One of the worst movies ever made. Utterly incoherent. I'm told every actor involved wants this movie dropped from their C.V.s and I can understand why. Save yourself and don't take that shortcut.

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This film reminds me of a number of very bizarre early 1990's films "Freaked", "Death Becomes Her", "Meet the Feebles", and "People Under the Stairs", to name a few. There is a really good chance, if you liked any, or one of those films, this film will appeal to you. Though it is best to come to this film without expectations.I have seen the box of this movie many times since it came out, I would have been 6yrs when it came out originally, and the box intrigued me, but Dan Akroyd's get-up always repulsed me, and it still does! I found this movie very cheaply the other day and decided to buy it and give it a try, I discerned from the box this was either going to be as bad as "Class Reunion" was, which had a lot of hope, or it would be an entertaining and bizarre film that likely will never be largely enjoyed by the masses, and the latter ended up being true.We really never know anything about these characters, and that isn't the point. I actually find it irritating that critics always like to say "No character development" as an insult, sometimes, it honestly is a bonus. In a film such as this one, it is definitely a positive. Character development would have seriously bogged the pace of this movie, and it is very clear the point of this film is to be quirky, bizarre, and ridiculous. All of which it is. This is not a belly-laugh type comedy, it is very much a dark comedy, and at times, definitely induces some anxiety, and even a little fear. I think the only time I laughed was from John Candy, but revealing why would spoil some of the plot, and I don't want to do that. There are definitely a number of humorous set-ups and somewhat scary situations, that by the end turn out to be a bit humorous. This isn't a horror film, but it certainly has some elements, and certainly plays on some old horror tropes about hicks in tiny little towns, but in a way I have never seen in any other film. This is not a classic, though it might deserve a slight cult following, it is definitely a film worth revisiting if you hated it when you watched it 20yrs ago, or a film worth watching if you never did. I am confused as to how Akroyd got funding for this film, as it is just bizarre, but at the same time, I am really glad he did. It is kind of encouraging when weird films like this get made, and it is a shame Hollywood rarely makes anything this fun and silly anymore. That now anytime something isn't PC it gets run under the bus. Most of my favorite films are not PC, because PC doesn't allow for humor or satire or reality. It only allows lies and false perceptions in, period. If you don't have a bizarre sense of humor, stay far away. God Bless ~Amy

Have you ever watched a movie that seemed great at the time, but by the eighth or twelfth viewing, it starts looking worse than you thought it was? I love Dan Aykroyd. He was and still is one of my top ten favorite talents to emerge from "Saturday Night Live." However, as far as being able to write, produce, direct and star in a film, he might have bit off more than he could handle. I saw a portion of this movie for the first time around 1995; it was the scene where Chevy Chase is tried before the judge, found guilty on trumped-up charges and sent through the roller coaster from hell to his death. That was it for me. I never knew what happened next for several years. What happened before that? Where did it go from there? I had to know. Some years passed, and I found the movie at the local library. (Yes, libraries actually rent movies, and they do it for free.) It turns out what I missed was Chevy Chase as a successful stock broker meeting Demi Moore, a really hot lawyer, and that's basically where things spring board. It starts out dull and boring and leaves you waiting to get into the plot. Chevy wants to take Demi out for a long drive down the coast to be alone, but in walks the late Taylor Negron from "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" and his girlfriend to horn in on the trip and pretty much get on everyone's last nerve, including the audience. They don't even have a purpose in this movie and are quickly shuffled out twenty minutes later after serving their purpose. After pressuring Chevy to break the law and get them all arrested, they all get dragged up before Dan Aykroyd in very heavy (and I do mean VERY HEAVY) prosthetics in a courthouse in the middle of several acres of junkyard surrounded by a moat. While this fat-suit gimmick worked out great for Eddie Murphy in "The Nutty Professor," Aykroyd uses it to become as gross, obnoxious and unappealing as possible. It's just not funny or really integral to the plot. The house and junkyard with its various "Addams Family" hidden room aspects are more intriguing, but we never see much of it. John Candy plays the judge's nephew, the only normal person in the judge's family, but Candy also gets stuck playing double-duty as his overweight and homely sister in a role that is both disturbing and uncomfortable for Candy. It's supposedly played for laughs, but it's not funny. The rest of the movie is pretty much about Chevy and Demi trying to escape with Chevy getting trapped into a marriage with the homely fat niece and sent through the aforementioned roller coaster to his death. Luckily, it conks out before truly chewing him up. Unfortunately, he's basically sleepwalking through the scenes and phoning in his dialogue without the energy or personality of Clark Griswold. Demi Moore tries playing her role straight, but it is not hard to see she's completely confused and dismayed by the script that isn't very funny and is actually frequently disturbing. It's basically "Deliverance" as a live-action horror cartoon, and it's not really helped by a disconnected musical interlude by a group I'm told calls itself Digital Underground. I'm never heard of them either, but they're the only good thing in this movie even if it gets disturbing to watch two young beautiful ladies rub up against Aykroyd in his fat latex old man costume. If this movie is what we can expect from the unbridled imagination that is Dan Aykroyd, all I can say is Thank-God for Harold Ramis for keeping him restrained enough to create "Ghostbusters."