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I picked this up on DVD since the fellas on Last Podcast on the Left mention it all the time. However, the reason I post about it here is that on another podcast the host went on and on trashing it (Pop Culture Pete). And then of course it is of course regarded as notoriously bad with Roger Ebert refusing to write a review for it and it bombing at the box office.

As for my impressions I found it to be an enjoyable time. But with horror elements combined with some of the biggest names of comedy from the 1980s/early 1990s, I’m pretty predisposed to enjoy such a film.

Anyway, what do you fine folks think of this one?

i love it and it's easily one of my favorite films, i have it on VHS and dvd. i dunno if it's on blu-ray though to be honest i love this film so much that now get this,

my brother thought it was terrible when he first saw it that he at some point went back and watched it cause he saw how much i love this film that he ended up changing his mind about the thing. that NEVER has happened before or since on any other film that i can think of no joke. yeah i know it bombed when it came out

i also am a huge Digital Underground fan as well so that was another reason why i  wanted to see it too.

Classic bad movie that is usually loved by many. I've only seen it once or twice back in the 90s. I was impressed by the set design but didn't care much about the rest. I thought for a comedy it failed at making me laugh.

I never gave the film a chance to grow on me. Wouldn't mind to revisit but it is not available on blu.

ya know i hope it does make you laugh now that you are older and even if it doesn't i give you props for at least giving it a chance.  i've got a dark sense of humor so this film is perfect for me. though i do wish they had used the Original title though

It's an enjoyable mess.

I run a "what was that movie" site on the side, and for a while this was one of the most asked about movies. It seems everyone had caught a minute or two of it when it constantly played on HBO in the 90s, and it stuck in their mind.

Dan Aykroyd's character's nose looks unmistakably like a small penis.

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It wasn't my pick, but others insisted, so it made 366 Weird Movies' list of the weirdest movies of all time: https://366weirdmovies.com/269-nothing-but-trouble-1991/

I saw it for the first time earlier this year, though I have been curious about it for a very long time. 

As I somewhat expected, it was a total dumpster fire of a movie. For a supposed "comedy" it wasn't terribly funny, but I enjoyed it for the bizarre set designs and its overall weird vibe (and for Demi Moore's short skirt and cleavage). 

I think Aykroyd was going for a mix of "Beetlejuice" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" but as a first time director he didn't have the chops to pull it off successfully.

The movie definitely torpedo'd Chase & Aykroyd's statuses as comedy A-listers. I don't think either of their careers ever recovered from it.

It's a bizarre movie that at times seems like it doesn't even know what kind of movie it wants to be, but it's certainly an interesting one. 

I do like the setting of this movie.  The old style house with its secrets and traps (and this is pre -Saw in the middle of a trash dump over a mine fire that's been burring for years.  Like it almost combines the settings of Resident Evil and Silent Hill together, sans the supernatural elements.  I mean, the judge seems to be abnormally old, and then there's the  twins-but all still fall in the more naturalistic side of things.  I could see a stealth based game being made out of this movie.

yes it is a Bizzar film and it's not for everyone to say the least, i don't think it killed anyone's career Dan Ackroyd's career he has done far worse movies such as Ghostbusters (2016) for example.

Chevy Chase? no his film career started to go downhill once he stopped doing R rated films and started to do family pictures. he changed it when he became a father. John Candy" uh no he's done far far worse The Clown Murders" (1976) anyone? that film is really awful and he's done worse than that too check out It seemed like a good idea at the time (1975) and Find The lady (1976) the sequel is worse and i think his worst film. 

but yeah i can see this being a video game, my dream video game is easily The Dark Tower Series i dunno why they never made it a video game but it would so freaking work.

I'd day Vega Vacation and the Checy Chase Show are what killed Checy Chase's career, that and his behind the scenes antics. 

