Blu-ray Review – Where’s Poppa?

For his third directorial outing, Carl Reiner goes dark, real dark, for 1970's "Where's Poppa?" A pitch-black comedy from writer Robert Klane, Reiner works extremely hard to preserve the material's extreme sense of humor, trying to generate a swirling atmosphere of absurdity to help buffer the screenplay's wilder forays into taboo humor. Much of it is dated, but the effort is undeniably fun as times, watching stars George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman, and Trish Van Devere commit entirely, easing tonal digestion as they eagerly portray the escalation of insanity. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com