Wholly Moses!

1980

Action / Comedy / Fantasy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 13% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 2391 2.4K

israel moses god spoof

Director

Gary Weis Photo
Gary Weis

Top cast

John Houseman Photo
John Houseman as Archangel
Jack Gilford Photo
Jack Gilford as Tailor
Maryedith Burrell Photo
Maryedith Burrell as Villager
Michael Champion Photo
Michael Champion as Sodom Sentry
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951.72 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 2
1.73 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kevin_robbins 5 / 10

This is a movie that should have been great...but wasn't

Wholly Moses! (1980) is a movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a pair of tourists traveling through Israel who discover a scroll of the biblical Herschel who was the actual person behind the events in the bible that Moses received credit for. They discover Herschel's path to fame and how Moses stole all of the credit.This movie is directed by Gary Weis (LA Law) and stars Dudley Moore (Arthur), Dom DeLuise (Blazing Saddles), Richard Pryor (Harlem Nights), John Ritter (Sling Blade), Laraine Newman (Coneheads) and James Coco (Murder by Death).This cast is absolutely amazing - from the main characters to the side characters to the cameos, really impressive list of actors. Unfortunately, while this concept had potential, and the cast was awesome, it wasn't really that funny. There are a bunch of random and fun circumstances, and Ritter and Pryor were excellent in their roles. I just wanted this movie to be funnier.Overall, this is a movie that should have been great...but wasn't. I would score this movie a 5/10 and recommend seeing it once.
Reviewed by HotToastyRag 6 / 10

Funny if you like anachronistic humor

Released the year before The History of the World: Part One, Dudley Moore took his own crack at a biblical spoof: Wholly Moses! In it, a group of modern tourists are being bused through Israel, and during a lunch break, two of them (Dudley and Laraine Newman) wander off and come across an ancient scroll telling the tale of a man who lived through Biblical times but wasn't included in any text. Parts of it are really funny, like when Dudley does all the classic things Moses did in the Bible - but not really. He thinks he parted the waters, but really someone else dammed up the river with boulders. He thinks he can cure the blind and lame, and when he comes across a beggar with both afflictions, he declares his intention to fix his ailments. The beggar is faking it to get money from the townspeople, so when Dudley pokes his eye, he exclaims, "What are you trying to do, blind me?" Everyone is impressed because he can "now" obviously see. Other parts aren't that great, as it's easy to imagine the screenwriters just thought the jokes were funny while sitting around the table or rehearsing. Some jokes are milked too much, and if you don't like anachronistic humor, you don't stand a chance at laughing.I thought James Coco was very cute as Dudley's father and devoted slave. You'll see tons of familiar faces in the supporting cast, from cameos to larger parts: Richard Pryor, Dom DeLuise, Jack Gilford, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, Paul Sand, and John Ritter. You can give it a shot, and if you laugh at about fifty percent of the jokes, you'll probably enjoy it. If you can't stand it after about twenty minutes, it won't get any better for you.
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