CineMikey

Please do not believe the previous comment. It is clearly a studio plant. This film is just plain awful. I went to the movie because I was able to see it for free, since I had friends who worked on it. They warned me that it "wasn't great." Well, they grossly understated it. I find it hard to believe that any studio would release this junk. Maybe the 12-14 year old crowd will like it, and keep it alive on video, but the principals on this should never be allowed to make another movie, except for Scott Rosenberg, who was clearly brought in to save a sinking ship. If you want a better example of his work, rent "Beautiful Girls."

Hey, it is no crime to make a bad movie, it happens. But what ticks me off is when someone makes Alpo and passes it off on prime rib. There are some scenes with the Roo that are funny, but you can wait for video/DVD to view those.

Bob Evans starts off the movie by saying there are three sides to every story "My Side, Your Side, and The Truth" and how accurate he is.

Granted, a good deal of this movie is Evans' self-flattering version of his rise and fall in Hollywood, but damn, it's entertaining. He is a fantastic raconteur, and five minutes into the movie, it didn't matter to me whether he was lying or telling the truth.

He touches on some landmark films in his career, like Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Bonnie and Clyde, and of course, The Godfather.

Most of the film uses stills, but they do so in a unique way, that never takes you out of the flow of the story. Once you walk out of the theatre, you'll run right out and buy the book on tape (Evans narrates it himself, and it is what is excepted for the film)

Pretty good execution of a usually dry format (documentary)

...in the sense that people will continue to quote this movie until the end of time.

This is the kind of role Chevy Chase should have built his career on, and for whatever reason didn't. I am anxious to see the upcoming prequel with Jason Lee as well.

Okay, so the story and characters will never be mistaken for Billy Wilder, but this has got to place in the top ten comedies of the 80s at very least.

In addition to Chase, Joe Don Baker, Tim Matheson, and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, some great supporting performances by George Wendt, Geena Davis, M. Emmet Walsh (as always), Richard Libertini, Larry Flash Jenkins (Wardell Stone from White Shadow fame) as well as both Tony Luonfo and James Avery, as police thugs assigned to rough "Fletch" up.

Hollywood needs to make more movies like this, which good characters, a compelling plot, and decent action, without taking itself all that seriously.

Sorry, call me what you will. I love it.

"I was going to buy this place until I found out Hopalong Cassidy killed himself here... Bow and arrow, very weird." Gotta luv it.