With John Candy, I think he died before his career could. 

it wasn't just Vegas Vacation he had a lot of flops Invisible Man (1992) a film i liked was a huge flop he had one flop after another honestly can anyone remember the last hit he even had in the 90's? it wasn't because of this movie either "Cops & Robbers (1994) i think its' name was? is actually a pretty good movie but it flopped as well as did Vegas Vacation.

but no doubt it was my guess also his Ego as well. and i agree about Candy his films still did pretty good before he died as far as i can tell anyways. they weren't bad enough to kill his career though

It's a film I would have liked to have seen developed a bit more. It could have been a great film or maybe a really kooky TV show.

that's a fair remark on it i do agree with that i wish it had been developed more i also think it's vastly underrated though i wonder if it would have been a hit had it been released today?  it is different though and it has the chick from Mr. Mom i believe who said i know what's wrong with your TV set This Shoe.


great line i think and i forget her name too, i do get a good chuckle that you can hear the balloons that Candy is Wearing when he's dressed as the daughter and he gives Chevy Chase a great big hug.   i doubt that was on purpose though, it makes me wonder how many takes they did of that cause the balloons popped?

 :teddyr:

Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (1992) was not as bad as critics made it out to be, it just seemed at times that it didn't know whether it wanted to be serious or a comedy. And Cool Runnings (1993) is still one of my favorite John Candy movies, and not just because he died that year. It's hard to even call him a comedian in that film; the film is a comedy but not because of John Candy; his role was more serious and low-key when you watch him in it.

looking it up Candy died in (1994) i can tell you what i was doing the day i found out he died actually me and my brother were watching 'The Love Bug (1969) on The Disney Channel as a matter of Fact. i love Chevy Chase's Invisible Man film and i agree with you part of it was serious and the rest was a comedy that was no doubt added from added some of it from Chevy himself. i dunno if it was all ad lib but it's a better film than most people think it is at least i think so anyways and Cool Running's (1993) is a classic Comedy and yeah it had serious moments but most comedy's have that i think.

the real reason that Chevy's career tanked for years is simply one reason and one reason only family movies he insisted on only doing them and that limits your talent i think. i dunno what films he does now cause i haven't seen a movie from him in years but his kids are now grown and adults he should branch out outside of family movies and do something different now.

Yes, you are right on both counts. I could have sworn that John Candy died in 1993 going as far back as I could remember, even in 1994. Maybe because the last movie of his that I saw and is still one of my favorites is Cool Runnings (1993). I know there were a couple more released after that. And yeah, Chevy Chase really hamstrung himself by sticking to family type movies. I always thought that he was at his best when he used raunchy humor like a lot of his '80s movies. When a comedian like that bottles his or her edge, they become too safe and packaged neatly for "kids of all ages." Examples are comedians like Bob Saget and Jeff Foxworthy, who did similar things to their own careers, but watching their older stand-up routines where they used raunchy humor was them at their best, in my opinion.  :cheers:

Wagon's East (1994) was his last film he did i think before he did but he also did Canadian Bacon (1995) which i actually  haven't seen  it's the only film that wasn't a Documentary that Michael Moore ever did. 

and i agree 100% about Chevy and him in adult roles per say. with Saget i don't think he cleaned up his act but even he has said that playing Danny Tanner  really felt weird and it took time for him to get used to well not being Raunchy if i'm not mistaken his stand up is that way it's not clean and if you really think about it the only thing as far as i know that he's done that is clean is Full house and it's sequel.  i don't know his career that well though to be fair, i dunno about Jeff Foxworthy cause i just know his bit of you might be a redneck....

Eddie Murphy did the same thing for years where he stopped doing R rated films for many years but only did family films, some of them were good don't get me wrong but some of them....  let's see he did Metro (1997) which was awful but it had one really funny line it about being Fred Sandford i don't remember what it is though offhand.  and than there's i think Life or Bowfinger both (1999) both films i think are R and both of them i think are some of his weakest films  i mean they aren't terrible by any means but they are Meh in my opinion.

than the next one he did that was R was the Dolemite films (2019) which i have not seen yet and he's going back to do stand up and i have no idea if it's cleaned up or not

Saget also played the dad in a little family movie called “Father & Scout.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_and_Scout

He later made a family sitcom for The WB: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Dad

And he hosted America’s Funniest Home Videos.

i was just going by memory i could not at the time remember anything he had done after that or during it, yeah i forgot he was a host there.

