Pretty dumb, kind of like a bunch of people were sitting around with nothing to do, so they decided to make a movie. The premise was a little funny though – a bunch of people migrate to the wild west and realize, “This sucks, lets go back home!”. It was John Candy’s last movie – or was that Canadian Bacon?
I don’t know what to say about this movie. I have to tell my “driver school” story though. A few years back, I got a speeding ticket. It was a sunny California day, and I was headed to Santa Cruz down highway 17. The cop said I was going “80+”. He wrote me a ticket, gave me a speech, got back in his vehicle, and pulled-over another car before I could even figure out what was going on. In order to keep the ticket off my insurance record, I agreed to go to a day of traffic school. It was essentially one day of jail – I was stuck in a hotel conference room with a dozen others and couldn’t leave – a day down the toilet. A strange thing happened there though… Throughout the day, the “instructor” played the movie Uncle Buck on the video player. Every time we got back from a break, we’d see another 15-20 minutes of the movie. I wasn’t sure if it was some kind of way to keep us coming back (after all the movie is so compelling!), or if there was some kind of subliminal “drive safely!” message contained within Uncle Buck. Maybe it worked, I haven’t had a ticket since then.
This was just a fun, silly movie. I guess it’s worth seeing once. It’s hardly high art, but what can I say? What ever happened to Kerri Green?
Another funny movie with Bill Murray. I don’t remember what exactly was so funny about it… just go see it and laugh a few times.
I know a lot of people thought this was funny, and I do “get it”. It just didn’t “get me”. Sure, there were a few funny things, but there wasn’t enough to support an entire movie. I mean, Star Wars is SO easy to parody, they could’ve done a better job.
Hmmm, I wonder what would happen if we put Steve Martin and John Candy in a movie? It’s kind of like one of those cocktails that you made up late one crazy night (ok, I’ve never done that… but) um… I’m not sure where I’m going with this. It was good and funny and stuff, but so are a lot of movies.
A romance between John Candy and Ally Sheedy? Yes, that is the plot. John Candy is a “mama’s boy” too. Very strange, and difficult to accept. But if you do somehow accept the premise, I guess it might be an OK movie.
Suburbanites in the woods… la di da…