“Clue” is based on the board game “Cluedo” (or merely “Clue” as it is known in the U.S.). It is a devastatingly bad mystery comedy movie. Everybody in this movie looks bored and like they have been drained of their energy by some device from a science-fiction film.

In “Clue”, a group of strangers are invited to a mansion with each one of them being assigned pseudonyms such as Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd “Suburban Commando”, “Back To The Future”) and Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren “Cop”). When Mr. Boddy (Lee Ving “Flashdance”, “Black Moon Rising”) turns up dead, they realise that one of them is a killer.

Tim Curry (“Legend”, “Congo”) plays Wadsworth the butler. Even in a bad movie, Tim Curry can usually give a really good performance but here he seems to have his charisma sucked from him. It’s a real shame to see talented actors such as Curry and Lloyd appear in such an awful film. The characters are not remotely interesting and none of them made me laugh. The only one that is even remotely funny is the sexy French maid (Colleen Camp “Wayne’s World”) but the gags about her revealing uniform quickly wear thin (no pun intended).

“Clue” is essentially just about the gimmicks because it’s based on a board game and they also filmed three different endings with different cinemas showing different endings. All of the endings are bad but the whole movie is just awful. There’s a joke near the beginning where Curry accidentally steps in some dog mess and other characters can smell it, this gag is repeated several times when it was not particularly amusing the first time. The whole movie is repetitive and it is frightfully dull. I cannot believe how boring and unfunny “Clue” is and that is why I’m shocked to learn that it has developed a growing following over the years since its release.