Steinesongo
Too many fans seem to be blown away
StunnaKrypto
Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
godfreygordon
I do not know what is supposed to be entertaining about this garbage. Maybe in 1989 a movie farce like this was risqué , sexy and funny. It just goes to show how movies have moved on. There are pretty girls aplenty in nice swimwear and the usual crowd of eighties guys who look like porn stars. One of the main characters was obnoxious and the other boring. Yes, its funny pretending a corpse is alive, but not as the one and only joke all the way through the movie. Morons will howl at the Keystone Cops style capers, but they are not subtle or sophisticated. The movie was directed and edited well and the camera-work divine, but what a predictable yawn.
kencpotter
Although I've always enjoyed slapstick (Ernest, Naked Gun, Monty Python, etc.), I absolutely hated this movie. Furthermore, I noticed that my more intelligent friends also hated it. And it has nothing to do with it being "dark", or a "black comedy", as others have described it. When this movie came out, I clearly remember that it was hugely popular among those without the capacity for sublime humor. If you liked Looney Tunes as a kid, then you will probably hate Weekend at Bernie's. If you preferred Scooby Doo or Speed Racer, then you'll probably love this movie. If you preferred "Friends" over Seinfeld, then you will definitely love "Weekend at Bernie's"
gwnightscream
Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Catherine Mary Stewart and Don Calfa star in this 1989 comedy. Richard Parker (Silverman) and Larry Wilson (McCarthy) are 2 New York guys who discover false policies written for the insurance company they work for. They inform their boss, Bernie Lomax (Kiser) and he rewards them by inviting them to his island beach house for Labor Day weekend. It turns out Bernie is the one stealing from the company and decides to have them killed. Bernie is killed instead before Richard and Larry arrive. They soon discover that Bernie is dead, but try making him look alive where he's still the life of the party. Stewart (The Last Starfighter) plays Gwen, Richard's co-worker & love interest, Calfa (Return of the Living Dead) plays Paulie, a mob thug sent to kill Bernie and the film's director, Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) also makes an appearance as Richard's father. This is a good 80's comedy with a good cast & score I recommend.
Neil Welch
Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) discover a scam and report it to their boss Bernie (Terry Kiser), who invites them to his beach house for the weekend as a reward. Bernie actually plans to have them killed (he is the one who is doing the scamming), but when he dies at the start of the weekend, chancer Larry persuades worrier Richard that, with a little bit of effort, the whole weekend remains to be enjoyed - no-one has to know Bernie died just yet, right? Especially if he gets seen out and about...This daft comedy is lifted out of the ordinary by one thing, and that is Terry Kiser's extraordinary performance as Bernie. Not while he's alive, mind you, but after he's dead. Kiser's remarkably physical performance as Bernie's corpse is extremely funny and raises this film to the level of minor classic.
