Nothing But Trouble - Awfully Good Movies

I want you to hit me as hard as you can go ninja go ninja Go Go ninja go ninja go although Saturday Night Live has been forced to air its most recent and housebound episodes without the help of a live audience the NBC sketch comedy has remained a pop-culture milestone over its 45 years and counting on the air with many of its not-ready-for-prime-time players going on to be big-name movie stars and while the 90s era of SNL made many of its cast members into some of the decades biggest names in comedy the original cast members who started out with the show in its 70s heyday worked quite as lucky especially in the case of both dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase who all but ended their movie stardom when they co-starred with each other in dan Aykroyd one and only directorial effort from 1991 which was aptly titled nothing but trouble in 1987 dan Aykroyd joined his brother Peter and his Blues Brothers producer Robert K Weiss and attending a screening of Clive Barker's hellraisers with Weiss wine to avoid seeing a comedy to prevent hurting his recently fractured rib with laughter but when the three men nose the audience laughing at the film Weiss got the bright idea for the three of them to make a horror comedy together and the Aykroyd brothers came up with a script that was based upon Dan Aykroyd's real-life experience in 1978 of getting pulled over for speeding in a rural town and having to stand trial in front of the local justice of the peace and after Aykroyd failed to interest his past collaborators John Hughes or John Landis in directing his script Dan told Warner Brothers that the film would mark his directorial debut with Aykroyd starring alongside his fellow second city alums Chevy Chase and John Candy yet even with its cast of the three biggest comedy stars of the time the movie grew more notable for its trouble production than its comedic star power and when nothing but trouble finally saw the light of day after numerous release date delays and a change in title the movie indeed proved to be nothing but trouble with horrendous reviews from the critics and horrific box office with the careers of chase Aykroyd and candy never quite being the same afterwards but since I loved watching this move as a kid while being completely unaware of its toxic reputation I'll give nothing but trouble another watch to find out if it is actually something's but the opposite of trouble or at the very least find out if it's a better spies like us reunion for Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase then their appearances in the cinematic anal cysts known as Caddyshack - if I pull the arrow out will you please suck out the poison for me Oh God and Randy Quaid is in that movie - here come the Christmas vacation - flashbacks but first it's time to shell out 50 to $100 to buy yourself a bottle of dan Aykroyd crystal head parka and start seeing damn aliens after you have an encounter with the awfully good drinking game take a shot or drink every time you see an on-screen appearance from Dan Aykroyd's brother Peter Aykroyd who in addition to writing this film's story plays the doorman for a swanky Manhattan penthouse who greets one of the penthouses tenants chris Thorne played by Chevy Chase a financial publisher known for giving great tips on the stock market in his weekly newsletter I'd like to thank the tip on the market you gave me the wife says the stocks about up five points good Mike watch for more Drive sure shallot yeah if only Peter Aykroyd could have taken some financial advice before you decide the star in the failed 1981 comedy gasps they're over two and a half million men in the city and 98% of all horny and you wonder why Peter never became a star like his big brother it's inside this penthouse that Chris comes across his romantic interest for the film Diane lightson played by Demi Moore who is emotionally distraught partially because this is the first movie Demi decided to make after her blockbuster success in ghosts but mostly because she's an investment attorney who just broke up with her client / fiance named Howard sons and is pissed to discover that Sons is moving forward with a landfill deal without Diane services it's about my my professional credentials my my law firms time you know what you just tell Howard that I'm coming down there but since Chris happens to be a mutual acquaintance of Howard sucks Diane decides to ask Chris if he can drive her to Atlantic City so she could confront sons at a sales conference so if you're not going can I borrow your car I'm a good driver I'm an excellent driver is that important to you maybe I should reconsider you'd really like to drive course I'm an excellent driver it's my car I'll do the drive okay great you drive my unaware okay so I guess this rich woman does not have a car of her own to drive to Atlantic City herself nor does she have any financial means to hire a driver or any friends who could drive her there she just asked a complete stranger who she just met in an elevator and happens to know her ex fiance but now that's good screenwriting the next morning a hungover Chris is about to bail out on the Atlantic City trip before he remembers that she is 90s era Demi Moore and he has an excuse to get lucky with her without Bruce Willis kicking his ass however it appears that two of Chris's clients have learned about their travel plans a brother and sister pair of eccentric Brazilian billionaires named Fausto and Ronaldo as played by the late great character actor Taylor