Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonThe most underestimated commercial movie of 1987 may not be quite as good as Elaine May's three previous features, but it's still a very funny work by one of this country's greatest comic talents. |
| FlavorwireJason BaileyIt's a film that resists categorization, staking a claim on a weird, absurdist territory of its own. For that, in the maddeningly generic landscape of '80s multiplexes, it was crucified. Now it's celebrated. And rightfully so. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrEnter Charles Grodin, who upstages all involved via his savagely comical portrayal of a CIA agent. |
| United Press InternationalCathy BurkeThis big, overblown comedy starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty is thoroughly likable despite all the hype. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinBesides droll supporting work from an excellent Charles Grodin, Ishtar also gets a lot of mileage out of its terrible and terribly funny songs. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonMaybe [it's] actually okay; maybe parts of it [are] even great. |
| TimeRichard SchickelIshtar is an unabashed vamp for a pair of household names, and as such it works, often hilariously. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayIf Ishtar has a personal stamp, it's not in what it has to say about Reagan-era militarism, but in what it has to say about collaboration, and how well-meaning people can goose each other to greatness-and folly. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA victim of its own hyped publicity and too harsh criticism, Ishtar is not the worst movie ever made or even a bomb, just a dim-witted silly comedy-thriller (with some good jokes) based on the casting against type of Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. |
| FulvueDrive-in.comChuck O'LearyThe intentionally bad songs and the early scenes in New York City are amusing, but the movie totally falls apart once Beatty and Hoffman arrive in the fictional country of Ishtar. |
