Not only does it have James Keach (younger brother of Stacey) and John Murray (younger brother of Bill), but at the time, Jennifer Tilley's older sister, Meg was a bigger star than she was. This movie got advertised on cable as "starring every famous person's younger sibling".
I'm glad you did this one! I completely forgot about this until this episode. I remember seeing this on HBO in the 90s and never knew the name of this movie. Thank you so much for reintroducing this to everyone. 😁😁😁
This was a favorite of my friends and I when we were teens. Rented it in the 80s on VHS. One of my favorite little parts was when Murray starts flipping the switches on the tech's control board at the place with the antigravity machine. I think? It's been a loooong while since I saw this. Might be time for a rewatch! Good times! 😎
What if this machine goes and melts down a bus load of nuns, how'd you like to write the headline on that one? "Errm Nun soup" 😂 I adore that film, Johnny 5 rocks
GREAT job on the video GB Flicks.Your attention to detail is good.I don't believe I've seen this film.I remember seeing Bachelor Party and Police Academy at the cinema,Police Academy had me laughing more and harder. LOL. Wish they'd do an update Police Academy comedy,we need the laughs. Keep up the GOOD work.
OMG thank you for talking about this movie. I really loved it as a kid... as I remember, it played all the time on cable. I watched it a few years ago... It was still entertaining. I was surprised on how much I still remembered from it.
I love Bachelor Party. It's one of my favorite underrated comedies of the 80s. I've recorded it on multiple VHSs before I got DVD and BR versions of the film. I love Moving Violations as well. It was a great comedy. I gotta rewatch it again sometime. Thanks for the review!
This movie has always been a personal favorite. You, unfortunately, didn't include my favorite scene where they are fighting the Disney characters on top of a float. Donald's "oh shit" still kills me to this day.
I liked Brain Donors and that would be a great movie to take a good look at. That movie definitely showed what was good and failure if you rewrite a Marx Brothers movie. (Huge Marx Brothers fan here.)
GREAT job on the video GB Flicks.Your attention to detail is good.I don't believe I've seen this film.I remember seeing Bachelor Party and Police Academy at the cinema,Police Academy had me laughing more and harder. LOL. Wish they'd do an update Police Academy comedy,we need the laughs. Keep up the GOOD work.
It was actually around the time of Moving Violations that director Amy Heckerling had her affair with director Harold Ramis that produced a daughter who grew up thinking Amy's husband, director Neal Israel, was her father. In fact, the morning Amy gave birth, Harold Ramis showed up at the hospital with his 8 year old daughter in tow. According, to Amy, it was the only time Harold ever saw their kid. Many years later, after Harold's death, the two sisters finally met up and became very close friends to which they still are today. Also, Cecil, just FYI, I might be one of the very few people who actually saw Brain Doners in the theater during its opening weekend and I liked it, too!
Hey Cecil, let me tell you about a cute little movie called "Dangerous Curves", it's probably one of the most 80's "80's movies" I've ever seen, the opening sequence alone is a sight to behold, it's also got a pretty well know cast in it, I highly recommend you do an episode on it, if you've never seen it before it's on tubi and Plex, but definitely do not forget about Invasion USA.
I remember seeing this in the theater. Some guy sitting in the very front was cracking up at every joke. Heck, the runaway puppet show floored him. Thanks, Cecil.
You really should cover is Real Genius. Unlike Moving Violations where the writers couldn't find any "real" stories to use for the script, nearly every joke in Real Genius is based on a real life incident from Caltech. The production designers went to the campus and took extensive photos of the student dorms and accurately reproduced them down to even the graffiti on the walls. I know because I stayed in those dorms, and my room was across the hall from the "Saturn room" that was reproduced as the main character's room in the movie. The movie's "Tech Consultant" (as in CalTECH) was a student and his younger sister was in my class. He even appears in the movie a few times- most notably as the student who watches Mitch and Chris drug Kent and just says "Hey." and keeps walking like it's nothing out of the ordinary.
It's one of my favorite goofy comedies of the 80s. By the way, there is another notable film role for John Murray. He played Frank Cross's brother James in "Scrooged".
I used to have this movie on a VHS along with Rocky4. Ive grew up with this one so Im too biased to see the flaws. I didnt even know Dana was actually played by Bill Murrays brother until now. A great classic in my eyes. PS: DOC Williams was the best character IMO
@Dennis McConnell I know. I didnt pik up on it until now but now all i see is Bill. Too bad for John. He was charismatic and likeable. I love how Halik progressively looses his shit throughout the movie.
If it's late 70- early 90's goofy comedy it's likely 20x better then what we get today. If it's the first two PA movies, Caddyshack, stripes etc it might even be 100x.
I’m not a movie snob or anything but I can’t stand most comedies from the last decade. I grew up on 80s comedies (Police Academy, Vacation, Revenge of the Nerds, etc). They really don’t make movies like this anymore.
