Let me be frank the only reason I rented this film was nostalgia and I must say I didn't really have many expectations from this film coming out of my experience with another film I rented for nostalgic value, The Pink Panther (I felt the humour had outlived its time).
The movie starts out promisingly enough with the stereotypical bumbling nerd and his wacky carefree friend lost in the big bad world of corporate America.
The encounter with the female temp and the meeting with Bernie provide a few memorable moments earlier in the film. In fact the opening sequence with the trip to beach itself sets the initial expectations high.
Catherine Mary Stewart provides the eye candy throughout the movie, 80s style, and also serves up a decent performance. hehe
The movie in fact follows through with one funny scene after the other taking a swipe at corporate America, the mafia, the glitterati etc.
Then Bernie dies,....... and the movie gets even funnier as one after the other we are subjected to people interacting with Bernie as if he were actually alive.
Hell I would like to go as far as saying that Bernie did better when he was dead then when he was alive.
The movie peaks when Bernie meets his mistress and gives one of the best performance of his lives. That scene will clearly be one of the most memorable scenes in comedy movie history.
However we do have a few memorable sequences such as the drunk bargaining, the parents house etc.
Unfortunately it all goes downhill from there, with the abusive, bratty kid providing the only relief, when we are subjected to scene after scene of the same variety (oxymoron).
This movie does the cardinal sin of the one joke movie and doesn't realise when to quit. Had this movie been 25 mins shorter it would have easily figured itself in the most memorable comedies of all time.
The movie is crude, stupid and slapstick but lovable, the actors give good performances given the limited premise of the movie. As expected the dead Bernie clearly steals the show.
I don't know but I felt an undercurrent of darkness in the comedy of this movie especially relating to Bernie's acts after his death and the way he was treated by others.
In all a good movie with great nostalgic value and worth renting when you can think of nothing else.
-'s one joke movie, doesn't know when to quit, pg-13 rating (i still cant figure out why if you are showing a sexual act but with no exposure it is OK to show to the kids), some characters caricaturish, second part far below expectations.
+\-'s undercurrents of dark humour, slapstick.
+'s single joke but bloody funny one, a host of memorable scenes specially in the earlier half, a few great one liners,decent performances, good eye candy, absolutely hilarious first hour.
The movie starts out promisingly enough with the stereotypical bumbling nerd and his wacky carefree friend lost in the big bad world of corporate America.
The encounter with the female temp and the meeting with Bernie provide a few memorable moments earlier in the film. In fact the opening sequence with the trip to beach itself sets the initial expectations high.
Catherine Mary Stewart provides the eye candy throughout the movie, 80s style, and also serves up a decent performance. hehe
The movie in fact follows through with one funny scene after the other taking a swipe at corporate America, the mafia, the glitterati etc.
Then Bernie dies,....... and the movie gets even funnier as one after the other we are subjected to people interacting with Bernie as if he were actually alive.
Hell I would like to go as far as saying that Bernie did better when he was dead then when he was alive.
The movie peaks when Bernie meets his mistress and gives one of the best performance of his lives. That scene will clearly be one of the most memorable scenes in comedy movie history.
However we do have a few memorable sequences such as the drunk bargaining, the parents house etc.
Unfortunately it all goes downhill from there, with the abusive, bratty kid providing the only relief, when we are subjected to scene after scene of the same variety (oxymoron).
This movie does the cardinal sin of the one joke movie and doesn't realise when to quit. Had this movie been 25 mins shorter it would have easily figured itself in the most memorable comedies of all time.
The movie is crude, stupid and slapstick but lovable, the actors give good performances given the limited premise of the movie. As expected the dead Bernie clearly steals the show.
I don't know but I felt an undercurrent of darkness in the comedy of this movie especially relating to Bernie's acts after his death and the way he was treated by others.
In all a good movie with great nostalgic value and worth renting when you can think of nothing else.
-'s one joke movie, doesn't know when to quit, pg-13 rating (i still cant figure out why if you are showing a sexual act but with no exposure it is OK to show to the kids), some characters caricaturish, second part far below expectations.
+\-'s undercurrents of dark humour, slapstick.
+'s single joke but bloody funny one, a host of memorable scenes specially in the earlier half, a few great one liners,decent performances, good eye candy, absolutely hilarious first hour.