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

Absolutely amazing

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Some dumb movies work. And the 80's had a lot of them. Movies like A Fine Mess with Ted Danson and Howie Mandel are harmless slapstick fun. Real men is a real mess. Belushi is all wrong, plays it wrong and is annoying. He does a lot of cocked eye brow acting, smirking, playing the cocky cool flawless never can miss CIA agent. He brings no real humor to the roll. Just like he's delivering the same line over and over. Michael Keaton could have played this clumbsy/cool and pulled it off with humor and actually make the character likable. Ritter is playing the predictable wimp turned tough guy. Gee, never saw that coming. His post 3's Company career is best when he's playing more dramatic type roles like Slingblade or satire like Montana. He has to be too restrained for his role in Real Men because to play this role for the most laughs would be to venture too far into Jack Tripper territory. What's left is a hollow shell of a comedy.

CIA Agent Pillbox (John Ritter) is killed before he is scheduled to meet space aliens. Nick Pirandello (James Belushi) is a hard-charging super-agent. He is assigned to recruit doppleganger mild-mannered family man Bob Wilson (John Ritter) for the meeting. It's to save the planet from a chemical released by the military in exchange for a glass of water. The Russians are trying to stop them. Others in their agency want a Big Gun which could destroy a planet to use against the Russians.This is a strange little attempt at a spy action spoof. It doesn't really start out that way although Belushi as a super-agent could be taken that way. The strange concepts keep building up. It's not terribly funny but it is weirdly interesting. It does have Ritter and Belushi. Dennis Feldman doesn't seem to be that funny in his output. He's certainly not known as a director. This strange idea could work especially with these two comedic actors if the script is much funnier.

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.

Earlier in the movie Bob asks Nick why the glass has to be a special presidential glass and Nick tells him that it's for publicity. When the spacemen travel around with it, America will get publicity. But at the end of the movie after the spaceman drinks the water, he gives Bob the glass back. Not much publicity will happen if the YUFO'S don't have the glass. I figured this was the biggest 'goof' because it was a mess-up in the all-around plot of the movie.One of my favorite flicks by the way. Not known NEARLY as widely as it deserves to be. John Ritter's acting is amazing. Belushi is at his best. Also I find it brilliant that they had Dyanne Thorne from the Isla movies play Belushi's sex-changed, war-veteran dad. So funny.My favorite line is probably after the Russian negotiator calls Bob a "Poor Slovnichski" (along those lines) when Nick asks her what kind of position to expect in the KGB if he gives up the map and the negotiator replies; "Colonel." then Bob butts in "No way! Nuh-uh. That's a deal-breaker! No. Forget it. The deal is off. Take a WALK-ski! I bust a gut every time.