Negron and Bert Ella Dumas aka Camilla Santiago on Brooklyn nine-nine and before Chris and Diane head out to Atlantic City they find themselves joined on their journey by these two obnoxious Brazilian airs they're Brazilian airs we'll never see him again and I think we know what music we should play when we're on a wacky road trip with Chevy Chase no I'm not referring to holiday Road I was referring to Chevy Chase's self-titled album from 1980 but then the Brazilians get the bright idea to taking the car down to detour so the four of them can have a picnic in the countryside and with the help of the cars high-tech computers Chris drives the car off the New Jersey Turnpike and into a rundown mining town named Falcon vania where Chevy Chase mocks the downtrodden town's folk with his snarky humor sell pork bellies buy gold people can evil and mr. clean but when the car fails to stop at a stop sign our heroes find themselves pursued by a local cop and Fausto dares Chris to try and outrun the long arm of the law this is a provincial cop man with this car you could easily get away from him let's see if we could do 90 well of course it makes sense to get into a high-speed pursuit over a simple stop sign violation we all know you can't resist an offer from a Brazilian Air now let's drive this [ __ ] underneath the truck like Clark Griswold is supposed to do Chris is forced to pull over the car and face the wrath of Chief Constable Dennis Falkenhayn sir as played by John Candy who informs Chris that the loss of all convey D estate that any law breakers are forced to stand trial before the local justice of the peace now I'm planning not to mention the speeding to him so I suggest you come quietly and immediately unless you want more trouble than you're already gargling and as the car is escorted to the courthouse we get to see many beautifully hideous piles of scrap metal and random junk which were designed for this film by William Sandell who worked on Robocop and Total Recall while Chevy Chase shoots off some lip jokes in the background so that's where they buried slipper you must be under folk art okay okay Chevy just because you know this movie isn't that good does not allow you to provide your own RiffTrax over it look at all these toasters you know what they say all toasters toast toast so it's here we finally get to meet the justice of the peace as played by our director and screenwriter dan Aykroyd named Alvin Vulcan Heiser with Aykroyd under heavy makeup to play this one hundred and six year old judge whose perception of the law is based off an ancient Charter established back in 1796 after the tenants of the old Shire Charter excuse me sir that's pre Magna Carta means serfdom and fiefdom stuff very good young lady and you can imagine that this old-fashioned lawman does not take too kindly to Chris's snarky and dismissive attitude in the midst of his trial wait a minute what is this [ __ ] I don't want to hear the story of your life we just want to pay the ticket and get the hell out of here it decides to imprison our for yuppies overnight before a further trial the next day by dropping them through the floor into a pile of squeaky toys which surely establishes this film in the same universe as little monsters here's hoping we find the rotting skeleton of Howie Mandel got him got a new team guy but it's Chris and Diana wait their trial down the judges basement we cut to a group of law breaking drug dealers who are also driving through Balkan Vania has led by Daniel Baldwin which gets pulled over by Officer Dennis I had a couple so what I'm fine and afraid you'll have to blow blow you maybe later next century sorry ma'am but John Candy only picks special girls for him to take down to camp candy if you know what I mean and yes I do mean oral sex that's not fun and after the judge sentences these drug dealers to death after finding several kilos of crack and coke on them he pulls a lever and turns on a conveyor belt which leads Baldwin and his gang onto mr. bone stripper a rollercoaster which the judge uses to execute death sentences by chucking criminals inside of a meat grinder and spang their bones out of the other end I was getting all your cold figure boy I wonder how Dan Aykroyd could have come up with such an insane idea and I came here oh yeah that would explain a lot about this movie especially the scene where judge Alvin invites his latest captives to join him for a most unusual supper wherein we meet John Candy once again in his second roll of the film dressed up and dragged to play eldona the judges mute granddaughter keys jangle and the best class a mechanic in five states struck dumb at Birth by a thunderclap my kind of woman and so well done' serves our guests an unappetizing dinner made up of discolored frankfurters ants on a log and room-temperature Hawaiian Punch complete with a gomez addams style model train that pops up out of the table carrying condiments to put on top of the hot dogs here's how I like them and I should guess you haven't same way well that sells that zing dan aykroyd sucking on a gray wiener slathered and condiments has convinced me to finally adopt a vegan diet by the way if you think that the judges nose here looks an awful lot like a big dozen yes sir then you will be glad to know that the movies makeup department is here to confirm your suspicions you know what forget the vegan diet I no longer have an appetite for any kind of food whatsoever I won't have my sister who is once the queen of America not sitting at a table with it because you did say yes the