Maybe "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag" isn't so bad if we just accept it as totally ridiculous. I can't say the same if we try to take it seriously. Joe Pesci plays a hit-man who has to deliver several heads, but lo and behold, he gets the wrong bag, leading to some rather predictable situations.

As for the rest of the cast, David Spade provides some laughs during the scenes that he shares with Joe Pesci; other than that, not even George Hamilton or Dyan Cannon seem able to do anything (Kristy Swanson, I believe, is best known for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). To make matters worse, the movie makes Mexico look like a place where you can only expect to get drug into unpleasant situations, whether on the street, in a hotel, or in the airport.

Oh well. It's still better than "Demolition Man".

Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is a mob guy transporting 8 heads across the country as proof of deaths. Charlie mistakenly picks up his bag. He's on vacation with his girlfriend Laurie Bennett (Kristy Swanson) and her parents (George Hamilton, Dyan Cannon). Laurie wants to break up. The mother is a recovering alcoholic. When she finds the heads, everybody thinks she's drunk.

Joe Pesci is aggressively hateful and not in a funny way. Charlie is pathetic and the actor lacks charisma. Laurie is unlikeable. Nobody is likable. Also they are boring. The family slapstick is bland and weak. At least Pesci isn't boring. However the whole movie is unfunny.

A mob bagman (Joe Pesci) finds that his luggage, containing the proof of his latest hit, has been switched.

This was a nice departure for David Spade, stepping away from "Saturday Night Live", though still staying within comedy. Not his best work, but also probably not his fault. As a whole, the movie never really takes off the way it should.

The exception is an awesome dream sequence, perhaps one of the better dream sequences ever filmed. Sadly, this one minute is the very best -- the rest of the film does not live up to the great title. Overall, it is quite tame on the violence and gore for the subject matter. If the same story was done without it being comedy, who knows how great this might have been?