Nothing But Trouble (1991)

Get spooked silly when Chevy Chase and Demi Moore take a wrong turnpike exit and find "hanging judge" Dan Aykroyd and "constable" John Candy in a bizarre New Jersey burg. Year: 1990 Director: Dan Aykroyd Starring: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Demi Moore, John Candy

Not funny

Not funny, uninterestingly perverse in a non-sexual way; normally interesting actors trapped in a truly awful movie. September 6, 2008

Nothing.

The title should have been simply, "Nothing" I've seen some real stinkers over the years, but this film is in its own league. The film's only possible saving grace might be in using it in one of those old, "This is your brain on drugs." TV ads. May 8, 2008

Whackier Than I Remember

This was a film that I loved as a child. Along with "Big", "The Burbs", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and a half a dozen others, if this film was on TV, I would stop everything and see it to its end. Generally, as I get older, I rarely watch a film more than 1 or 2 times. But these films of my childhood I have seen at least a dozen times. After not seeing this movie for at least eight years or so, I was surprised to see how much I remembered and even more surprised to see how much I just didn't "get" as a child.

The obvious that I never realized as a child: the judge's [...]-shaped nose, the hot dog the judge sloppily ate, Chevy Chase's sweet talking to Demi Moore, Tupac Shakur's cameo...etc.

The not-so-obvious was how totally messed up, sociopathic, criminally insane, whacked out of their skulls, the judge's family was. Wow, was this one freaky movie, no wonder I liked it so much as a kid.

Surely, as I watched it with a slightly maturer mind, I did not feel it was as exciting as I used to think it was. In fact, I am pretty sure that anyone who has not yet scene this movie and sees it today, will most probably think that this is a horrible film. However for those whom this film remains a part of their childhood, for [...] new or a [...] used on Amazon, I think its a good deal.

Oh and by the way, the ending to this film really stinks.

For film junkies, Peter Aykroyd, Dan Aykroyd's younger brother, wrote the story for this film. Dan Aykroyd wrote the screenplay.

Maybe I am the only one, but I would like some new films with Chevy Chase in them. New Dan Aykroyd films would be nice too. May 3, 2008

A weird movie, but sometimes weird is good

I notice that a lot of people either love or despise this film. Personally, I really liked it. The plot was fun, the scenary was great and many of the actors in it are people I hadn't seen in a movie in years. Ackroyd as a warped machanical genius set up in his own little Shire, hidden somewhere in the backwoods of New Jersey? Yeah, it doesn't make much sense but it does make for a few good laughs. February 21, 2008

It happened to me!

"Nothing but trouble" is not really a movie, it is a documentary disguised as a movie so that the real judge and his accomplices would not murder Dan Aykroid. These people really exist and they live in Texas. One day, while I was driving trough a certain Texan town (that shall remain unnamed) an awkwardly obese cop stopped me for no reason. When I was asked for my occupation I mentioned "bank teller" and he said "yes, a banker" I tried to correct him but to no avail. The next thing I was aware off was being hauled to a creepy mansion in the middle of a vast junkyard. Inside the dilapidated mansion I was put in front of a "judge" that resembled a zombie and sentenced to death (yes, death) for being a "banker". If you want to know how the rest of the ordeal went just watch this movie because everything that happens is almost exactly like in real life (even the horribly obese disfigured "babies"). I still wake up screaming after all these years. Aykroid must have wanted to expose these horrors so that the public would wake up to their existence; he failed. September 24, 2007

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