Don't Believe the Hype

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Is it brilliant? The best darn parody since "Airplane"? Nah. But me and my drunken undergrad buddies thought it was funny enough to rent it more than a couple of times back in the early '90s. And I wouldn't mind another look at it, I tell you what. It was funny enough for an evening. Better than the average sitcom anyway. Gosh. Apparently, I need to write 10 lines. But this little movie is not really worth an additional character study, plot analysis or other academic exercises. It was fun but no more essential than this useless padding.

It has moments of supreme absurdity, like the Working Mother's Daycare in the brothel, and moments of just plain sophomoric grossness, like the way Robert Davi's character dies.Mindless in result, thoughtful in preparation, this is a Zen movie.I discovered it on cable soon after it came out and have owned a copy of it on VHS for years.A movie to be watched with your older teens without embarrassment, and your peers without explanation.Shadoe proves himself to be a master at his character and seems to have had enough sense to realize that he did his best just this once and to leave it at that.The bit players and supporting cast all seem to be having fun and the production values are way above par for such an effort.All in all, a movie that does what it is supposed to and then stops.

The only funny part of this movie that I can remember is when the Guziks are in the back of a limo and the reactions on the driver's face in the mirror is just CLASSIC! Unfortunately, he winds up dead and Robert Davi kicks him as he asks what happened. The original credits listed him as "Eric Tilley... Dead Limo Driver". Why isn't he listed in the credits here? Maybe he thought better of it after he saw the finished product...

No wonder the studio never released this! Now, I have no objection to moronic humor (as long as it makes me laugh), but the gags here are so incredibly stupid I can't see anyone laughing at this! Technical skills are unbelievably bad - in one shot, you can see the metal tracks the camera was moving on! There's only ONE funny gag - credit card decals at a whorehouse. Now that you've heard the one funny gag, there's no reason for you to see this. Unless...you want to see the actual Famous Amos vomit onscreen.