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Summary: Great John Candy Flick
Review: After over 10 years, I still never get tired of watching this movie and this is one of the few movies that me and my family talk about, the movie is about Cindy's aunt calling her in the middle of the night saying that her father suffered a heart attack so they need to leave for an emergency, but there's a problem, they don't have anybody to watch the kids, Cindy's husband Bob suggested Marcie who lives across the street but Cindy refused and decides that the Nevilles should take care of the kids, but the Nevilles weren't available then they decide to get Bob's brother Buck (the titled character and Cindy actually refused cause she didn't like Buck's carefree lifestyle of partying and gambling).
Then Uncle Buck gets woken up by the phone call and Bob tells Buck that they need somebody to watch the kids then Buck is honored to do so, there's a hilarious scene when Uncle Buck knocks on their door but it turns out to be the house across the street and the neighbor gets woken up, the parents leave is Uncle Buck checks out the antique plates and accidentally drops one but it didn't break but he bangs it on the piano but it breaks!!There's a hilarious scene when Uncle Buck was cooking breakfast and singing 'Tweedle Dee' and his rebelious teenage niece Tia shows up in a bad mood and she despises Uncle Buck but Miles and Maizy (Tia's younger brother and sister) likes him and he takes the kids to school and the car backfires, later on there's a hilarious scene when Uncle Buck picks up Tia, Tia is hanging out with her womanizing boyfriend Bug and the car again backfires, Bug askes Uncle Buck 'You ever hear of a tune-up, hee hee hee' Buck: 'Hee Hee Hee, you ever hear of a ritual killing, hee hee hee' Bug: 'I don't get it' Buck: 'You ever gnaw on her face like that again and you'll be one, hee hee hee' and takes off with the door open with Bug nearby. There's another classic scene during Miles's birthday when Uncle Buck makes them a giant pancake and the children's mother orders a clown to show up at Mile's birthday party but the clown shows up dead drunk and Uncle Buck wasn't happy about it and tells him to leave but the clown cusses at Uncle Buck and he punches the clown in the nose. Then Uncle Buck goes out and picks up Tia and tries to scare Bug with an ax is another scene, 'Wait a minute, Bug, Gnat, is there a similararity going on around here, whoo I guess there is'. Then Uncle Buck goes to Maizy's conference (which was scheduled with the mother) and the assistant principal has a huge wart on her nose and she introduces her, Buck: Buck's Wart Russell, not the wart, I'm the wart and the assistant principal claims that she sees a bad egg when she looks at Maizy and Uncle Buck gets onto her by telling her that she's so mean to everybody and gets onto to her and she feels hurt by it, another classic moment. Later on that night, Uncle Buck's girlfriend Chanice calls and askes for Buck but Tia lied to Chanice by telling her that Uncle Buck was cheating on her then the next morning, Marcie shows up at the rescidence wanting to dance with Uncle Buck then Chanice shows up and she thinks that Uncle Buck is cheating on her and cusses him out. Then Uncle Buck announces that he's going to the racetrack the following day but ends up not going cause Tia was going to Bug's party but Uncle Buck refused to let Tia go to it so he needed to find her, at Bug's house Uncle Buck walks on the stairs with a bunch of people around it and only to find that the girl that was in Bug's room wasn't Tia then Uncle Buck finds Tia all heartbroken and she apologizes Uncle Buck for all the pain she put him through and he forgives her and Tia askes Uncle Buck if he did anything to Bug, sure enough he put Bug inside the trunk and Uncle Buck askes Bug to apologize and Bug cusses at Uncle Buck and he tells Bug that he is an amatuer dentist and they leave Bug stranded and again, he cusses at Bug and he got what was coming to him, another classic scene and to bad that network television had to edit out that part. Then Tia now respects Uncle Buck and Chanice gave Uncle Buck another chance cause Tia confessed to what she told Chanice and Mom and Dad came home and Cindy's father survived the heart attack and they became a better family from that point on. I think that Uncle Buck is one of the best comedies of all time and it's especially one of John Candy's best performances and my only gripe about this movie is the constant swearing (for a PG movie, it should've been PG-13 and some of the sexual content like that one scene they showed inside the school when a guy grabs a girl's buttocks or when Bug was down on that other girl) but overall it's a classic movie and it's better than half of the comedies that's around today.
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Summary: An absolute, hilarious, joyous film....
Review: This is one of my personal favorites; and John Candy was a terrific comedian. There are so many funny scenes in this movie, every other minute you're sure to be laughing. From the moment he arrives, the intro to the kids, handling drunk clowns, bitter school officials, preying punks descending upon his oldest niece, LARGE birthday breakfast for Culkin's character, et al...this is just a heartwarming, family fun flick to view. I've seen this countless times; and it never grows dull. Was a success at the box office; as one sees this for their 1st time, they'll know why. Highly recommended, and sad that John Candy passed away too young, and we being robbed of this man's fine talent.
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Summary: Another John Candy Masterpiece!
Review: This is another one of his grand masterpieces. John Candy has one of his finest opportunities in this film by John Hughes about a perpetual screw-up who gets his act together enough to watch over his brother's kids effectively. He does so effectively in this 1989 film, and is considered by me to be one of the funniest movies ever made! Hughes's direction is not as focused as it was only a few years before, but there's no mistaking his touch. I've yet to see a bad Candy movie, They are all outstanding, and Uncle Buck is one of his best. My personal favorite Candy movie is Who's Hharry Crumb? which I also recommend you checking out. Macaulay Culkin is in it, and if you haven't heard, he is acting again. Unfortuneately Candy passed away, and it is ashamed, because he is the only actor in movie history who was never in a bad movie. Buy this now along with Who's Harry Crumb?, you won't regret it!
