The Jerk 1979 123movies

Watch: The Jerk 1979 123movies, Full Movie Online – Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as the adopted son of a black family, but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out for St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivete, until a simple invention brings him a fortune..
Plot: After discovering he’s not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 58,728
	83% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 674 Popularity: 11.84 | TMDB

Reviews:

Odd, clever humor makes “Jerk” lovable
“The Jerk” is an easy watch, something you can take in quickly and get plenty of good laughs from. While it’s not a comedy that strings together laugh-out-loud moments, it has its unique brand of humor grounded in both absurdity and plays on words. It’s the kind of humor that’s either a hit with someone or doesn’t quite do it for them. The more you look back and recall lines and moments from this film, however, the more it grows on you. It’s not about the big laughs, but the little things that make “The Jerk” special.

Steve Martin stars as Navin Johnson, a man who grew up thinking he was black and eventually sets out to find his greater purpose. Johnson is naive, stupid, ignorant, but lovable guy, and the film shows how the people around him turn him into…a jerk. This is easily Martin’s best character role. He does such a great job handling the subtlety of the humor without playing the absurd moments too over-the-top. He really carries this film.

The odd humor manifests itself through jokes like when Johnson tells his girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Peters) what their time together has felt like, describing first day as feeling like a week, the second day felt like two days, etc. and when he writes home to his family and says “remember when I dreamed about having a big house with _____?” and then he describes with great detail all the absurd rooms in his mansion he could never have actually dreamed of as a child. It’s all very original and will definitely appeal more to people who appreciate what makes each joke funny.

So the writing, which is mostly Martin and the acting, which is mostly Martin, are the aspects of the film most worthy of praise. None of the other characters are really written well enough to add anything significant to the comedy, so its the Steven Martin Show. In fact, if you’d told me he did it based on a Saturday Night Live character I would have easily believed you. Either way, this is an odd but easy to love, easy to watch comedy. It’s truly different and definitely stands out.

“Things are going to start happening to me now!”
For me there’s a very fine line between the dumb and dumber type of humor found in films like, well, “Dumb and Dumber”, and the cleverly nuanced nonsense coming from a comic genius like Steve Martin. This movie is pretty much a laugh riot from one end to another, with Martin’s character, Navin ‘The Jerk’ Johnson, hilariously moving from one situation to the next with total lack of self awareness. Oblivious to the danger posed by a motivated sniper (M. Emmet Walsh), astounded by the concept of profit motive as a carnival weight guesser, and wondrously beholden to the idea of cup o’ pizza, Navin is at once a complete simpleton and someone who’s insight serves to elicit respect and renown. There’s no way you can watch this picture and not crack up over the double dog cover-up when Navin runs out of his house naked with a neighbor watching from her yard. That scene is just so over the top that you’ll probably have to hit the pause button on your remote to maintain a semblance of composure before continuing. I think my favorite though was the black and white film strip of Martin as the cat juggler, which if you had to compare against the added DVD features of fish teasing, plant abusing, and pet dressing, I think the cat juggler was the best choice to include in the story. I get it that not everyone would find this film funny, but there’s just such an understated with and sophistication with Steve Martin’s screen writing and acting, that I can handle just about anything he appears in. With nice support from folks like Bernadette Peters, Jackie Mason and Bill Macy, this is a funny, funny film that gets better with repeat viewings. And for blues fans, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee make for an added bonus appearance. Get ready to laugh!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min), 34 min (Super 8-version in 2 parts)
Budget 4000000
Revenue 100000000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy
Director Carl Reiner
Writer Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias
Actors Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,542 m (Italy)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Super 8mm, 35 mm