This scene should have been the ending. The smile they give one another at the end is quick, but means a great deal when you think of their friendship and Chris's demise. Beautiful.
I absolutely, thoroughly and completly HATED this movie because of this speech In a vacuum it's ok *I guess*, but my dad used it as an excuse to dismiss all my and my siblings troubles when we were kids. Then he'd turn around and ask/demand us why we're not trying harder to do better and be "successful" with school and our social lives. No wonder I became a paranoid perfectionist for a couple of decades
Over 25 years since Chris left us. This might be one of my favorite moments of his. Gone way, way too soon. As I get older for some reason I feel his passing more and more. Maybe because that time in the mid 90s was so special or it's just nostalgia. Either way this 80 seconds of Spade and Farley is priceless and it has nothing to do with Fatty falls downs. RIP Chris
This makes me feel and do so many things. It makes me laugh, smile, swoon a little bit, cry, and sing along too. I adore this movie and these two gentlemen. Rest in peace, Chris Farley.
I was 10 years old in 1979 when Meatballs was released to the theaters. While it's a good, funny movie, as a kid I really couldnt connect with it because from my experience and vantage point, I saw it as a huge inaccuracy about sleepaway camp. I hated summer camp. Every summer my (abusive) mother sent me to camp against my will. One month of day camp and one month of sleepaway camp. She sent me not because it would be good for me, but just to get me out of her hair for extended lengths of time. As much as I hated my abusive, dysfunctional home, it was the hell I knew. I would have preferred to stay home on my summer break from school. Stay up as long as I liked at night, sleep as late as I wanted in the mornings. Play outside with the neighborhood kids. Hang out with my best friends. Watch TV and see what I missed due to the usual school hours, etc. At day camp and sleepaway camp, I had to put up with being picked on and bullied not only by my fellow campers, but also by the camp counselors. The campers and counselors who didn't bully me, turned a blind eye to those who did. When I wrote home about all the abuse and neglect I had to put up with, to cover up, the camp office saw to it that my postcards home didn't get mailed. Instead, they trashed them. When I got home, I discovered my mother received only 4 of my postcards when I wrote home 2-3 postcards a day, every day, for the whole month. One of the 4 postcards that made it home was a phony "having a great time, wish you was here" type of message that they forced us to write. Not to mention the mattresses they furnished us with to sleep on, were all urine stained by bedwetting campers of previous summers. In Meatballs, sleepaway camp is portrayed as a real fun, charming, and happy experience. In my experience it was anything but.
Idk how this great song ended up being part of this movie soundtrack, let alone fitting so well into the story with them driving into the sunset... It's very meaningful. They both seemed to be in the moment when singing along to this beautiful song, and the lyrics encapsulating and hightlighting the importance of the main character played by Chris Farley (Eres tu) It's you* -Almost playing like a farewell song to Chris' sad and untimely passing. Thanks for the laughs -R.I.P.
I wasn't alive when this came out but I am grateful I had a Dad that showed me this movie and it is funnier than hell. Every. Time. I still always laugh to this day
