In the 80s it seemed that we'd reached the golden age of set design. Think back on the Goonies, The Lost Boys, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Blues Brothers. It's great set design all the way down. Nothing but Trouble joins the ranks of films with fantastic set design, simultaneously proving that a movie can look good without being any good.
The movie itself has an interesting backstory, its genesis couched in a showing of Hellraiser attended by Dan Aykroyd in which he noted that the teens were laughing at the horror film the entire way through. The result was his decision to create a horror comedy starring himself, John Candy, Chevy Chase, and Demi Moore. And it isn't very good.
Chevy Chase, due to his very nature as a person, plays a great heel onscreen. This is a detriment to most films in which you're supposed to see him as a sympathetic character who doesn't need to be sent into the Bonestripper Machine. Thusly, the film doesn't get off to a good start and certainly doesn't get much better. The plot is flimsy, we don't care about the characters, and the whole film isn't for children and yet is neither gross enough nor crass enough for adult audiences.
Yet the film was also a lot of fun. John Candy is double cast as both the villiage cop and the local Judge's daughter. Dan Aykroyd wears grotesque old age prosthetics. Digital Underground makes an appearance, marking the first time Tupac would appear in a major motion picture. There are certainly lines and gags to laugh at. It's bad, and certainly not good, but I find it uniquely enjoyable. This too is what some would call "camp."
It's also a movie in which Demi Moore kisses Chevy Chase, something no one wants to see. Do with that information what you will.
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Look At Chrispy’s FACE the last few seconds here…. (gif by @tim-lucy )
I am so ready for THAT GUY - That selfish, mean-spirited, jealous, angry, stupid guy to show up and cause drama.
We know Chenford is gonna happen - they’ll fight as a unified, true-love, front against this sniveling twerp and come out better for it.
Bring it on Fakeford. Show us what you’ve got. (I really hope Chris goes off the deep end and is what brings Rosalind back into focus by season’s end)
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Nothing But Trouble (1991) KILL COUNT
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I have no idea what the fuck I just watched, but it was truly one of a kind. 8/10
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Judge Alvin Valkenheiser from "Nothing But Trouble".
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Demi Moore in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (1991)
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. . . I told him that I was engaged; and I felt when I told him so that my engagement was a sorrow to me. And it has been a sorrow from that day to this.
Anthony Trollope, from Phineas Finn
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