Right again. I also forgot about Canadian Bacon (1995) which John Candy was fantastic in. I mainly remember Bob Saget from America's Funniest Home Videos where his humor was cringeworthy at best. I never watched Full House because of America's Funniest Home Videos.

The last truly funny Eddie Murphy movie that I'd seen that felt close to his classic movies was Norbit (2007). After that, it was almost like he just disappeared into obscurity.

that one i haven't seen yet all i ever hear is how bad it is

I never gave it a chance until recently because of all the crap that I heard about The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002). But I have a warped sense of humor. I find fat women in movies to be very funny, because they are always used as either comic relief or to be just fat and obnoxious, and Eddie Murphy plays a fat chick in Norbit (2007).  :teddyr:

i tried to watch pluto nash (2002) made in (2000) actually but i could not get through it cause it was just so damn awful and it's not that the reputation of it is pushing me away it's just that i haven't gotten around to watch it that's all. 

I think anyone interested in bad movies should see Nothing But Trouble.  It's fascinating, in bad and good ways.  It's clear to me that Dan Akroyd has pretty great creativity - I actually wish he'd do more writing, but get a REALLY GOOD editor to filter out his worst impulses.  If Nothing But Trouble had been Akroyd's PITCH and then he'd worked with Ivan Reitman and other people to shape it, it could have been a minor horror-comedy classic.  But as is, it's still utterly nuts and filled with bonkers ideas - and thus worth seeing.

Part of me agrees with you, but another part of me thinks that the unedited nuts and bonkers ideas are what makes the movie. 

It might not work the way it's supposed to, but it's memorable. 

Agree with Chainsaw here. Smoothing out the rough edges would more likely have made it into an average, forgettable comedy rather than the minor classic of bad cinema it is.

You two may have a point.  Thinking about it a little more, I definitely don't think it could have been reworked into a legitimately great or even very good film from Akroyd's ideas as Ghostbusters was (the original concepts for that movie Akroyd came up with don't sound nearly as good, IMO at least) - just a decent one.  Maybe a fascinating bad movie was the best conclusion we could have hoped for.

I remember a quote from Carpenter saying that neither he or Chase wanted to do a comedy with that material. I think it's an OK film and certainly ranks among Chase's best together with the two Fletch movies. I know that's not saying much, though. Looking for that Carpenter quote, I found this other one at the IMDB. It's much more harsh on the film and the conditions it was made under.


As for "Nothing Nut Trouble", I remember watching it on TV years ago and hating it. Not funny, that's all.

it's one of those films that not everyone will like, as i said my brother hated it for a longest time and than after i became a fan of it cause the 1st time i saw it was laughing my ass off, especially at that ending as well with Chevy Chase running away from them. a sequel is what i've always wanted but too many years have passed and since it was a flop at the time nobody would even bother going back anyways.

anyways he went back and watched and was i think pretty surprised that he ended up liking the film. now we do favorite quotes of it. i think it's a vastly underrated film but it's also a film i can see why people would hate it too.

I liked it much better the second time around. Took a while to grow on me.

it is one of those films that you have to see it more than once. that's not always true though i tried watching blair witch for example at least 3 times and that film is just utter garbage but than i hate found footage movies cause they just end up making me dizzy as hell. but i gave that film a chance a couple times at least.

though that one was a huge hit for some strange reason yet this wasn't now that one i can't figure out but oh well one is actually enjoyable in it's own way and than you have the horror film that is a horror to watch where it should have stayed a script and only  a script.