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Weekend at Bernie's

Weekend at Bernie's

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funniest movie ever!
Review: This movie is great.its so funny.I couldn't stop laughing.From the beginning of the movie to the end I was laughing.its funny because they are so stupid.Both of the boys are so funny and stupid in the movie.You will love this movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just Funny!
Review: This movie is just funny, that's all I have to say about it, it didn't make any sense but who cares it is just pure fun. This movie released in 1989 showed '80s style at its best and Andrew McCarthy is a very funny man. I don't know why he isn't still around. Anyways buy this movie and enjoy yourself don't anylize it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Stupidly Funny!
Review: This movie still makes me laugh with my friends. It's a great one to view with your buddies on a boring weekend.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FUNNY MOVIE
Review: This movie was very funny. I think my favorite part was the boat scene, I still laugh wheever I watch it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: How Low Can You Sink?
Review: To actually produce a sequel, four years later, to a film about the hijinks of dragging a dead body around? What's wrong with these people? What's wrong with society?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The corpse is the "life" of the party!
Review: Two young insurance company employees, Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) discover an instance of fraud and report it to their boss Bernie (Terry Kiser). Unfortunately for them, Bernie is the one behind the fraud, and he asks his mobster associate to take them out. Unfortunately for Bernie, the mobster sends his hit man to eliminate Bernie instead. Larry and Richard arrive at Bernie's gorgeous beach house for the weekend and, after discovering that Bernie is dead, manage to make it look like he is still alive so that they can enjoy the rest of the weekend.

An uncomplicated, very slightly plotted farce that is actually pretty fun if it hits you in the right frame of mind. The whole thing is extremely silly and yet extremely funny at times. McCarthy and Silverman are very lively, but Kiser completely steals the movie as the title corpse. I first noticed this amusing actor on a hilarious episode of 'Three's Company', and have remained amused by his performances ever since. However, I think that sad-eyed cult actor Don Calfa ("Chopper Chicks in Zombietown", "The Return of the Living Dead" is also worth mentioning, in a good comedy performance as the hit man who grows increasingly flustered in his attempts to kill Bernie once and for all. Catherine Mary Stewart is attractive and appealing enough as the girl Richard is interested in.

It also seems to be part satire: a commentary on self-absorbed rich jerks who are so into what they themselves are doing that they can't notice (or even sense) that Bernie is dead.

The movie's Canadian director, Ted Kotcheff, appears on screen as Richard's father.

All in all, a good comedy. I give it 4/5.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This is the best god-damn movie I've ever seen!
Review: Weekend at Bernies combines humor, funniness, laughing, and other stuff. It is good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Brilliant
Review: Weekend at Bernies is one of my favourite all time comedies. Great script, some hilarious moments along with Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman make it a great film. BUY IT!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Completely idiotic...which is why people love it...
Review: While Weekend at Bernie's may not have invented the "drag around a dead guy for 90 minutes" genre, it is certainly a welcome entry.

What do you need to know about this film? Chances are, if you're reading this far, you know the premise. Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser, in the role of a lifetime) is dead... but in order to save themselves from the same hitmen that whacked out Bernie, his bumbling employees at a New York insurance firm have to keep up a charade and pretend Bernie is alive. Which leads to scenes of Bernie being dragged around, falling down, waterskiing (including the CLONGGGG sound of his head hitting a buoy), having his toupee stapled back on, being dropped some more, etc.

The film is pretty dumb. But I wouldn't expect, nor would I probably accept, anything else. It's a one-joke flick, sure, but if you love tasteless humor and a good guilty pleasure of a laugh, you will get some quality chuckles from this one.

On the (rare) occasion that I see Terry Kiser in another film, I can't help but think of...Bernie. This is pretty much the highlight of his career (unless you consider his preceeding role as a whacky psychiatrist in Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood to be superior).

Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman are pretty good as the bumbling (and alive) comedy team here. The locales are nice to look at as well. I personally like Bernie, poolside, playing Monopoly while his arm is in a pulley device so that he can wave to passersby.

Tasteless and lovable film.


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