oxblood wrote:
There's no resemblance whatsoever to Used Cars which is superior other than the fact that they're both comedies about car salesmen. Those are two very broad topics that have been mined in alot of other movies.
That just isn't true. Here are other obvious similarities:
(1) They desperately need to sell a lot of cars in a short time period to effect something or other (in Used Cars, to get a senate nomination, in this one, to avoid losing the lot).
(2) The prominent use of misleading tv commercials.
(3) Cheap gimmicks to draw customers to the lot (i.e. strippers in Used Cars, the carnival theme promoted by Roy L Fuchs).
(4) The fate of the car lot hinging on the last second sale (or, in Used Cars, the last second appearance) of a single car. The film ends.
There are probably other similarities I'm forgetting. It's *obvious* that this film was inspired directly by Used Cars. I'm surprised they didn't have a fake sheriff in their commercials.
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