Roger Ebert - Host: [regarding "North"] When it came time to write my newspaper review of this movie, I dunno, something just came over me, my fingers on the keyboard had little minds of their own, I was rolling along, writing my usual scathing but civilized comments, when suddenly, a sinister inner force took over, and I found myself typing, and I quote: "I HATED this movie! Hated hated hated hated hated this movie! Hated it! Hated every simpering, stupid, vacant, audience-insulting moment of it!" Unqoute. And so on. Altogether, I used the word "hated" ten times. I have to give "North" credit for one thing, though: When I was preparing for this show, I didn't have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out which was the year's worst movie. So, it saved me time.
Gene Siskel - Host: You know, I talked to the writer of this picture, I was so thunderstruck by Alan Zweibel, and I think that maybe these guys and Rob Reiner are using a, uh, sort of old style comedy that really has just gone out of fashion. It was funny sometimes when Mel Brooks took some of these caricatures in the early seventies, but he did it with a kind of liveliness. This stuff just clangs.