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Just what I expected

Good movie but grossly overrated

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Pulled over for speeding in a small country town, a financial adviser and his companions are subjected to strange forms of justice at the mercy of an eccentric local judge in this bizarre horror comedy. The film was a commercial flop and was nominated for several Razzies in its day, but it is actually a more worthwhile movie than its reputation might suggest. The judge's manor at the very least is a magnificent feat of art direction, full of trap doors, hidden elevators, closing walls and a roller-coaster that ends with its riders being crushed to death (how they enforce the death penalty). Some of the zaniness comes off as weird simply for the sake of it, including two blob creatures that live in the nearby junkyard, but a fair amount of the dark humour works as the film focuses on the dangers of breaking the rules in places where the letter of the law might not always be applied. Balancing both comedy and horror, the film is never quite as funny or scary as it may have been had writer-director Dan Aykroyd chosen to just focus on one genre, but the great imagination he displays here makes it seem a shame that the film's negative reception caused him to give up directing altogether. The very mechanically wired courtroom and equally as wired dinner table are great, and Aykyrod is clearly having a lot of fun here, having cast himself in the scene-stealing role of the cantankerous judge.

This film reminds me of a number of very bizarre early 1990's films "Freaked", "Death Becomes Her", "Meet the Feebles", and "People Under the Stairs", to name a few. There is a really good chance, if you liked any, or one of those films, this film will appeal to you. Though it is best to come to this film without expectations.I have seen the box of this movie many times since it came out, I would have been 6yrs when it came out originally, and the box intrigued me, but Dan Akroyd's get-up always repulsed me, and it still does! I found this movie very cheaply the other day and decided to buy it and give it a try, I discerned from the box this was either going to be as bad as "Class Reunion" was, which had a lot of hope, or it would be an entertaining and bizarre film that likely will never be largely enjoyed by the masses, and the latter ended up being true.We really never know anything about these characters, and that isn't the point. I actually find it irritating that critics always like to say "No character development" as an insult, sometimes, it honestly is a bonus. In a film such as this one, it is definitely a positive. Character development would have seriously bogged the pace of this movie, and it is very clear the point of this film is to be quirky, bizarre, and ridiculous. All of which it is. This is not a belly-laugh type comedy, it is very much a dark comedy, and at times, definitely induces some anxiety, and even a little fear. I think the only time I laughed was from John Candy, but revealing why would spoil some of the plot, and I don't want to do that. There are definitely a number of humorous set-ups and somewhat scary situations, that by the end turn out to be a bit humorous. This isn't a horror film, but it certainly has some elements, and certainly plays on some old horror tropes about hicks in tiny little towns, but in a way I have never seen in any other film. This is not a classic, though it might deserve a slight cult following, it is definitely a film worth revisiting if you hated it when you watched it 20yrs ago, or a film worth watching if you never did. I am confused as to how Akroyd got funding for this film, as it is just bizarre, but at the same time, I am really glad he did. It is kind of encouraging when weird films like this get made, and it is a shame Hollywood rarely makes anything this fun and silly anymore. That now anytime something isn't PC it gets run under the bus. Most of my favorite films are not PC, because PC doesn't allow for humor or satire or reality. It only allows lies and false perceptions in, period. If you don't have a bizarre sense of humor, stay far away. God Bless ~Amy

I'd give this horrible movie a zero if the rating numbers allowed me to. This movie was sickening, perverse, evil, and was total putrescense. I cannot believe the terrific, rave reviews for this movie. I also saw a number of other awful reviews too, so I guess my thoughts on this film are not alone."Nothing but trouble" was awful and sickening. It star Chevy Chase and Demi Moore who decide to go to Atlantic city for the weekend. Two other Spanish colleagues of thiers, but not quite friends, invite themselves againced Cheve's will to tag along last minute. On route, the guy colleague Randy, an arrogant jerk, persuades Cheve to take a shortcut and also to speed. Randy gets pressuring about it. "Come on man, you have a BMW, act like it!" Then they drive through a mysterious dusty looking ghost town. While passing through it, Cheve unknowingly runs a stop sign. Cop John Candy sees this and starts pursuing them. When he stops them, he orders them to follow him. They follow him into a very strange and erie area and up to an ancient looking dilapidated creepy old house. Inside the house is even creepier. It's filthy, cluttered, and mothball eaten with bizarre looking gadgets and accessories.Then they meet the judge. From this point onward in the film is nightmarishly horrible. The part of the film leading up to this point was not too good itself, but now the film turned dreadful, disgusting, and scary. But not scary in a good horror movie way. Scary in a sick, vomit inducing, mentally traumatizing way. The judge, played by Dan Aykroyd, is one sick, evil, disgusting thing. He sends many of his "defendants" onto a conveyor belt which carries them into a flesh stripping, murderous machine called bonestripper. The machine even shows bones being shot out of it after people were sucked into it. There are other freaky, scary traps in the house too. Then there's the creatures of the house itself. The Judge's nose looks very much like something you really don't want to see on a man's face, and that image itself has giving me nightmares and literally made me vomit, literally! Then the judge can also pull parts of his body off and on again. Then there's these two hideous freak fat creatures that live right outside the house in the dumpyard. Then there's the moat which is literally raw sewage. Then there's the hotdogs the judge forces his guests to eat for dinner. And the hot dogs are made of, well I'll just say too words. Bonestripper. Cannibalism. This was the most sickning, evil, revolting, perverse, horrible, dreadful movie I've ever seen.

You know the film has a few decent characteristics... the set design is pretty cool and there's a little be of an uncomfortable gore/make-up edge to it, but that's about it.It's not funny at all. The whole concept seems absolutely ridiculous. Way TOO over-the-top imo. I've revisited-it once since watching-it in the theater, and it's still as bad as I remembered.Slightly entertaining sight gags nearly, and I mean NEARLY make it passable.A cast that includes Akroyd, Chase, and Demi Moore drew us in, but I remember the entire audience(at least the one's I heard) being quite disgruntled with this odd and unfunny mess of a movie.I'd pass. 34/100