Made on a forty million dollar budget (virtually none of which was recovered),which is all up there on the screen, this extraordinarily unpopular movie is most definitely one for the connoisseur. Dan Akroyd's admirers will enjoy it too. In fact, director Akroyd gives actor Alroyd perhaps a wee too much attention, but Chevy Chase has a good innings too, and I've nothing but praise for the super-lovely Demi Moore and prolific TV actress/writer Valri Bromfield, here making one of her few movie appearances. And as for the sets, to say they are mind-boggling would not nearly do them justice. The make-up people also deserve the highest praise. All the same, this is definitely a movie that will appeal mainly to the connoisseur and one wonders how any investors in their right minds would advance even a nickel to finance a movie like this, let alone forty million. If they had asked me for my advice, I would have told them they had no chance whatever of making a dime. But thanks a lot fellas! I really enjoyed this really bizarre movie anyway, and it didn't cost me so much as a cent!

This is another underrated horror comedy from yesteryear. The movie is just weird and wonky. Dan Akroyd wrote, directed and stars along with Demi Moore ( G.I Jane),Chevy Chase (Fletch) and the late, great John Candy (Uncle Buck) in dual roles. The movie concerns a smarmy yuppie (Chase),the girl he's interested in (Moore) a couple of foreign rich kids and an I'll fated road trip where they are pulled over for running a stop sign and imprisoned by a strange judge and his ghoulish family. They spend the movie trying to escape wacky traps and death. The movie is weird, imaginative and bursting with creativity. Its definitely not for everyone it bombed with critics and audiences alike when it was initially released. But it's aged quite well and is definitely deserved of being a cult classic.

Budget: $40m Domestic Box Office: $8m Worldwide Box Office: $8m

3.75/5

Successful financial writer Chris Thorne (Chevy Chase) meets emotional lawyer Diane Lightson (Demi Moore). She wants to stop a land developer and he's willing to take her to meet him in Atlantic City. Obnoxious, wealthy Brazilian siblings Fausto and Renalda tag along. Chris gets lost and is arrested by Valkenvania police officer Dennis Valkenheiser (John Candy). He is brought in front of crazy old Judge Reeve Alvin Valkenheiser (Dan Aykroyd) and his weird mansion/courthouse.

It's an ugly funhouse of deliberately annoying characters. Dan Aykroyd has nobody to blame but himself. He just goes crazy without anybody willing to tell him that this is disgusting and not funny. I hate most of these characters. If Chevy Chase is nicer, there is a possible rooting interest. However everything is so over-the-top ugly and unlikeable. I almost want to give it a pass for being campy but not every bad movie deserves that pass. Its worst sin of all is that it's not funny.