These 80’s pics didn’t try to be anything but funny no serious subplots no social messaging ect. plus they’re are not “anti woman” as many younger people claim; the female characters are almost always more intelligent/pro-active than the men(think Wendy Williams in Porkys)
@@lerm2866 No, they often did have social messaging. Serious sub plots rarer but it did happen. It's just well written satire, designed to serve/impel the story as opposed to badly written and essentially being the only story. Caddyshack is pretty anti capitalist (Ty), and anti upper class (Dangerfield and the judge). Police Academy pretty much relies on actual diversity and inclusion as it's entire premise. It just happens to include very obvious diversity of thought (about half the cops/cadets are right wing, half left) as well as race, sex, orientation etc. Spaceballs, anti fascist, Stripes, anti war, list goes on. It's a testament to good writing though, you don't consciously notice it or accept it, except you do. It works so much better when not shoved in your face it's not even funny. The acceptance of the other because together we can make wonderful things happen learned from Police Academy will stay with you always, the flaccid attempt at the same message in ghostbusters 2016 will also, with the opposite affect than intended.
Sir, I worked at a video store in the late 90's while in high school and college. I watched everything that came through the doors I could so I could answer the daily "what's good" question. I'm 45 years old and I've never, in all the years since, heard anyone ever mention Brain Donors. When I tried and failed to push that movie to customers, I would compare them to the Marx Brothers. I loved this movie, and would say it's underrated, but i've never actually seen it rated. Thanks for being the only other person to ever bring up that movie in civilized public.
The part where Wendy Jo Sperber drank the crisco, ran down the freeway, and sat naked on the lift made my mother laugh the hardest I’ve ever seen her laugh. She would laugh herself silly telling everybody about it. To be fair, it was pretty funny
This movie and Honky Tonk freeway were so underrated. It’s funny that Michael J. Fox was cast but turned it down for Back to the Future because Wendy Jo Sperber was Marty’s Sister in the franchise.
Hijinks AND shenanigans? Throw in some tomfoolery and I'm there. I love Brain Donors, too. I'm glad you gave it a solid endorsement. It took me back to my favorite Marx Brothers/Abbott and Costello stuff.
I remember seeing this on tv and thinking this was so funny an so entertaining!! I really wished John would have made another movie as this character (reminds me a lot of Steve Guttenberg as Mahoney) he just had so much charisma or a moving violations pt 2. 😃
I remember seeing this movie in the six grade. With my whole class (Instead of a boring literature class, for some reason), it was freaking hilarious! Now I have to rewatch it! You give some other greater commendations that they will check out ASAP. Thank you for your awesome content, it is always an informative mix of nostalgia, great trivia titbits, and a reminder that movies can be extremely fun and not preachy. I'm swamped with work, but every time we have a video out, a short break is in order to recharge myself, and keep on going. with a smile :)
Speaking of goofy comedies. I’d love an Exploring on Up the Academy. Not necessarily the movie itself, but Mad Magazine, magazine founder William Gaines and actor Ron Leibman’s overreaction to how bad it was. I saw it and was thinking that I saw better. And I saw worst.
Never seen this one Cecil, will have to try and find it somewhere and give it a watch, I noticed 2 stars from one of my personal favourite early 80's slasher films (The Burning) are in this, Brian backer and Ned Eisenberg, it will be different seeing them both in comedic roles instead of being hunted by a sadistic burns victim with a pair of garden shears lol :)
I got John Murray, mixed with Joel Murray, he was in another one of my favorite 80's movie's "One Crazy Summer", a film you should definitely do a video on, although you should definitely do the director's first movie "Better off dead" first, but you know what movie you should do first🧔
Lane Myer: Johnny… Johnny: Four weeks, twenty papers, that’s $2 dollars. Plus tip. Lane Myer: Gee Johnny, I don’t have a dime. Johnny: Didn’t ask for a dime. 2 dollars. Lane Myer: Well, it’s funny, see, my mom, had to leave early to take my brother to school and my dad to work because… Johnny: 2 dollars. Cash. Lane Myer: See, the problem here is that… my little brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and uh… my grandmother dropped acid and she freaked out and hijacked a school bus full of… penguins, so it’s kind of a family crisis… so come back later? Great.
GREAT job on the video GB Flicks.Your attention to detail is good.I don't believe I've seen this film.I remember seeing Bachelor Party and Police Academy at the cinema,Police Academy had me laughing more and harder. LOL. Wish they'd do an update Police Academy comedy,we need the laughs. Keep up the GOOD work.
I really love this movie! Goofy and fun all the way through. And btw, when you say Brian Doyle Murray found a way to be funny yet different from Bill Murray, I think you're forgetting the fact that Brian is the older brother and was doing comedy before Bill.. So it was in fact Bill that found a way to be different from Brian!
Now, that's how you finish a video, with a bowling ball ball-shot to the balls. Great job on the video, Cecil. I have vague memories of this film, more like certain scenes, so I may have not seen this film in its entirety. Clara Peller was a national treasure at the time. I heard that when she did the first Wendy's commercial, she yelled her "Where's the beef?" line because she was hard of hearing. I should give this film a proper watch.
