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© DSFC 		USED CARS
STILL RUNS GREAT!
by pat

I remember this movie from way back, but it had been a while since I had seen it in its entirety. It's been long enough since I'd seen it that at the age, I was just glad to be watching a movie that showed boobs, even though I wasn't quite sure what to do with them. Now, of course, I am much more mature and wise in the ways of the world, and know if you see a pair of boobs you politely tip the lady a dollar. I also know what the gag is about used car salesmen, besides the ridiculous suits, and what dark humor is, and why a well trained dog need not stoop to getting "Air Bud" level laughs with a good writer.

This is why, now more than ever, I love this movie. I dug it as a kid, but watching it the other day, my running though between bursts of laughter (I stop thinking when I laugh, which is why I fail miserably in improvisational comedy or sex) was "Oh, I get that now!" As an example, one toss-away gag was that the lead takes a date to dinner at the Airport Lanes. Date, airport, bowling alley. This guy is smooth. The movie rides through the bigger gags on the backs of smaller bits like this, pulling humor from several places at once, working on so many levels.

It's no surprise, really. It's an early film from Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, who amongst other things gave us the "Back to the Future" trilogy. They are craftsmen. They know how to construct a story from beginning to end, hit all the key beats, then spend their time on the fun bits. As a director, Zemeckis is Zemeckis, and if you need to know what that means, look him up. It should be clear pretty quick. Add in young-at-the-time talents like Kurt Russell, Michael McKean (of "Spinal Tap" or Lenny fame), David Landers (Squiggy to the masses), lesser known bit players Gerrit Graham, Frank McRae, and Joe Flaherty (Count Floyd ring a bell?), and underrated-comedy perennial Jack Warden in a double role. That's double your Jack Warden, which should more than satisfy any appetite for tracking down old reruns of "Crazy Like a Fox," a fruitless venture, by the way. Nobody, I mean NOBODY taped it, and yet people sell bootlegs of the friggin' "Popples"! Yeesh.

Russell, as the lead, gives exactly the kind of likeable performance that makes my head tilt, my eyebrow raise, and my brain to just tell me to let it go for sanity's sake when somebody says they don't like Kurt Russell. If you are one of those people, do a triple feature of "The Thing," "Used Cars," then "Big Trouble in Little China." If you still don't see the appeal, there is no hope for you. The rest of the cast has the timing, slapstick, and heart to their antics to keep you from questioning the absolutely ridiculous (and pretty unscrupulous) things they do, allowing for the kind of out-there comedy that Hollywood seems incapable of making anymore. This one may be a little rusty, and you might have seen a few of the parts lifted into newer models here and there, but this baby's an original, and it was built to last.
I like my Kurt Russell jokes. You don't have to. Read a book.
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