two Brazilians were perfectly fine with Dan Aykroyd sucking off sausage like a dick whilst wearing a dick on his nose but having a pickle Florida's forehead is where Fausto draws the line your knife is too much and not only do Fausto and Renaldo manage to escape the mansion after crossing across a moat filled with toxic sewage he smells like Sao Paulo but they even bring John Candy along with them after Dez decides he's through being bossed around by the abusive judge who also happens to be his grandfather it looks like you need a nice couple of weeks holiday no appeal the correct banana there it's almost as if these three characters became self-aware of how in essential they are to this script and just decide to leave the movie of their own [ __ ] accord again good screenwriting as for our remaining cast members dan Aykroyd manages to give one of the best performances of his career here as the demented judge with Aykroyd writing this character one hell of a fascinating backstory the reason that the judge is so harsh towards these rich yuppies is because his grandfather was swindled by a New York financier to turn Vulcan vania into a coal-mining burg in exchange for a bunch of fraudulent shares that ended up bankrupting the town they were forced to become what you drove through today burnt-out coal field which has led to the judges lifelong hatred towards those greedy bankers banker no banker no financial publishing okay bankers and will a banker grope for money and that's why I never let a banker goal in fact Chris and Diane even come across a room that has filled with thousands of drivers licenses and ID's which the just stolen from his captive prisoners over the years the sloth Hari Krishna's disappears its Nazi rocket scientist vanishes Jimmy Hoffa still missing here's his ID oh you hear that Martin Scorsese the Irishman was factually inaccurate after all Al Pacino should have ended up getting killed by a hundred-year-old judge with a dick nose and Aykroyd commits to this crazy character 110 percent thanks to his wonderful makeup work which helps the judge resemble a cross between Tom Hardy's Al Capone and present-day Gary Busey yep like I said present-day Gary Busey plus Aykroyd Don's even more prosthetic makeup to play a second character when Diane finds a passage leading to the mansion's back yard and comes across two more of the judges grandchildren a pair of deformed man who resembled full-sized babies by the names of Bobo and little devil hi I'm Bobo that's so dope oh hi with Aykroyd in the role of Bobo and little double being played by the guy who served as the hardware consultant on ghostbusters likely because John Candy refused to embarrass himself further with a third role in this movie not good no good I mean these [ __ ] things look like Phil and Lil got into a matter transporter with that bastard their heads look like the top of a chocolate ice cream cone from Dairy Queen and kudos not just to dan Aykroyd for managing to direct this movie while wearing that prosthetic baby suit but also to de meme or for continuing to act like a professional even when acting against these hideous monstrosity because bubbles on top where my deal you know you may look at these mutant baby men and see a couple of freaks but when I look at them I see a great opening act for the insane clown posse blah both to me more and John Candy try to pull their weight amidst all this badness Chevy Chase gives an incredibly uneven performance there are moments when you could see glimpses of the same suave smartass who made you laugh as Clark Breslin old anti web but you can detect Chevy growing more tired with this script as the film goes on although he does pop up a bit when his character tries running away and gets caught by the judges granddaughter and the judge informs Chris that he's now the property of Aldona no choice but house policy what's house policy whatever man touches here's one G keep what looks like it's Chevy's turn to head down to camp candy yeah his name is Uncle Buck and he's here so just as you think this movie's gotten as insane as it's gonna get along comes a special guest appearance from Digital Underground the hip hop group which had just burned up the music charts at the time with their hit song the Humpty dance and who had just brought a young whippersnapper into their group by the name of Tupac Shakur man would you look at this place just like extremely Dracul ated white man's heaven and when the band is brought before the judge to face a speeding charge they're ordered to provide proof of their musicianship by performing a song and the court namely the song that the band wrote for this film soundtrack same song and not only as judge vulcanizer entranced by the funky beats and dope raps of this Humpty Huff character and his merry band of singing roustabouts but he even joins in on the performance by dropping up that organ solo [Music] hey you know what if this judge was behind the killing of Jimmy Hoffa then perhaps he might have had a hand in the murder of Tupac Spears but anyway in the case of the People vs Digital Underground the judge declares the group free to go so that Humpty hump can be free to get busy and many more Burger King bathrooms but not before the band does a favor for the judge by performing at the wedding of his granddaughter eldona and her reluctant new husband you may kiss your bride no not in front of all these people your honor now oh it's not that bad Chevy if they had cast this movie nowadays then you'd have ended up marrying James Corden and drag instead