Rabbit Test

Name: Rabbit Test
Genre: Comedy
Released: April 9, 1978
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 20

1978

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AVCO Embassy Pictures | Release Date: April 9, 1978 | PG

Summary: Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 84 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This story, directed and cowritten by Joan Rivers, had been done before and somewhat better by Frenchman Jacques Demy in the 1973 film A SLIGHTLY PREGNANT MAN. Read full review

Drew Mcweeny

It's too busy, to unsure of itself, too desperate to please. Read full review

Phil Hall

The primary problem with “Rabbit Test” was that it was based on a hoary one-joke concept – in this case, a man becomes pregnant. But Rivers had no clue how to take the concept and expand it into a flowing, coherent comedy script. Read full review

Gary Arnold

In the annals of overcompensatory anal-retentive joking, Rivers may have succeeded in carving out an even lower niche for herself. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Situations aren't explored, characters aren't developed, timing is ignored, but every 30 seconds there's a would-be laugh. Because all we're supposed to do is laugh, the movie is deadening. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Rabbit Test’s failure is understandable: It’s pretty much a terrible movie. Directed more like a sitcom than a film and full of dud jokes that feel like they’re waiting for a laugh track to kick in, it’s a good example of how the comedian’s ten-wisecracks-a-second humor didn’t necessarily translate to a narrative medium. Read full review

Judith Martin

What makes it so bad is the jokes, a collective of offensive jokes - imagine uncomic Polish jokes applied to every race, religion, form of life and nationality, even including Polish - which are so poorly acted out by a cast including Imogene Coca, Alice Ghostley, George Gobel, Fannie Flagg and Roddy McDowall that they actually sound funnier in the recounting that they are on film. Read full review

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