okay, i have read some reviews and i can just not believe that you can 'like' this movie.
I make it short: This movie is really, really bad in terms of acting and story, but especially in acting.
I don't know, how you can not see this. The 'actors' just overact like hell. The story structure and the main characters are so weird and mixed up like a bad child-story.
Are the CGI and special effects good? Yeah, they are, but this does not help with the big cheesiness you get.
And the last 20 minutes are really cool. No really, they really are. But that's it.
I really like Short Circuit with Johnny Five. But this movie is just the dumped version of that. No charme, no structure, no sense.
District 9 was a milestone, Elysium a little disappointment, but this movie shows: Neil Blomkamp can not write good scripts with drama structure anymore.
2/10
One of my top favorite comedy movies of the 80s!
I know it's predictable.
I know the jokes are bad.
I know the story is as cookie-cutter as most of Hollywoods late 80s effort.
...BUT...I still like it.
Why?
John Candy's in it!!
I don't know what it was with that man, but he's as charismatic and funny as ever in a movie that shouldn't really have worked at all.
I don't say you should go out and buy it, but stick with it if you catch it on TV.
...and do catch the joke with the talking raccoons after the end credits.
