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Summary: A Very Entertaining Movie!
Review: This was a hoot of a movie. Humor at it's very best. Kurt Russell has never been better. Jack Warden was outstanding playing two brother who are in the car business competing with each other.One of the brothers dies and a fake wreck is staged by Russell. In the mean time every kind of sales trick that you can think of is tried by the competing car dealers. Kurt Russell even manages to cut into a prime time football game with a television ad. The results are hilarious.This movie takes car salesmen to a new level. The actors are good and the plot is good. Buy this movie. You will not be dissapointed.
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Summary: The best comedy ever made!
Review: This is the funniest movie I've ever seen. By far. In it, Kurt Russell elevates sleaze to an art form. The other actors, especially Jack Warden, turn in maybe the best performances of their careers. But what really separates this movie from the pack is the quality of the writing--way, way better than what you see in even above-average comedies. The jokes are set up with care and precision, and the punch lines always score a perfect "10". The sub-plots all get tied together. The characters are well drawn. There's a perfect mix of physical and verbal humor, of wit and profanity. Certain scenes, like the patched-in commercials, should have you laughing for days. And even though the movie goes back to the Carter administration...it's fresh. All this is testimony to a great script, perfectly executed with first class acting and direction. Warning: it drags a little at the end, but you won't mind, because you'll be laughing so hard at that point you won't really be paying attention. Please, drop whatever you're doing and go rent this.
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Summary: Trust Me, It's Great
Review: "Used Cars" may not have won Robert Zemeckis any oscars, but it did win him a job directing "Romancing the Stone" since Michael Douglas was apparently a HUGE fan of this film and it's easy to see why. The movie is not only funny, but extremely well made. Steve Martin once said Comedy is not Pretty, but Used Cars is an exception. The direction, photography, editing are seamless. Still holds up after 20 years (Where's the DVD???) and an early obvious sign of Zemeckis' vast talent.
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Summary: Sir. This Buick is you!
Review: Watching Used Cars is like watching a crazed loon trying to stuff a sqaure peg in a round hole...and suceeding. It is a tastless, vulgar, inane, unredeemable and nasty piece of heartless, cruel and unrenlentingly cyinical humour. That ofcourse is why I liked it. Nowadays we have the Farrelly brothers brand of crude humour, but their films are about basically good people getting themselves in disgusting situations (usually involving bodily fluids). Preceeding them by over a decade was Robert Zemeckis, who in Used Cars set out to make a comedy without a single sympathetic character. The only reason why we root for the protagonist is because he is more audaciously crooked then everyone else. Infact, the whole film looks in need of an oil change and a good paint job. The direction is clunky, the clothes atrocious and the atmosphere smoggy. But this only adds to the picture's lowlife charm. As Rudy Russo, Kurt Russel is the most blatantly dis-honest salesman this side of a Glengarry Glen Ross character. His sole ambition in life is to graduate to public service, to become a Senator. For that he needs 60,000 dollars to "buy the election" and he's about 10,000 short. Logic is cheerfully left behind, as Russo and his cronies hide their boss's death(Jack Warden) to prevent his spiteful more successful brother across the street from inheriting the lot(also played by Jack Warden). Now desperate for the money, they employ the most grotesque, deceptive, tastless and frequently illegal marketing techniques in existance. Weather stealing the live feed of a football game or the inturrupting the a presidnetial speech(a scene which had me in a fit of laughter) to air their R-rated ads, their cons are so insane they left me in disbelief. The film is so grounded is small town realism that the contrast with these impossible schemes has an almost surreal effect. Robert Zemeckis would go on to make more commercial films later. Some were wonderful, others not quite so succesful, but in all his later films(even the dark comedy Death Becomes Her) there is this annoying wholsomeness. Used Cars was his sophmore effort, and its so cheerfully unwholesome it cries out for our shocked attention, it is impposible to resist. It is a slight letdown that after the an hour the film abandons its inspired schemes to persue a silly plot thread involving 250 cars driven by highschool kids through the desert. But the sequence is so beserk, so out there that is becomes impressive, even admirable.
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Summary: A how to manual for used car dealers?
Review: Shot in Mesa Arizona. One of Kurt Russell's (Overboard ASIN: 6304286511) best. And one of Jack Warden's (Death on the Nile ASIN: 6302990114) best. Together with the help of a great supporting cast, including Toby (real name not known), have created the exact used car lot environment. Jack Warden plays brothers that are more believable than, Lindsay Lohan. Throw in Al Lewis as Judge Harrison and approximately a mile of cars, then you have a movie. So get out the popcorn and buckle your seat belt for this smashing vehicle.
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Summary: Classic car movie
Review: This movie was out just about the time that VCRs were becoming a hot item. I was checking it out of the video store for about the third time when a woman in line said ," My husband thinks that's the funniest movie ever made!" Almost twenty years later her husband could still be right. Still waiting for DVD.
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Summary: a comic classic!
Review: If you love caddy shack,the jerk,meatballs , Used Cars is a must. Kurt Russell at his best IMHO!
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Summary: This movie is hiliarious!
Review: This movie is incredibly funny! It's a movie that pulls no punches, and will hit you square onto your funny bone. Kurt Russell's best role, starring as Rudy Russo, a used car salesmen who's ambition is to run for congress. Rudy works for a guy named Luke Fuchs, who owns the used car lot. His brother, Roy Fuchs, owns another lot directly across the highway. There's one thing Rudy must do before going to the Capitol Building - he first must protect the used car lot he works at before Roy claims the property, which would ultimately be used as part of a new new highway, which would increase business for Roy's lot. Roy will stop at nothing, even murdering his own brother! The script is amazing, the plot is original, and you'll finally know the schemes a used car salesman will employ to get you to buy a total klunker. Toby the dog is a riot! The dog, alone, had me rolling on the floor. Jack Warden puts on a great, great dual-performance as the rival brothers. 'Lenny' and 'Squiggy' from "Laverne & Shirley" star as friends of Rudy's. Al Lewis, the beloved 'Grandpa' from "The Munsters", stars as a mean, tobacco chewing judge. If you are into great movies, don't rent this one... *BUY IT* as part of your video collection!
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Summary: Tops them all for laughs
Review: I had never even heard of this movie until one day I stumbled accross it on TV. The next day I logged onto good 'ole Amazon and bought it. Why? It provides the most belly laughs of any comedy I have ever seen in my life. Granted, some of the humour might not be to everyones taste (digging up a corpse so as to fake its death) but there are some hiarious moments. The "50 dollars never killed anyone" scene in my opinion is the funniest scene ever put on video. If you think about it, a film about warring used car dealers can't really fail, can it?
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Summary: A Salesman's Must
Review: If you've ever been a salesman, especially a "one-call-close" salesman (e.g. cars, copy machines, etc.), you've GOT to see this movie. I've sat through sales training seminars that preach some of the same "closing techniques" as used by Kurt Russell, only not done nearly as funny. One of my choices for Top-10 all time comedies.
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