
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.... (Full plot summary below)
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A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.
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| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonIt's a spree of a movie, one of the most impishly entertaining of Altman's career. Smart, sparkling, almost sinfully amusing. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallThe result is a little like a comedy crossed with a home movie. It is also, like many home movies, somewhat rambling, and overly dependent on knowing the names of all the players. |
| The SpectatorHilary MantelYou can't satirize industries that are inherently self-satirizing. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAltman and his writer, former Chicago Sun-Times reporter Barbara Shulgasser, should have gone further and been meaner; too many of his jokes are generic slapstick, instead of being aimed squarely at industry's targets. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkReady to Wear is all appetizers: the main course never arrives. Still, the critical savagery puzzles me. Altman's movie may be indefensible, but it's not unenjoyable. The fun of it is entirely superficial, like skimming a gossip column. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReady to Wear doesn't have enough substance to justify its length, nor does it possess enough raw humor to leaven the flat spots. The jokes are inconsistently funny, with some being worth giggles, some eliciting hearty chuckles, and some prompting little more than shrugs. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullI got the feeling that Altman didn't really have any idea what he wanted to say with this film (which he later conceded in a TV interview). |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksIt seems like a very long wait to get to the various punch lines. |
| San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannReady to Wear, though it boasts a few small delights, is unready to see. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyWhile the surfaces, backgrounds and sense of constant motion are authentic to their tinselly cores, what goes on among the fictional participants resembles gag-reliant improv routines that haven’t been entirely worked out. |