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Summary: Uncle Buck
Review: One of the funniest movies I've ever seen!!! Great Movie!!!
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Summary: Everyone's favorite Uncle
Review: Everyone has that one relative that they love most of all, who lets them stay up past their bedtime and eat whatever they want, but can also be the bad guy. In this movie, John Candy is the last resort babysitter for his nieces and nephew when his brother and sister-in-law suddenly have to go out of state for a medical emergency on her side of the family. He sort of fumbles a bit at the beginning, but he learns quickly how much he cares about the kids he barely knows and what extremes he will go to just to protect them (especially from mean principals and boyfriends named "Bug"). In the end he changes his own ways, realizing how he has been alienating those he loves with his reckless gambling.
Macaulay Culkin is memorable as Buck's nephew Myles and Laurie Metcalf as the wacky neighbor Marcie. This is a funny movie, but also has some touching moments. Truly a gem for the whole family to enjoy.
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Summary: FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY
Review: This is one of my all time favorite movies. Poor Buck...he is such a messup yet so love-able. John Candy's largeness (sadly what helped lead to his death), just makes his presence funny alone...without any words spoken. Suprisingly there are quite a few risque' moments and swear words...might wanna be careful for young kids. Still a very funny movie with a nice, touching ending.
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Summary: Good Movie! >> Lousy DVD!
Review: This is a funny movie, with John Candy as a irresponsible brother in-law who is called to watch his brother's kids, it turns out that he is a caring & lovable uncle who helps his teenage niece who is going through adolesent confusion come to terms with her own identity, the jokes are a riot as he intimidates her using boyfriend, punches a clown that shows up drunk to entertain his younger nephew(Maculey Culkin before "Home Alone"), or his fixing gigantic pancakes for breakfast, John Candy was at his best here, my only real complaint is the DVD itself, Widescreen Review gave it a 4 in picture quality, it is more like a 2, the fleshtones are so off, it isn't even funny, it looked better on video or the USA Network, but for some reason it is grainy on DVD, which is very disappointing to say the least, on video or T.V., the fleshtones are accurate, on DVD they are not!
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Summary: Don't let Uncle Buck into your home
Review: I don't like this silly ole movie,even though I think Candy is a good comedian.And they play dorky music in it as well.
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Summary: Creepy uncle.
Review: The movie that effectively finished John Hughes as an A-list director. Looking at the mostly positive reviews below mine makes me ponder how weird you all must be. *Uncle Buck* rightly tanked at the box office back in 1989; there's certainly no reason to apply a revisionist brush now, unless maybe you're an uptight moralist who would enjoy watching an uncle spend an entire movie's duration serving as a wet blanket to his teenaged niece's dirty, dirty lust. And that's what the movie's about. Needless to say, this essentially creepy plot device clashes mightily with the film's sitcom trappings. One hates to spend time on a synopsis, but this movie's so bad that a set-up seems required to do it justice in a review. . . . A well-to-do family has a crisis. The parents are called away, leaving the 3 kids at the mercy of Uncle Buck (John Candy), whose slatternly, slobby presentation is a flimsy cover for the self-righteous prig within. He finds himself immediately at odds with the oldest child, a sullen 15-year-old girl who has apparently spent her life getting away with murder under the noses of her ineffectual parents. Well, not so under the new regime of Uncle Buck: he watches over her like a hawk, taking her to and picking her up from school, setting curfews, demanding to know where the parties are and who she's going with, and all in all "ruining her life". This sounds like quite admirable guardianship, but the way that it's presented is awfully disturbing. I'll pass by the many details that savor of violence (axes and other sharp objects are brandished). It culminates in Uncle Buck fetching the girl from a party where her boyfriend nearly rapes her. The crazy uncle then binds and gags the jerk boyfriend and throws him in the trunk of a car. One is inclined to speculate that John Hughes was having problems with a teenage daughter of his own, and *Uncle Buck* was his way of venting his frustrations. It's puzzling. Hughes had always LIKED teenagers. They were always purer than the corrupted, compromised adults in his earlier movies. Something obviously changed his outlook -- I suspect it was personal. The movie is a 100-minute moralizing screed, hectoring, baleful, ugly, creepy in its obsession with the teenaged heroine's maidenhead (whenever she gets close to 2nd base, up pops Uncle Buck, wielding a letter-opener or something like it), and finally unendurable... Speaking of..., John Candy was grievously overweight here: it's hardly surprising that the poor guy passed away not long after this. Also sad is that the self-righteous script doesn't permit him to earn any substantial laughs. There's a funny bit when he can't a word in edgewise with his angry girlfriend on the phone, but that's it.
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Summary: Deceptively clever
Review: I found that this movie managed to "slip in" tenderness and integrity cloaked in poop jokes and John Candy's trademark silliness. There is a moment (don't want to spoil it for you) when John Candy gets a simple piece of evidence about how much his family discounts and dislikes him that, to anyone who has experienced any kind of estrangement or divorce, can rip you up before you even know what is happening. It passes quickly though and the movie's essential mode returns with straight up "Self absorbed bachelor meets cute and manipulating youngsters" jokes and gags. I personally love John Candy's work and thought it a crime that he left the world so young. I would place this in the same emotional impact category as "Say Anything" which had a wonderfully silly side but some strong roots in everyday/every family problems and resolution. Delightful all the way around.
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