Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Brilliant and touching

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) is known as the Rock n' Roll Detective. He's a hard-smoking, womanizing, Hollywood private eye who is well connected in the music scene. Jazz (Lauren Holly) is his loyal assistant. Everybody pays him in gifts. Lead singer Bobby Black and his band is supposed to be the new sensation. He ODs on stage during a performance. His school friend obnoxious shock-jock Johnny Crunch hires him to find his daughter-sister-daughter Zuzu Petals. Crunch is quickly killed. Investigating cop Lt. Amos (Ed O'Neill) has an old grudge against him. The Kid hires him to find his dad. Colleen Sutton hires him to find her sister Zuzu Petals. Zuzu turns out to be a groupie to Bobby Black. There's a crazed hit-man (Robert Englund) and record executive Julian Grendel (Wayne Newton).It's crass, it's loud, and it's irreverent. I can certainly see many being offended by Andrew Dice Clay's crude character. For me, it's funny. It's basically an alternate world where Andrew Dice Clay's alter-ego exists. He's actually funnier when he's being a little stupid. There're some fun back-and-forth with Zuzu. For people not easily offended, this is good crass irreverent fun.

This film is the perfect comedy/action film of its era! This film is absolutely perfect in every way! Andrew dice Clay is perfect in the part. The writing is excellent. The acting is good. The comic timing is impeccable. Everything works! The music is fantastic. Lauren holly is gorgeous! Clay is in his prime, and at his peak. Everything about this film is perfect! Wayne Newton as the bad guy, is great. Ed O'Neal is great. People want to hate on Clay, but he was the most popular comedian at the time! He literally was a rock star of comedy! I highly recommend this movie! It is like the perfect snapshot of the late 80's/early 90's.

How much Andrew Dice Clay is too much? After watching this movie it's clear that 104 minutes is way, way, way too much. An "action comedy" with no actual action or comedy The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a miserable failure. No surprise that Clay never starred in another movie after this turkey. This is the type of movie which could kill even a good actor's career. And Clay, as is made painfully clear throughout this movie, is not a good actor. He's basically playing himself and he can't even do that right. His act grows very tired very quickly. Can't think of anything legitimately funny to do? Eh, just toss out the f-word again. Hilarious, right? Nope. This is a movie with an awful script. With the terribly uninteresting story of Clay's Rock n' Roll Detective solving a crime we are never given any reason to care about at all the movie was always doomed to fail. But if the story stinks it's the acting which really makes this an absolutely painful movie-watching experience. Clay is awful, but we could have figured that. But he gets absolutely no help from his eclectic supporting cast. How eclectic? Well there's Freddy Krueger, Al Bundy, Elvis Presley's wife, that incredibly annoying guy who used to voice the insurance duck, Tone Loc, Wayne Newton and a koala bear. Everyone in this group has their awful moments but you haven't experienced true hell until you've been subjected to Al Bundy's Booty Time. That's this movie's worst moment. And that's saying something because this is a movie of nothing but potential worst moments.

One of my all time fav's!! This movie has the best one liners. I gave the movie only a 9/10 cuz the story was a bit cheesy in parts. But the Grendel conspiracy in the movie is what has ACTUALLY happened in the music business. That is the sad irony of this movie. But to get over that depression, just watch the movie and the laughs will cure you. This is Dice's trophy performance. Mostly a good supporting cast also. But Dice just outshines everybody here. But the one liners are irreplaceable and timeless. But you also have to deliver them in that same voice. Dice Rules!!