I waited eight years for this? It's disappointing to find such uninspired casting choices as Michael Gambon, playing Larry Appleton (though strangely renamed "Raymond" in this film) in an unassuming, uncharismatic and decidedly raw interpretation of the nervous Cousin Larry. One would expect our classic principals in a reunion film, but the one surprise twist was seeing Balki as a woman! Lindsay Duncan takes the wacky foreigner to a whole new level with her feminist spin on the classic character. Not for the purist, but any hardcore fan might well want to give Stephen Poliakoff's reinterpretation a hard look, taken, of course, with a grain of salt.
Review of Perfect Strangers
