It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Take two excellent comedic actors-Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder-and a brilliantly simple premise-a blind man and a deaf man are wrongly suspected of a murder- and what you have is See No Evil, Hear No Evil, a side-splitting farce in which the disabled pair, Wally (Pryor) and Dave (Wilder), have to try and prove their innocence by tracking down the real villains (played by sexy Joan Severance and Kevin Spacey).With Wally unable to see and Dave having to lip read, the scene is set for some incredibly funny knockabout comedy and hilarious verbal interchanges, ably handled by veteran director Arthur Hiller (who also worked with Pryor and Wilder on Silver Streak in 1976).There are way too many funny moments to list, but my favourites are when Dave misunderstand's bad-tempered cop Braddock (Alan North), thinking he has said 'Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman', and Wally, posing as a Swedish gynecologist, giving a talk on multiple orgasms in geriatric women!Also worth a mention: Severance's shower scene (the actress going topless) and Kevin Spacey's facial cyst (the actor had it removed soon after, but here it is so big that it deserves a screen credit all of its own).7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

The odd pairing up of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryer always seems to work as it does in their other films! The film focuses on the misunderstandings and mishaps they get themselves into after they unknowingly become witness to a murder. Although Wilder is deaf and Pryor is blind, they use ingenious and resourceful ways of solving the crime together! They are funny because of the situations they get themselves into, not their disabilities. At one point, they end up stuck on a refuse carrier boat crossing the river because Pryor was trying to escape by driving a car which ended up on the boat even though he's blind! At some points in the film, you realize how intolerant and harsh the world is toward anyone with frailties, which brings you back down to earth with a bump. Though, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are two highly underrated talents before the camera. The adventures that these two poor characters go through is something that a wide audience can enjoy. The use of two ailments such as deafness and blindness is not exploited or made fun of, just used for great comic timing and situations. Also Stewart Copeland of the rock band The Police wrote the soundtrack music for this film. What else to say...Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

How has this film only got an overall rating of 6.7? I think this film is brilliant, i never fails to make me laugh, it was very enjoyable watching it years ago and i still enjoy watching it now. Terrific actors, they play their roles perfectly.I think it is brilliant, i can't see why people wouldn't like this film. If you are looking for a good comedy, with great actors and guaranteed to make you laugh then this is the film for you. A great family film.In fact this film is AMAZING to say it is an old-ish film (i am not usually into the old-ish films).Deserves an 8 / 10 at least.

You definitely have to have a "Family Guy" type of humor to like this somewhat tactless film about a deaf man (Gene Wilder) and his blind store clerk (Richard Pryor) who are accused of murder and go on the run to expose the real criminals. When Pryor's bookie is murdered inside Wilder's Manhattan convenience store (while his back is turned and Pryor hears the gunshots), it is obvious that they will end up being accused, and the absence of their different senses draws them together as they must support each other and communicate only through Wilder's ability to read lips and Pryor's ability to hear. A combination of both a "Road" movie and Mel Brook's "High Anxiety" (already a spoof itself, of Hitchcock films), this utilizes much tactless humor to give us the adventure which leads up to the obvious conclusion. While "High Anxiety" took Brooks and Madeline Kahn all over San Francisco, this film gives us a look at late 80's Manhattan, from the very lower east side, an obvious under construction West Side Highway and ultimately somewhere in New Jersey. The chase seen is to this film what San Francisco was to "Bullitt", and it never lets you look away. Pryor and Wilder don't have the good material here that they had in "Silver Streak" and "Semi-Tough", but unless you are too politically correct to enjoy a good laugh at the expense of the handicapped, you will find yourself embarrassed by laughing. Wilder's character, in particular, is an angry deaf man, and the initial meeting between him and Pryor (plus a later fight between the two of them and a bully in a bar) are truly angry in the way they deliver their humor. Kevin Spacey is one of the villains.