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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9786305162018
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305162018
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 10, 1998
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 7306
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 1991
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Get spooked silly when Chevy Chase and Demi Moore take a wrong turnpike exit and find 'hanging judge' Dan Aykroyd and 'constable' John Candy in a bizarre New Jersey burg. Year: 1990 Director: Dan Aykroyd Starring: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Demi Moore, John Candy
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Rating:  - NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (WARNER BROS./1991)
REVIEW: As the old cliche goes: comedy is a very subjective art form. What some people find hilarious to the point of hysterics, others may see as scraping the bottom barrel of stupidity. But if comedy itself is the hardest medium to master then BLACK comedy (that is: comedy which finds humor in the most distasteful of subject matter) is nearly impossible to bring across on screen or in front of a live audience unless you have an innate genius for such ribald material (a la Alfred Hitchcock or Mel Brooks). Case in point here: Dan Aykroyd's deliberately whacked-out, over-the-top, disgusting, cornball of a movie "NOTHING BUT TROUBLE". In it he plays a 106-year-old Justice Of The Peace named Alvin Valkenheiser who presides over a carnival-house court, and who is quick to pronounce a death sentence for the most mundane of traffic violations. His latest "capture" is big-time stock report publisher Chris Thorne (Chase) who is helping a lady in distress (Moore) by driving her to Las Vegas in order to settle some personal business there. Also on board are two annoying South American "Brazillionares" who impose themselves upon Chase and Moore when they overhear their travel plans. On their way the two of them suggest they have a picnic: Moore agrees, Chase grumbles, and soon the foursome are zooming through Valkenvania where they get pulled over by patrolman John Candy. But their nightmare has only begun as they witness first-hand the outlandish antics of Justice Valkenheiser, are treated to a memorably bizarre ... Read More
Rating: - Not funny
Not funny, uninterestingly perverse in a non-sexual way; normally interesting actors trapped in a truly awful movie.
Rating: - Nothing.
The title should have been simply, "Nothing" I've seen some real stinkers over the years, but this film is in its own league. The film's only possible saving grace might be in using it in one of those old, "This is your brain on drugs." TV ads.
Rating:  - Whackier Than I Remember
This was a film that I loved as a child. Along with "Big", "The Burbs", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and a half a dozen others, if this film was on TV, I would stop everything and see it to its end. Generally, as I get older, I rarely watch a film more than 1 or 2 times. But these films of my childhood I have seen at least a dozen times. After not seeing this movie for at least eight years or so, I was surprised to see how much I remembered and even more surprised to see how much I just didn't "get" as a child.
The obvious that I never realized as a child: the judge's [...]-shaped nose, the hot dog the judge sloppily ate, Chevy Chase's sweet talking to Demi Moore, Tupac Shakur's cameo...etc.
The not-so-obvious was how totally messed up, sociopathic, criminally insane, whacked out of their skulls, the judge's family was. Wow, was this one freaky movie, no wonder I liked it so much as a kid.
Surely, as I watched it with a slightly maturer mind, I did not feel it was as exciting as I used to think it was. In fact, I am pretty sure that anyone who has not yet scene this movie and sees it today, will most probably think that this is a horrible film. However for those whom this film remains a part of their childhood, for [...] new or a [...] used on Amazon, I think its a good deal.
Oh and by the way, the ending to this film really stinks.
For film junkies, Peter Aykroyd, Dan Aykroyd's younger brother, wrote the story for this film. Dan ... Read More
Rating: - A weird movie, but sometimes weird is good
I notice that a lot of people either love or despise this film. Personally, I really liked it. The plot was fun, the scenary was great and many of the actors in it are people I hadn't seen in a movie in years. Ackroyd as a warped machanical genius set up in his own little Shire, hidden somewhere in the backwoods of New Jersey? Yeah, it doesn't make much sense but it does make for a few good laughs.
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