Bad 80s Comedies That Really Are Bad

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:18 am

In my quest to find awesome 80s comedies I have come across some really bad ones. And I don't mean good bad like Police Academy 3 or Mannequin or Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Kidding). I mean bad like ughhhh this is unwatchable and there aren't enough hijinx or training montages or 80s ballads or boobs to save this.

Listing details about this movie makes it SO enticing. Hell I look at the poster or watch the trailer and want to give it a second chance.

Bronson Pinchot as a wacky psychic named Bobby. I'm listening...

John Laraquette as a wise cracking ex cop. Still listening...

The fat guy from that one movie as the bumbling translator to Pinchot's psychic. GO ON.

The three of them team up and form a psychic detective agency and solve crimes. OH MY GOD MUST WATCH.

There's also Bronson Pinchot channeling an old Jewish man named Murray, car chases to Aretha Franklin songs, and the finale involves Balki driving a plane with his mind. FORTHELOVEOFGODPRESSPLAYRIGHTNOWMYEYEBALLSARECUMMINGTHATSOUNDSBETTERTHANFIREWORKSANDHOTSAUCEANDCINNAMONTOASTCRUNCHCOMBINED.

No. It's terrible. Really terrible. Some how it's not funny. Arguably worth watching for the finale though.

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Dude directed Bachelor Party so who wouldn't want to watch his next movie? Plus it has Bill Murray's least famous brother doing a terrible Bill Murray impression, I think Stacy Keach's creepy Skeletor looking brother, the bleh protagonist from Fast Times, Jennifer Tilly who is somehow not hot in this, and a bunch of other kooky characters. It's boring. The jokes either barely work or just don't. The director does redeem himself with Surf Ninjas.

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This is an epic train wreck. When you begin describing it it's kind of like Second Sight.

A 80s comedy about a kid raised by wolves. Ok...

Christopher LLoyd plays the rich evil brother that tries to trick his retard wolf brother out of his 30 million dollar inheritance. Still listening...

Lots of scenes at country clubs with hooity tooity rich people getting their hair mussed. Ok I guess...

The brother raised by wolves is played by Howie ManSTOP RIGHT THERE.

This movie is almost entirely unfunny Howie Mandel being a dog, peeing on stuff, humping uppity rich guys legs, chewing shoes, chasing cars, learning to speak and walk, etc. FUCK YOU ASSHOLE I SAID STOP.

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Willie B · Post by **Willie B** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:47 am

i saw walk like a man as a kid and enjoyed it.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:51 am

It's Robert Altman so it has to be good right?
I mean this is the guy who made fucking MASH and the extremely underrated Brewster McCloud?
A comedy about two stoner teens who take vengeance against the upper-middle class.
Did I mention that they drive a monster truck?
and it features Dennis Hopper as a still-stuck-in-Vietnam-in-his-mind crazed war vet that sells them a machine gun?

Nope, this fucking sucks. It's the antithesis of everything that makes a good teen comedy. Neither of the leads has any charisma, every joke falls flat and the movie is slow as fuck even for an Altman film.

battlecatmeowstab212 · Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:09 pm

You have no idea how misleading this box art is:

MC Homeless · Post by **MC Homeless** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 5:26 pm

TV Terrorist is a Troma movie. Used to have a vhs dub.

battlecatmeowstab212 · Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:11 pm

MC Homeless wrote:TV Terrorist is a Troma movie. Used to have a vhs dub.

It's also arguably the worst film in their catalog.

Larry2times · Post by **Larry2times** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:31 pm

In case anyone hasnt seen it already, Bronson Pinchot did a p entertaining interview a few years back shitting on Denzel & Tom Cruise

he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, גYou want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?ג

http://www.avclub.com/articles/bronson-pinchot,34310/

cascarrabias · Post by **cascarrabias** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:33 pm

Larry2times wrote:In case anyone hasnt seen it already, Bronson Pinchot did a p entertaining interview a few years back shitting on Denzel & Tom Cruise

he called us all by our character names. He was tense and made constant, constant unrelated homophobic comments, like, גYou want some ice cream, in case there are no gay people there?ג
http://www.avclub.com/articles/bronson-pinchot,34310/

Dude went to Yale and was classically trained yet he's known for a shitty sitcom and Beverly Hills Cop and he still talks shit.

The Wikipedia page for Second Sight has some info on Bronson's research for the role. Says he spent 3 months with psychics recommended to him by Shirley MacLaine.

Larry2times · Post by **Larry2times** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:44 pm

the film's psychic technical advisor

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:26 am

i loved moving violations growing up.

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 12:07 pm

Philaflava wrote:i loved moving violations growing up.

Ditto. Even if it did star the sibling or every famous actor from that time.