Misteraser Critics,are you kidding us

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

SnoopyStyle Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is an unscrupulous used car salesman of a rundown lot owned by Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden). Rudy wants to run for State Senate. Luke is willing to lend him the $10k needed as long he promises to help him keep his lot from his brother Roy (Jack Warden). Roy owns the lot across the street, and has tried buying off the mayor and sending in the Consumer Protection Agency. He even tries to kill Luke by sending in somebody to scare him to death. The scheme actually works and Rudy hides Luke's body with the help of Jeff (Gerrit Graham) and Jim (Frank McRae). They pretend that Luke is going to Florida. Rudy starts doing crazy schemes pirating the big football game broadcast, having strippers, and breaking into a presidential broadcast. Then Luke's estranged daughter Barbara (Deborah Harmon) shows up.This is the start of a great run by Robert Zemeckis. This is hilarious starting with the outrageous boob shot in the pirated commercial. Kurt Russell is doing great. The wacky schemes are mostly funny. It just needs an extra stupid side kick for some wild physical comedy like Belushi or Bill Murray or John Candy. The pairing of David Lander and Michael McKean comes close, but they're only in the movie when they pirate broadcasts.

MBunge Used Cars has a very strong first hour, full of laughs and a great window into a bit of the psyche and reality of pre-Ronald Reagan America. Unfortunately, it's dark and satirical heart softens in the second hour and the movie turns into something disturbingly like Smokey and The Bandit II. I'm not kidding about that. Co-writer/director Robert Zemeckis has a lot of fun with his smarmy, conniving and outrageous anti-heroes but when he tries to redeem them in the audience's eyes, his story loses most of its wit, bite and integrity. That really good first hour, along with appearances by Lenny and Squiggy and Grandpa Munster, make this thing worth watching. Once you see a woman break down in tears, however, it's mostly downhill from there.Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) is a devious used car salesman working on the lot owned by the kindly old Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden). There is no lie, trick or scam beneath Rudy when it comes to pawning junkers off on unsuspecting car buyers and if you think that makes him perfect for the world of politics, so does Rudy. He needs to raise another $10,000 to buy himself a state senate seat and is willing to do most anything for it. Across the street is the nicer, cleaner used car lot owned by Luke's twin brother Roy (Jack Warden). Roy is clearly the villain of this piece, those it's unclear exactly how he's any worse than the scheming, con-artist Rudy.Roy knows there's a freeway that's going to be built right through his lot, giving Luke's lot a spectacular location, and Roy is determined to get his hands on his brother's property. So he sends over one of his employees to scare Luke into a stroke. He's successful, but Rudy is determined to not let Roy win. So, with the aide of his superstitious fellow salesman (Gerrit Graham) and a narcoleptic mechanic (Frank McRae), Rudy hides Luke's body and embarks on a serious of crazy publicity stunts to drum up business. When Luke's long lost daughter (Deborah Harmon) returns and Rudy finds himself falling for her, all his plans to awry and the guy who'll do anything to scam a quick buck has to do something amazing to save the woman he loves.Used Cars has a lot of broad and crude comedy that's only different from modern raunch-coms by a lack of self-loathing and a neglect of bodily function humor. Set in a United States beaten down by years of economic struggles and in a daze from the social revolutions of the 60s grinding down to the cultural exhaustion of the 70s, the American Dream of Used Cars is about how everyone is corrupt and the only thing that separates the good guys from the bad is exactly how much you're willing to screw somebody else for your own benefit. That doesn't sound like a fountain of hilarity, but the desperate environment is what liberates the movie and allows it to find humor in otherwise contemptible acts and attitudes. It's like the gallows humor of a police station or a news room. Cops and reporters will make jokes that are funny in the context of the horrors they're exposed to, but are incredibly insensitive and mean when told in a different circumstance. Too few comedians understand that it's the context of offensive material that's funny, not the material itself.Kurt Russell, Jack Warden and Gerrit Graham are all great, and Graham takes full advantage of a supporting role that gives him several different moments to shine. That's another thing Hollywood seems to have lost the knack for; writing secondary parts that do more than just reflect the story back onto the leads. Deborah Harmon is okay, but she's mostly a reminder that any big budget production today would cast a much more attractive actress for her part.Now, since Sheriff Buford T. Justice would have stuck out like a sore thumb in the first half of Used Cars but fit seamlessly into the rest, I can't call this a great or even really good film. It's good and interesting enough, though, to recommend.

EvanHamilton I read the other reviews for "Used Cars", and found each to be positive and supporting this movie. Each user said that it was hilarious.Well, after I saw the feature, I was greatly disappointed, mainly in Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale for the profane and rather pointless script, and for Speilgerg for actually producing a film like this.--THE GOOD--• The film was funny at times. A few scenes are a bit memorable• The stunts were outstanding• The dog (Toby, played by "Peanuts") is excellent and is the best member of the --THE BAD--• The dog (Toby, played by "Peanuts") is excellent and is the best member of the cast (A dog can do better than Kurt Russell? Watch this film)• EXTREMELY profane movie, with unnecessary nudity and swearing• The film was not edifying in any way• It is an embarrassment to the country of the United StatesI actually don't recommend this movie, unless you really want to see it. It is intended to be a comedy, but will really get only a few laughs out of you. There are two or three scenes that are really funny, but that's it. The movie is 1 hr and 54 minutes long (basically 2 hours), and each funny scene lasts only a minute.Don't let the other reviews fool you, because they already fooled me. The authors of those reviews are most likely great fans who saw the film when it first came out. Well, now, the movie isn't that great. It really is about a 5/10, highest 6.5/10. Not a movie for kids. Not a movie for most people.

gwcohn-2 The movie is a screamer. It has all kinds of inside jokes but the one that caught my eye was when "Lenny & Squiggy" uplink the commercials to the satellite.During the early '80's, many cities had HBO transmitted via microwave to the subscribers home. It didn't take long for the techno-pirates to figure out how to build a pirate antenna. The antenna that L&S was using as an uplink was one of these pirate antennas! A lot of the scenes for the movie were filmed at a used car lot in Mesa AZ.I saw this at a local drive-in but had to tape it when it came on HBO. I now have the DVD as the commentary alone is worth the price.