Very Cool!!!

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Pretty Good

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Another Police Academy clone type film, again this one a bag of laughs. A group of different aged dudes, misfits, who've created traffic chaos on our roads, are subjected to traffic school, led by troublemaker Murray, priceless. Some of these dudes, in real life, if creating these offenses, wouldn't end up doing this refresher course, much to the dislike of their hard ass mentor, a great James Keach, Stacey's brother, where him and Murray, go head to head, or one would say in one circumstance, cheek to cheek. Most of the cheek to this one, comes from Murray, a comedy revelation here. All of the actors, bring quite good performances to comedy of this calibre. Murray's minor crime, was while driving his ute, carrying fertilizer, an apple he was chewing on, fell out of his hand, while going over a bump. The cycle cop who pulls him over, suspects the fertilizer of being a white drug substance. When he tastes a dab of it, he wish to hell he didn't, where this circumstance earns Keach a one liner of the word S..t. MV is another film of laughs where Murray and his peers go all out to expose Keach, the worst of enemies and his girl cop, plus a female judge, Kellerman, he's also doing. The kissing scene in the gravity chamber with Murray and Tilly, (who disappeared off our screens after this flick, then came back in the late nineties, in a major f...in' way) is so cool, even their removed clothes get in on the act. The last scene of the film is a rib tickler, if ever I saw one, proving that some people don't belong on the road, but this movie deserves it's time of viewing.

"Moving Violations" came from the same group of producers that brought us such '80s mega-hit comedies as "Police Academy" and "Bachelor Party," though for one reason or another "M.V." didn't achieve the same level of box office success and has been mostly forgotten today. I loved it as a teenager, though. I must've seen this one at least a dozen times on HBO back in the mid-'80s and cracked up every time. I hadn't seen it in a good 20 years at least but when it suddenly turned up on Fox Movie Channel a couple of weeks ago I felt I had to check it out and see how well (or not) it had aged. Surprisingly enough, I still got a decent amount of chuckles from the film. I guess it still appeals to my inner 14 year old. For those who've never seen it, "Moving Violations" is a pretty standard "slobs vs. the snobs" story, with the "slobs" being a group of terrible drivers sentenced to traffic school and "the snobs" being the tight-assed traffic cops in charge of the class and a crooked judge who has her own designs for the impounded vehicles belonging to the students. The cast is made up of an impressive group including John Murray (youngest brother of Bill Murray, in his first and perhaps only leading role), Jennifer Tilly, Fred Willard, the late Wendy Jo Sperber, Brian Backer (of "Fast Times"), James Keach (brother of Stacy Keach and current husband of Jane Seymour) and Sally Kellerman. We even get a cameo by the legendary Clara Peller (a.k.a. the "Where's The Beef?" lady from the then-current Wendy's commercials). How can you NOT want to watch this? John Murray's "Dana" is the ringleader of the wrongfully-sentenced traffic schoolers and he mugs for all he's worth and gets all the best lines as he and his fellow misfits fight back against Keach's Cop From Hell. When these two match wits it's like watching Bugs Bunny (Murray) vs. Elmer Fudd (Keach). OK, so maybe this isn't a great film, but it is a wonderfully silly one. You gotta love a movie that features a puppet-theatre-on-wheels crashing into a funeral home (sending a casket sailing out the window and directly into its grave), a hypochondriac Wendy Jo chugging a bottle of cooking oil, plugging her orifices with Vaseline and going for a jog, and the sight of Sally Kellerman running down the street in bondage gear (meow!). Oh, and this movie has the single best line of dialogue ever in Hollywood history, when Fred Willard tells a confused Sperber, "We even have some celebrity clients... why, just last week I completely reamed out Roger Moore. He was totally satisfied, in fact he's coming back next week for a full rear-end job." I would rather sit through "Moving Violations" again than any of the "Police Academy" sequels, and I wonder why John Murray never starred in another movie, as he was hilarious throughout this one and seemed to be heading in the same direction as his brother Bill. Perhaps this wasn't the right "vehicle" (pun not intended) for him? Either way, "Moving Violations" is an unjustly forgotten slice of goofball '80s comedy. They really don't make'em like this anymore.

i should have known what i was getting myself into as soon as i realized some of the same people behind Police Academy,were responsible for this thing.but,i thought i'd give it a shot.turns out,all copies of this movie should be shot into outer space,where it can do no harm,at least to us earthlings.i guess if i was 12.this movie might be funny,but i doubt it.the movie(and i use this term loosely)is basically about a bunch of odd characters who get sentenced to traffic school in order to get their licenses back.this movie is really bad,alright,but,believe it or not,there are much worse movies,which should also join this thing on its outer space voyage.it is awful, but there are varying degrees of awful.on the awful meter this thing ranks somewhere almost near the middle.i think my cactus liked it.i'm sure i heard it laugh a few times.as for my fellow human beings,however, if you are looking for a comedy-keep looking. a very weak 1/10

This is much better than Police Academy...I find it a LOT funnier. Now my sister wathed this over and over and over again, got me sick of it however it IS a very FUNNY film. The characters are completely unforgettable. Dana Cannon, a wise, smart cool guy. Loretta an annoying blind old lady. Other characters include: a hypochondriac, a puppeteer, a crazy girl, a rocket scientist and much more. THese characters combined make one funny film. And lets not forget this awesome police force I wish I had. The jokes are still funny today, it is something anyone with a fairly good sense of humor can laugh at. DOn't expect a stong storyline, or message or anything like that...basic mindless fun. Get some popcorn and enjoy!