I didn't like The Jerk so much, and Michael Caine has only made a brief appearance in Inception for my blog, so I have a lot of love for Caine and Steve Martin that has yet to be really and genuinely tapped this year. Enter Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: a movie I've heard good things about but have not yet seen.
Caine and Martin play confidence men who have a wager to see who can swindle Glenne Headly (the American soap queen... whatever that actually means) out of 50,000 francs. I'm in Kalamazoo visiting friends, so we'll make this short: I really enjoyed it. And the best part was the bar scene with the two sailors commiserating with Steve Martin's "handicap". Way better than The Jerk. Saw the ending coming (in some form or another) from a mile away, but it was still good fun.
Score: 8/10
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