that they apparently had a "Jambon D'Or" (golden ham) to award daily to the most ridiculous performance. This is what happens when talented, imaginative people collaborate to see how much fun they can manage on a production!

4/5 No faking the laughs!
  by Frank Acton (Chicago-ish)
When you get two very funny guys (here it's Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt) together, the competition can cancel out the funny; here, however, we have a sophisticated piece of screwball slapstick that will light up any night. When two out-of-work actors decide to hop aboard a luxury liner in the '30's, it's a slew of sight gags and silliness that had me gasping. It's like a Vaudeville production of "Grand Hotel" and "Clue" on the Deep Blue. Get a tux and spend the bux for this one!

2/5 The Imposters DVD
  by Francis J. Simons (Hudsonville, MI)
When viewing this product on line, it was stated that this DVD was "like new condition." I'm not sure that I agree after recieving this DVD that had quite a few scratches on it, two of them pretty bad. It does play well, and that is the main thing I wanted. Listing it as "slightly scratched" would not have changed my mind about buying it, but I feel I was misled on the condition.

5/5 One of the finest comedies of my lifetime!
  by E. Perkins (Denton, TX USA)
The Impostors has been my favorite movie since I first saw it on VHS nearly a decade ago. It has retained its treasured place in my heart despite competing with the likes of American Beauty, Iron Man, The Fifth Element, and The Forbidden Kingdom, to name but a few of my other top cinematic picks.
Why, you may ask? Because the comedic timing is flawless. The dialogue is polished until it shines, multifaceted and gem-like. The actors are clearly having a blast; the sets are at once endearingly familiar and enticingly exotic; the costumes are perfect; and Platt and Tucci have the same chemistry that made Laurel and Hardy so famous. This movie is exquisite, and though I've seen it again and again, I still laugh hard enough to cry every time.