but after Chris and Loras Digital Underground to help him escape from the mansion the judge furiously sentences Chris to death on board mr. bone stripper a harsh sentence sure but after sitting through his performance in zoom Academy for superheroes I'd say it's very well deserved thankfully the machine breaks down and Chris makes it out of the bone strip are alive but before he can escape the judge challenges Chris to come back so he could exchange his life for Diane's before he chops his ladylove defects with another one of his mechanical contraptions Chris you really put the pin in the party hog now girl and right before eldona brings down the blades on Diane Chris comes to save the day with an explosive barrel of gasoline unfortunately that would not be the biggest bomb that Chevy Chase would set off that decade the Chevy Chase show so Chris and Diane finally make it our bulk in vania by hopping onto an outbound train where they immediately head to the police station to relate the story of their outrageous adventure and I can only imagine this was the look on the faces of the Warner Brothers executives when the Aykroyd brothers pitched on the story of this movie so with the help of detectives Brian doyle-murray and Dewey Cox his dad Chris and Diane had factored the judge's mansion with an armada of police officers behind them ready to raid the place now why they would want to come back to this place after spending all this time trying to run away from it I don't [ __ ] know and after the judge pretends not to recognize his two escaped prisoners he lets them in on a most unpleasant surprise something isn't he of course we can't admit that we appreciate the way he gets things done and sadly that was a better Twilight Zone twist ending than any episode of Jordan peels Twilight Zone but after a series of underground coal fires Rumble under the grounds of Vulcan vania throughout the entire movie the fires finally erupted into a full-blown earthquake and the cops flee for their lives and as the Vulcan Heiser Mansion collapses into ashes behind them Chris and Diane finally head back to Manhattan in their torn apart sports car and as the newly free lovers relax from their ordeal Chris happens to turn on the news to see a report on the Vulcan vania earthquake which has freed over 50 million barrels of oil from the ground and before you can say Beverly Hillbillies we find out that the newly rich judge has survived the earthquake and now plans to move in with his grandson in-law in New York City well now out of all the ways you could have possibly ended this movie that was certainly one of them in addition to having its original title of Vulcan Vania replaced with the generic as hell title of nothing but trouble Warner Brothers cut several minutes of over-the-top violence from the film to reach a pg-13 rating and Ahmed was so disappointed with this film's failure that when film critic Lee suggested to him writing an oral history of nothing but troubles production Aykroyd replied angrily with I think that would be a very poor use of your time and I would strongly encourage you to make better choices but even though I acknowledge this movie has got plenty of flaws as its structure and character development I still put nothing but trouble up there as well my personal favorite guilty pleasures from my childhood which has got four more creativity and depth than most of the other mediocre movies that Aykroyd and chase were forced to do after this movie's failure so whether you think it's a hidden gem or a complete disaster you must agree that it's a fascinating and unfiltered snapshot into the weird and wonderful psyche of Dan Aykroyd which is more than worth your watch as well as being considerably better than Blues Brothers 2000 now here's hoping that Dan Aykroyd doesn't come back for the new Ghostbusters movie as a singing zombie ray Stantz got a dog on video on the new watch we have to give up a major show way in honor of the gorgeous white dress that Demi Moore wears in this movie it looks like something that Grace Kelly would have worn in a Hitchcock movie albeit one where Cary Grant was recast with an obese mutant baby man wearing a diaper however this would also be an opportune time to tell you folks about the digital underground music video they made to tie into this movie which not only has dan Aykroyd popping up at a series of costumes but even standing alongside dr. Dre and Eazy E's yes truly it was the end for NWA after they decided to replace Ice Cube with Dan Aykroyd straight out Canada crazy [ __ ] named pack boy I don't think aliens will visit us after 9/11 on the enjoyable this continuum scale from Boulder Bruce nothing but trouble is surely the funniest movie Warner Brothers has ever made about being held hostage by murderous backwater hillbillies since deliverance and gets pulled over for violating a speed limit of nine out of ten this episode is dedicated in loving memory of John Candy Tupac Shakur and our appetites after watching that [ __ ] hot dog scene I'm just a shade for Joe Blow calm and before we keep rollin on with our awfully 90 summer I must ask a favor of the newly launched HBO max if you guys can finally give Zack Snyder a chance to finish his version of Justice League then surely you can find it in your heart to let Dan Aykroyd release the r-rated director's cut of nothing but trouble see you soon streamers [Music] I'm sure everyone chew on this you sticking relics [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 24min 15sec (1455 seconds)

Published: Thu May 28 2020