Splitting Heirs Reviews

Eric Idle, known best as an alumnus on the hilarious and popular sketch comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus, wrote and starred in Splitting Heirs as Tommy Patel, an Englishman who believes he's Indian. After his old boss, the 14th Duke, dies, a loopy American named Henry inherits the title of the 15th Duke, and Tommy finds out that he's not a Patel, but the real heir to the throne, and his real name is Thomas Henry Butterfly Rainbow Peace (because his parents were hippies).

Idle's character is awkward and likable, and you want him to win. However, Rick Moranis' Henry character is so delightfully ditzy that you can't help but laugh, and it helps that he isn't even the bad guy, either. But Catherine Zeta-Jones, as pretty as she is, is just a pretty face and a third of the love triangle. Barbara Hershey's character is the one who brings me the most disgust, by pursuing her own biological son Tommy, and that's incest, so NO. NONE OF THAT. (Okay to be fair, she didn't know yet.)

Despite what I've said before, the movie can be funny, particularly, the slapstick with Tommy's attempts to get Henry out of the picture. This is pretty much a guilty pleasure.

My rating: 5/10