Used Cars

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Summary: Sublime Insanity in a Used Car Lot!
Review: USED CARS was director Robert Zemeckis' follow-up to the sweet, sentimental I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND, and, as he joked in his audio commentary, he wanted to cut loose, swear, and do something supremely tasteless as a follow-up. He succeeded magnificently!

This is a wild tribute to corruption, deceit, and dishonesty, in a field second only to politics in tarnished reputations! Kurt Russell is the crooked head salesman in a broken-down car lot, saving money to buy a seat in Congress "where the really BIG kickback money is". His boss, sweet-natured Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), has a bad heart and a twin brother, truly nasty Roy Fuchs (also Warden, who is wonderful in the dual roles) running a competing used car lot across the highway. Evil Fuchs NEEDS his brother's dealership, as a state highway is about to be built over his lot, so he has an employee pose as a customer, and 'try out' one of Luke's cars with the old man in the car. After the test drive from Hell, Luke stumbles inside his trailer, and dies from a heart attack.

Russell realizes any hope to raise enough cash to run for office would be shattered with Fuch's death, so he and his fellow employees bury the old man and his car in the lot, and fibs that Fuchs had left town on vacation. Then Fuchs' daughter, Barbara (Deborah Harmon) arrives, and things get sticky!

The film becomes a live-action Warner Bros. cartoon, as 'good guy' Russell and 'bad guy' Warden try scheme after scheme to ruin the other...Warden offers a carnival in his lot, Russell offers strippers...Warden does TV commercials, Russell brings in two disreputable cable guys ('Lenny and Squiggy' Michael McKean and David L. Lander) to break into a Presidential address with an 'R'-rated ad that would leave the FCC in apoplexy! This insanity builds to an epic climax, as hundreds of junkyard cars, driven by Driver's Ed students, race to fill Russell's car lot, and prevent a court-ruled closing.

The cast is matchless; in addition to Russell, Warden, and Harmon, outrageous humor is provided by Gerrit Graham (who gleefully shotguns Warden's cars in another 'illegal' TV spot), and Frank McRae, as a mechanic you DON'T want to disagree with. And don't forget a certain dog, who outperforms nearly everyone in the cast!

This is the ONLY 'R'-rated film Zemeckis has ever directed (the BACK TO THE FUTURE trilogy and FORREST GUMP are among his later triumphs), yet USED CARS was a commercial failure when first released, despite rave reviews. AIRPLANE! came out at the same time, and, unfortunately, the public wasn't interested in watching TWO 'over-the-top' comedies. So USED CARS languished, until video and dvd reintroduced it to a new generation.

It's growing status a a cult classic is perhaps the BEST proof the "Crime Pays" in USED CARS!

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Summary: This film is a classic of humor!
Review: This movie is a riot. Although it does contain some vulgar language and partial nudity, such is well within the context of the film and is essential (in my opinion) to the humorous "punch" that the film delivers. The movie is definitely *not* for young children, but I personally regard it OK for most kids over age 12, considering the social maturity of today's teens.

You're in for a treat if you have not already viewed "Used Cars". Otherwise, you'll enjoy seeing it again... & again.

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Summary: This is one of my top ten favorites but
Review: I love this movie, but it is not family friendly! It contains fowl language, simulated sex and nudity.

Russell is a car salesman that has to take over the store when his boss dies and the bosses twin brother (a bad guy) wants to take over. Turns out that the boss had a daughter who just shows up and the fun begins. Take out the nudity and sex, and this has all the look and feel of a Herbie the Love Bug type of Disney movie that would have found an audience for those seeking family friendly offerings.

A 5 star movie if edited, down-graded to 4 stars as is.

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Summary: That movie is SO AWESOME!!!
Review: Kurt Russell stars in the movie as Rudy Russo, who is Luke's ace salesman, meanwhile Luke (Jack Warden) competes with his younger brother Roy (also by Jack Warden) who is a nasty creep and Roy is trying to take over Luke's car lot but Rudy won't let that happen, and by the way, Luke has a heart condition and he takes pills for it. Later that night Roy sends a young friend of his named Mickey who works for the demolition derby and he goes out on a test drive in a '57 Chevy with Luke in the front seat and Mickey is driving insane and Luke loses his pills and Mickey winds up destroying the '57 Chevy and Luke died of a heart attack which was set up by his younger brother Roy, then Rudy and his co-workers Jeff and mechanic Jim ended up burying him inside a '58 Edsel and Rudy winds up taking over the car lot, later on in the movie Luke's daughter Barbara shows up the car lot and she is looking for her father but Rudy lies to Barbara by telling her that Luke went to Miami then the two ended up going out on a date and later she finds out that Luke is dead but the boys got the Edsel out of the ground and a dead Luke ends up driving the Edsel which ended up crashing into a electricity system and Barbara ends up taking over the car, meanwhile at a commercial Barbara tells the cameraman that she has a style of cars to choose from but Roy and his friends ended up putting in mile so she can get in trouble for false advertisement and she ended up in court for it, and the Judge tells Barbara that she has up until 2:45 to have a mile of cars or she loses the lot, but Roy doesn't want that to happen and they have a bunch of high schoolers to test drive the cars (sometimes I wish that they still made cars like that today instead of those import cars like Honda and Toyota) and they ended up having a mile of cars and Barbara ends up taking over the car lot.

