This film was good for the first couple of minutes, and Chevy Chase did do a nice job with his consistent banter during the car chases, and that was about it.
Mostly, this was a very bad film. It is billed as a humorous flick, but it ends up mostly disturbing and overall, vicious. It should have been called a horror film with comedy parts put in.
It's inconsistency is due to the few parts of the film that simply do not fit. The Judge's sense of humor at first makes the audience believe that he is simply a crazy old man. The next scenes involving him sentencing a joyriding carful of druggies to be executed by having their flesh stripped off their bones makes for a sickening display. While you do not see much except bloody bones flying out of the machine, it is the oddly perverse carnival like setting of the torture device that makes most viewers cringe.
It does not fit. Neither do the Judge's two deformed grandsons, who look like grossly obese versions of tweedle dee and tweedle dumb. No explaination is given for their condition.
Think of it as a very sick "Tales From The Crypt" that happens to lack that shows charismatic crypt keeper. (Picking up my sarcasm?)
Forget this, even Rocky Horror and Freaked fans won't like it...
Mostly, this was a very bad film. It is billed as a humorous flick, but it ends up mostly disturbing and overall, vicious. It should have been called a horror film with comedy parts put in.
It's inconsistency is due to the few parts of the film that simply do not fit. The Judge's sense of humor at first makes the audience believe that he is simply a crazy old man. The next scenes involving him sentencing a joyriding carful of druggies to be executed by having their flesh stripped off their bones makes for a sickening display. While you do not see much except bloody bones flying out of the machine, it is the oddly perverse carnival like setting of the torture device that makes most viewers cringe.
It does not fit. Neither do the Judge's two deformed grandsons, who look like grossly obese versions of tweedle dee and tweedle dumb. No explaination is given for their condition.
Think of it as a very sick "Tales From The Crypt" that happens to lack that shows charismatic crypt keeper. (Picking up my sarcasm?)
Forget this, even Rocky Horror and Freaked fans won't like it...
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