I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Sadly Over-hyped

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It was inevitable that there was going to be a movie like "Start the Revolution without Me". Directed by Bud Yorkin, producer of "All in the Family" and "Sanford & Son", it depicts two pairs of brothers (peasants and aristocrats) getting switched at birth and playing a role in the French Revolution while practically everyone in the palace is plotting against everyone else.The movie is based on some of the notable French novels dealing with the era. "The Corsican Brothers" also got adapted into a movie by Cheech and Chong (it was probably the lowest of their movies). This one also reminded me of the 1988 comedy "Big Business" starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler. But whatever the case, Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland put on fine performances. I especially liked Wilder's neurotic peasant who's grown up as an aristocrat. A good time for all. And the ending? You'll have to wait and find out.The rest of the cast includes Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur), Jack MacGowran (The Exorcist), Billie Whitelaw (Hot Fuzz), Victor Spinetti (A Hard Day's Night), Ewa Aulin (Candy), Murray Melvin (Barry Lyndon) and Orson Welles.

Wow... worst movie I have seen in years. Forced, corny, an obvious attempt to create something akin to Monty Python and it just fell flat as day old beer. Both Sutherland and Wilder have done so much better work, but this was a bomb! It really does resemble something that would have come out of a high school drama class if they had access to the camera sets and costumes. Bad, just really... bad.

In mid-16th Century France, a Duke brings his pregnant wife to the village doctor where she delivers twin boys--but the dotty nursemaid and the exasperated doctor mix the babies up with the newly-born twin boys of another couple, a peasant farmer and his wife, with each couple getting one correct child and one wrong. Thirty years later, the two sets of mismatched twins meet, but not before the peasants stage a revolt against bumbling King Louis XVI. Filmed entirely on location, this Bud Yorkin farce looks almost too good, too authentic for the pratfalls and slapstick nonsense which he stages on opulent castle grounds; the historic minutiae dwarfs the loosely-hinged plot, which isn't fully thought out to begin with. Worse, Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland fail to become the Abbott and Costello team the filmmakers probably hoped they'd be. Wilder sticks to his short-fuse mania and gets off some big laughs, but Sutherland's preening fop/subdued street fighter never quite emerges as a three-dimensional character. Yorkin overdoses on swashbuckling action, a handful of riffs on Dumas, and some playful girl-ogling, yet at the expense of developing these characters (even the sequence where the peasant brothers are mistakenly brought to the castle falls flat on a narrative level, with a ruse about a violin case that feels pretty fatuous). However, there are several witty verbal duals which are smartly executed, and from a technical stand-point the film is keenly-judged--from the locations to the costumes to the music. But once the viewer realizes the movie is just a series of blackout sketches, the trimmings seem rather lofty and the frenzied footwork seems much ado about little. ** from ****

The movie was made in about 1970, so this is an early Wilder vehicle. Also starring Donald Sutherland, it's quite simply both dreadful and technically inept. At about that time, the British movie industry was turning out garbage such as "Holiday on the Buses", Steptoe and Sons" etc, i.e. TV spinoffs. This ranks only slightly above that in terms of production values. All outdoor scenes are looped, and badly looped at that - I wouldn't bet the farm that it was the original actors voicing over. The direction seems to have been minimal, and in some scenes it's painful watching Wilder basically running unchecked - I consider that the director's fault, not Wilder. Sutherland is completely miscast. The usual collection of British bitpart suspects are there, Spinetti, Fowler, etc. Absolutely dire.