I finally caught this on cable again. I saw bits and pieces over the years and it never looked very good. The reason? It's not funny at all. I can't believe George Roy Hill had anything to do with this mess. Everyone on screen looked embarrassed to be associated with this trash heap.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
Don't forget your friend, ANNNDDDDYYYY!!!! *throws fake squirrel at snelling*
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sharePersonally I was thinking the biggest flaw of the movie is, that there seems to be at least 30 minutes worth of stuff missing from it, mainly revolving around the town itself. In the final act we are supposed to believe, it would be the whole town that is making selling the house more difficult, when in fact they have only one big problem there: the mail man. Nothing else about the town is so off place, that potential buyers would run out in terror.
There's a lot of things in the movie that start out building up into something bigger, but then they are just cut out half the way, like the sheriff and his car license, the attourneys, antiques shop owner and the supposed oddness of the town itself.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that English isn't your first language ...
" ...potential buyers would run out in terror."
Huh ? They left pissed off at the Farmers and where only annoyed at the towns folk being that the 'potential buyers' just lost out on what they believed was their dream home.
'Terror' had ZERO to do with this scene.
Personally, I find this to be one of Chevys best/funniest. Many of my friends do too.
I wasn't actually referring on the scene where the potential buyers leave pissed. The word terror there is also used as a figure of speech, not meant to be taken literally.
What I was referring to was, that Cheavy acted like the towns folk themselves would have been a huge obstacle in front of selling the house. But there was only one real obstacle and that was the mail man. The town itself was pretty normal. Thus the final act of the movie doesn't make any sense, as there was no real need for the whole staged up "idyllic country town" stuff. Only one they would have had to bribe was the mail man.
So that's why the movie feels like it's missing out some stuff that would have actually shown the town to be more odd than it was. Now it just feels like wasted potential.
The first and last parts are pretty good, but there's a long middle that isn't.
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