The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
R | 11 July 1990 (USA)
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To the Los Angeles elite, Ford Fairlane is known as "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll Detective." This loudmouthed ladies' man serves an exclusive rock star clientele, who depend on his keen eye and smug discretion. So when a heavy-metal musician dies mid-concert, Fairlane is on the case before the lights come up. But things turn shocking when radio personality Johnny Crunch hires Fairlane to find a missing groupie mere hours before he is electrocuted live on air.

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Maidexpl

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

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Invaderbank

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Abbigail Bush

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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Geraldine

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

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backus1611-1

If you ever needed to see whether to put a person in a position of power or not, this is the perfect movie to make them watch. If they like it, definitely no higher than a janitor. If they rightly see it as pretty stupid, then you can trust them with an important job. Just horribly bad. What a stupid story. This has not held up well. This detective is so smart, yet this moron can't figure out that after the house blows up, car blows up, do you think maybe they'll go after his office? No, lets just play around like a moron. Would be nice to have some jokes there, or at least jokes that someone smarter than a middle-schooler might laugh at. In fact, the only funny things were said by everyone but Ford Farlaine (Ed O'Neil's singing). He certainly has a dick fetish, or just isn't smart enough to make better jokes. Do you really think the joke where the guy falls through the tour bus is at all funny? So, if you like it, you're a janitor. Of course, now we'll get fans of it pretending to be brain surgeons etc. Well, I'm the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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rasseng

This film is the perfect comedy/action film of its era! This film is absolutely perfect in every way! Andrew dice Clay is perfect in the part. The writing is excellent. The acting is good. The comic timing is impeccable. Everything works! The music is fantastic. Lauren holly is gorgeous! Clay is in his prime, and at his peak. Everything about this film is perfect! Wayne Newton as the bad guy, is great. Ed O'Neal is great. People want to hate on Clay, but he was the most popular comedian at the time! He literally was a rock star of comedy! I highly recommend this movie! It is like the perfect snapshot of the late 80's/early 90's.

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Mike Drakulich

Alright. I know the acting isn't 5 star quality, but really, NOT EVERY FREAKING movie is meant to be Gone With the Wind.Sometimes you have to just have some fun, enjoy a night of laughter, and the enjoy the movie for what it is: Nutty! I'm beyond tired of the PC world we live in today. It's OK to laugh sometimes.I love the dialog in the movie, as well as the one-liners made by Dice. There's plenty of star quality in the movie with Priscilla Pressley, Ed O'Neil, Wayne Newton, Robert Englund, and Lauren Holly, so lets stop acting like the movie was filled with off the street actors. They all knew they were in a fun movie together, and all had fun being in it.So, if you are someone who likes to laugh at silly jokes, one liners, and enjoy crude humor, then this is a movie for you.

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jeremy3

I despise political correctness so much that even though I would normally give this movie a 6, it is a 10. What did Dice do that was so offensive? He told the truth, and maybe did it with a little bit of vulgarity. Big deal. Lenny Bruce did it, and people love him for it. But by the early 90s, a bunch of frauds took over this country and started telling people how to think and act. Diceman stood in their way. Ford Fairlane shows the way things really are - a man has to be tough and have a front to face all the ridiculous things in life. Dice did this with honesty. He showed a regular guy, who didn't sellout to phony Hollywood and knew exactly how to make fun of the music industry at the time. Hollywood is trying to put up a girlish sounding kid, an obvious satire of Michael Bolton, and abandoning the true fire that was rock and roll. This movie had a connection to about the only good thing about this arrogant and cold era called the 90s. There was Priscilla Presley, the wife of the man who saved America from the doldrums during the 50s, and the heroine in Naked Gun. There is Ed O'Neill, who played Al Bundy, the most real character on television during the 90s. Let's face it, Married With Children was the one show of the 90s that dared showed regular people who couldn't always afford to stock their refrigerator. This movie is filled with a lot of satire and good humor. The main reason why people hate Andrew Dice Clay is they don't get what he is really about. They think he is just offensive, male chauvinistic, and all this other nonsense. But what they don't understand is that Dice was showing that a man has put on a big act in order to get anything done in life. The people who are politically correct are shallow, and they want everything handed to them in life. They can't deal with pain and with things that aren't always so pretty. So, if you think this movie is offensive, try real life. Go to Kenya, Sudan, or so many other places around the world, and see if this movie is disturbing compared to the reality for most people in the world. You might even start to see the point of a movie like this, and laugh about it.

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