The stage curtains open ...
Ed: "How much money do you make in a year?" John: "Oh, in a year. I would say anywhere from thirty to eleven thousand a year, Sir."
"Going Berserk" (1983) starring John Candy, Pat Hingle, Eugene Levy, and Ernie Hudson (in a bit role) is a highly forgettable film that aims high, but falls flat. When this movie came out I was about 14 years old, but it flew under my radar. I never even heard of it until years later, and when I finally decided to watch it, I was not impressed. I only needed to see it once to know that that was more than enough for me.
The story starts out with a "you wouldn't believe how I ended up here" type of beginning, and then we flashback to the story leading up to that point. John Candy plays the role of John Bourgignon who runs a limo service with his buddy, Chick (Joe Flaherty) in the big city. He is engaged to be married to a Senator's daughter, much to the chagrin of the Senator. Because of his connection with the Senator, a cult that the Senator is trying to expose, brainwashes John and attempts to have him assassinate the Senator on John's wedding day. Instead of turning John into a deadly killing machine however, the trigger they have put into his mind turns him into a bumbling fool instead, leading to some precarious situations.
The movie had a few laugh out loud moments, but they were very few and very far in between. Overall, "Going Berserk" was very adolescent, dumb, and crude. I honestly don't even think I would've enjoyed this very much even as a teenager. John Candy does a lot of physical comedy in this one, highlighted by the scene where he is handcuffed to Ernie Hudson's character, Muhammed, and while they are on opposite sides of a closed door, Muhammed has sex with his girlfriend. Yeah, let your imagination run wild with that one ... LOL.
After this movie was done, I just kinda yawned and said to myself ... "Oh boy, was that ever stupid". I am rating it at 3 stars out of 10. It is definitely one of the worst John Candy films I've ever seen. The characters were not fleshed out, the plot was pointless, and the gags were not that funny. Everything was staged to set up a joke that just didn't deliver. I suppose if you have some late night time to burn and you don't care what you watch, this movie will suffice.
Ed: "How much money do you make in a year?" John: "Oh, in a year. I would say anywhere from thirty to eleven thousand a year, Sir."
"Going Berserk" (1983) starring John Candy, Pat Hingle, Eugene Levy, and Ernie Hudson (in a bit role) is a highly forgettable film that aims high, but falls flat. When this movie came out I was about 14 years old, but it flew under my radar. I never even heard of it until years later, and when I finally decided to watch it, I was not impressed. I only needed to see it once to know that that was more than enough for me.
The story starts out with a "you wouldn't believe how I ended up here" type of beginning, and then we flashback to the story leading up to that point. John Candy plays the role of John Bourgignon who runs a limo service with his buddy, Chick (Joe Flaherty) in the big city. He is engaged to be married to a Senator's daughter, much to the chagrin of the Senator. Because of his connection with the Senator, a cult that the Senator is trying to expose, brainwashes John and attempts to have him assassinate the Senator on John's wedding day. Instead of turning John into a deadly killing machine however, the trigger they have put into his mind turns him into a bumbling fool instead, leading to some precarious situations.
The movie had a few laugh out loud moments, but they were very few and very far in between. Overall, "Going Berserk" was very adolescent, dumb, and crude. I honestly don't even think I would've enjoyed this very much even as a teenager. John Candy does a lot of physical comedy in this one, highlighted by the scene where he is handcuffed to Ernie Hudson's character, Muhammed, and while they are on opposite sides of a closed door, Muhammed has sex with his girlfriend. Yeah, let your imagination run wild with that one ... LOL.
After this movie was done, I just kinda yawned and said to myself ... "Oh boy, was that ever stupid". I am rating it at 3 stars out of 10. It is definitely one of the worst John Candy films I've ever seen. The characters were not fleshed out, the plot was pointless, and the gags were not that funny. Everything was staged to set up a joke that just didn't deliver. I suppose if you have some late night time to burn and you don't care what you watch, this movie will suffice.