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Summary: Incredibly crass, and very funny
Review: This movie isn't gross; it's not overly concerned with bodily fluids (although there is a urine joke.) It's crass in the extreme, though. Strippers, property damage, and easily one of the sickest death jokes ever uttered all populate this movie.
Oh, it's also amazingly funny. I bought it two days ago, have seen it twice, and nearly busted a gut laughing both times!

It won't make you the classiest person around, but if you're looking for some definite low humor, this'll do you!

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Summary: Very Funny yet typical stereotype of car salesmen.
Review: Though I'd like to see the stereotype of car sales people change I dont believe that will happen any time soon. It is nice to continue to find humor in their behaviors on screen and off. Curt Russell is "laugh yourself silly" with his big hair and fun clothes. I would recommend this movie to everyone and encourage (if you like stronger language) both "Suckers" on DVD and "Cars and People, pissing at 60 miles an hour" by Anthony Ziegler a novella.

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Summary: Classic Americana
Review: People who don't understand used cars don't understand America. Those people probably won't like this movie. This movie is the very best kind of low grade humor. Excellent.

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Summary: so funny it's laughable
Review: one of the best comedies made in the last 40 years. admittedly not a lot of critics think so, but just even thinking about incidents in this movie make me laugh today. kurt russell was never better, much better than his dreary tough guy roles. in this movie he seemed totally true to himself. also magnificent is Frank McCrae and Jack Warden, plus Tobey the dog and Russell's sidekick. in its own way it's quite perfect.

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Summary: Zemeckis Lite
Review: Who would have guessed that the director of this piece of low humor would go on to direct Forrest Gump and Cast Away (although the wild humor was his specialty in the pre-Gump era)? Kurt Russell stars as Rudy Russo, used car salesman for Luke Fuchs, in competition with Roy Fuchs, across the street.

The bulk of the film is taken up with the competition between the two lots and the sabotaging of the other lot's sales opportunities. The humor is involved in the drastic measures used to sell used cars. Freddie and Eddie (David L. Lander and Michael McKean) are communications experts that Rudy uses to interrupt via satellite both the Super Bowl and the State of the Union Address to broadcast their cheesy commercials involving gunfire and women in various stages of undress.

The jokes come fast and furious, but if you like your comedy sophisticated, you'd best stay away. This is for fans of simple car-crash flick like Smokey and the Bandit. The climax involves having 250 used cars driven by student drivers. Jack Warden gives a two terrific performances as the Fuchs brothers, co-seller Jeff's (Gerrit Graham) superstitions are also good for several belly laughs, and Russel makes Rudy a surprisingly sympathetic character (considering he's an "uncompromising" salesman).

This is the perfect film for when you've had a rough day and are just looking for some mind-numbing way to kill a couple of hours. Car crashes, naked women, false advertising, this movie has it all.

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Summary: Get their friendship, get their confidence,get their trust..
Review: ...then get their money! This movie is the funniest movie about the people that everyone loves to hate...USED CAR SALESMEN!
There are so many one-liners, and situations that make you laugh out loud in this movie. After getting reactions from people from this movie, I've come to realize people either get the jokes or they do not. I saw it in the theater when it came out, and I have never heard as much sustained laughter in any movie since then ( ok, maybe in "Office Space" ), especially during the Carter speech commercial: New Deal Used Cars! Did you hear what I said?!" . Almost 5 minutes of laughter after the scene ended!
I really think this was Kurt Russel's best role he has ever played, which is just too bad for him. But he plays the PERFECT
sleazy used car salesman, and it seems like the role he was born to play. Jack Warden's dual starring role as the twin brothers who are so different really showed what a great under-rated actor he was ( especially as Roy )! The back end of the movie dragged a bit in it's pacing, when they are driving the caravan of cars, but all in all the movie ends up well. ITS A RED CAR!