Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs.
John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper.
The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts, and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.....
The film has no real story or steady narrative, just a series of sketches with Ritter being goofy and Belushi acting tough. At the beginning of the third act, they trade places and the sketches commence again.
It shouldn't work, it really shouldn't, but you cannot help but like this movie thanks to the two leads. You would think with a movie like this, Belushi would be ranting and raving at Ritter throughout the movie, but in fact, he takes his bosses orders and is quite nice to him all the way through the movie, albeit with a sarcastic tone.
Ritter is the everyman who is scared of his own shadow and doesn't like confrontation. Let's just say,when he gets the Micheal Jackson jacket from thin air (you will know what i'm talking about), he grows a pair and starts to stand up for himself.
It is one of the most random movies i've seen for many reasons...
Transvestite dads, pretending your hand is a gun, the whole alien sub-plot, flying pens, S&M freaks, Jackets appearing from nowhere, winking milkman.
Nothing really makes any sense in the film, characters are random and double crosses turn into something else.
Just enjoy the banter of the two leads, and you will find a very funny buddy movie.
John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper.
The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts, and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.....
The film has no real story or steady narrative, just a series of sketches with Ritter being goofy and Belushi acting tough. At the beginning of the third act, they trade places and the sketches commence again.
It shouldn't work, it really shouldn't, but you cannot help but like this movie thanks to the two leads. You would think with a movie like this, Belushi would be ranting and raving at Ritter throughout the movie, but in fact, he takes his bosses orders and is quite nice to him all the way through the movie, albeit with a sarcastic tone.
Ritter is the everyman who is scared of his own shadow and doesn't like confrontation. Let's just say,when he gets the Micheal Jackson jacket from thin air (you will know what i'm talking about), he grows a pair and starts to stand up for himself.
It is one of the most random movies i've seen for many reasons...
Transvestite dads, pretending your hand is a gun, the whole alien sub-plot, flying pens, S&M freaks, Jackets appearing from nowhere, winking milkman.
Nothing really makes any sense in the film, characters are random and double crosses turn into something else.
Just enjoy the banter of the two leads, and you will find a very funny buddy movie.