| Nothing But Trouble | 
 enlarge | Actors: Danielle Aykroyd, P.h. Aykroyd, Peter Aykroyd, Daniel Baldwin, Raymond J. Barry
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 9875
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 94
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: WARD16376D
ISBN: 6305162018
UPC: 085391637622
EAN: 9786305162018
ASIN: 6305162018
Theatrical Release Date: February 15, 1991
Release Date: November 10, 1998
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Product Description
A pair of highway travellers are taken prisoner by an eerie small town judge with his own brand of justice. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Starring: John Candy Demi Moore Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Dan Ackroyd
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 NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (WARNER BROS./1991) October 30, 2008
REVIEW: As the old cliche goes: comedy is a very subjective art form. What some people find hilarious to the point of hysterics, others may see as scraping the bottom barrel of stupidity. But if comedy itself is the hardest medium to master then BLACK comedy (that is: comedy which finds humor in the most distasteful of subject matter) is nearly impossible to bring across on screen or in front of a live audience unless you have an innate genius for such ribald material (a la Alfred Hitchcock or Mel Brooks). Case in point here: Dan Aykroyd's deliberately whacked-out, over-the-top, disgusting, cornball of a movie "NOTHING BUT TROUBLE". In it he plays a 106-year-old Justice Of The Peace named Alvin Valkenheiser who presides over a carnival-house court, and who is quick to pronounce a death sentence for the most mundane of traffic violations. His latest "capture" is big-time stock report publisher Chris Thorne (Chase) who is helping a lady in distress (Moore) by driving her to Las Vegas in order to settle some personal business there. Also on board are two annoying South American "Brazillionares" who impose themselves upon Chase and Moore when they overhear their travel plans. On their way the two of them suggest they have a picnic: Moore agrees, Chase grumbles, and soon the foursome are zooming through Valkenvania where they get pulled over by patrolman John Candy. But their nightmare has only begun as they witness first-hand the outlandish antics of Justice Valkenheiser, are treated to a memorably bizarre dinner, and are imprisoned for the night where they sneak out and discover a whole lot more about Valkenvania then they really wish they had ever known. All of this sounds fairly interesting: but with the exception of Candy (in a dual role as the patrolman and the mute strongman...er...strongwoman Eldona), and the painstaking production design there really isn't much here to get excited about. For one thing: it just isn't very funny. And nothing is more painful and depressing than watching a comedy that isn't funny. Especially one that resorts to such desperate measures as making Aykroyd wear a prosthetic nose that looks like a certain part of the male anatomy, or having him and actor John Deveikis dress up in a couple of rubber suits in order to portray two overgrown monster babies. This is as bad as movie making gets. HARSH LANGUAGE: about 32 words. VIOLENCE: about 10 scenes of moderate-to-gross violence. NUDITY/SEXUAL REFERENCES: about 3 (as well as the aforementioned prosthetic "nose" of Justice Valkenheiser). DRUG REFERENCES: some drinking, and a scene where Candy pulls over a carload of dope dealers sampling their own goods.
THE MORAL COMPASS: As noted above "NOTHING BUT TROUBLE" is nothing but a mess of a movie. It has very few laughs, is very dark and visually unpleasant to watch, and has several bits of harsh language and gore. But what really bothers me is that Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, and John Candy are such gifted comedians that it's hard to believe they couldn't come up with one decent joke throughout the whole picture. For goodness sakes: I chuckled more at "ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE" than this bunch of nonsense. But because of some (totally unnecessary) profanity, violence, sexual references, and subject matter: the film definately warrants a strong CAUTIONARY rating. But unless you want to waste an hour-and-a-half of your life (or are a fan of the late John Candy): then why bother seeing this in the first place?
RAZZIE AWARD WINS: Worst Supporting Actor (Dan Aykroyd)
RAZZIE AWARD NOMINATIONS: Worst Actress (Moore), Worst Supporting actress (Candy - in drag), Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, and Worst Picture.
Not funny September 6, 2008
Not funny, uninterestingly perverse in a non-sexual way; normally interesting actors trapped in a truly awful movie.
Nothing. May 8, 2008
The title should have been simply, "Nothing" I've seen some real stinkers over the years, but this film is in its own league. The film's only possible saving grace might be in using it in one of those old, "This is your brain on drugs." TV ads.
 Whackier Than I Remember May 3, 2008
This was a film that I loved as a child. Along with "Big", "The Burbs", "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and a half a dozen others, if this film was on TV, I would stop everything and see it to its end. Generally, as I get older, I rarely watch a film more than 1 or 2 times. But these films of my childhood I have seen at least a dozen times. After not seeing this movie for at least eight years or so, I was surprised to see how much I remembered and even more surprised to see how much I just didn't "get" as a child.
The obvious that I never realized as a child: the judge's [...]-shaped nose, the hot dog the judge sloppily ate, Chevy Chase's sweet talking to Demi Moore, Tupac Shakur's cameo...etc.
The not-so-obvious was how totally messed up, sociopathic, criminally insane, whacked out of their skulls, the judge's family was. Wow, was this one freaky movie, no wonder I liked it so much as a kid.
Surely, as I watched it with a slightly maturer mind, I did not feel it was as exciting as I used to think it was. In fact, I am pretty sure that anyone who has not yet scene this movie and sees it today, will most probably think that this is a horrible film. However for those whom this film remains a part of their childhood, for [...] new or a [...] used on Amazon, I think its a good deal.
Oh and by the way, the ending to this film really stinks.
For film junkies, Peter Aykroyd, Dan Aykroyd's younger brother, wrote the story for this film. Dan Aykroyd wrote the screenplay.
Maybe I am the only one, but I would like some new films with Chevy Chase in them. New Dan Aykroyd films would be nice too.
A weird movie, but sometimes weird is good February 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I notice that a lot of people either love or despise this film. Personally, I really liked it. The plot was fun, the scenary was great and many of the actors in it are people I hadn't seen in a movie in years. Ackroyd as a warped machanical genius set up in his own little Shire, hidden somewhere in the backwoods of New Jersey? Yeah, it doesn't make much sense but it does make for a few good laughs.
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