Step Lively, Jeeves is a quite curious picture. It takes the immensely popular butler Jeeves from the P.G. Wodehouse series of stories but neglects to take his foil, the upper class twit whom he serves, Bertie Wooster. It then decides to take the character traits associated with Wooster -- which are the exact opposite of the traits associated with Jeeves -- and graft them onto the unfortunate butler, while at the same time making sure he keeps his own traits. In normal circumstances, this would be a recipe for disaster. Fortunately, the filmmakers have on hand Arthur Treacher to portray this weird amalgam of characters, and the British character actor manages somehow to not only pull it off but to make Jeeves a quite entertaining piece of fluff. It's hard to figure out how Treacher manages this sleight-of-hand; he starts on his drunk scene, and one thinks, "Oh, dear, he's met his match now," for surely Jeeves would never behave in so Bertie-like a manner. But within a few seconds, one is enjoying the actors' turn so much that one shrugs and accepts it. Treacher really is the whole show here: the screenplay is mechanical, the direction is merely adequate. The supporting cast is good, but make no mistake: Treacher is the reason Jeeves works as well as it does.