and Alan Arkin, come on. I would watch him paint his bathroom. I still think his performance in The Russians Are Coming, is one of the funniest performances in cinema history.

This movie has... no reason...

... to livvvvve!

Even Mr. Bean looks more entertaining than this.

let's just accept this is going to be a PoS. stay home. wait for it on cable, and fast forward through the boring parts.

...and...loving it.

as for the shoe phone gimmick, the tv show was in an age where there were no wireless phones and no cell phones. and generally, phones were big and heavy, and when you dailed them they went whrrrrrrrr dt dt dt dt dt whrrrrrr dt dt whrrrr dt whrrrr dt dt dt.

So in that time, even a portable phone would have been entirely impossible to hide on your person. "hey whats in the big box you always carry around? Are you a secret spy or something?"

So having it be a shoe made it something he could always have, that even when captured he'd likely not be without.