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Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) is known as the Rock n' Roll Detective. He's a hard-smoking, womanizing, Hollywood private eye who is well connected in the music scene. Jazz (Lauren Holly) is his loyal assistant. Everybody pays him in gifts. Lead singer Bobby Black and his band is supposed to be the new sensation. He ODs on stage during a performance. His school friend obnoxious shock-jock Johnny Crunch hires him to find his daughter-sister-daughter Zuzu Petals. Crunch is quickly killed. Investigating cop Lt. Amos (Ed O'Neill) has an old grudge against him. The Kid hires him to find his dad. Colleen Sutton hires him to find her sister Zuzu Petals. Zuzu turns out to be a groupie to Bobby Black. There's a crazed hit-man (Robert Englund) and record executive Julian Grendel (Wayne Newton).It's crass, it's loud, and it's irreverent. I can certainly see many being offended by Andrew Dice Clay's crude character. For me, it's funny. It's basically an alternate world where Andrew Dice Clay's alter-ego exists. He's actually funnier when he's being a little stupid. There're some fun back-and-forth with Zuzu. For people not easily offended, this is good crass irreverent fun.

Favorite Movie Quote: "I'm so terrific, I even have my own toll-free number - 1-800-PERFECT" In his heyday Andrew Dice Clay may have been the only comic to ever sell-out Madison Square Gardens 2 nights in a row, but in his first starring vehicle, as Ford Fairlane, he just barely managed to squeak by with a 5-star rating from yours truly here.To be fair, I'm not particularly fond of the Andrew Dice Clay persona and on top of that the script for this film (which was clearly intended to be a showcase of snappy one-liners) was way too clumsy and crude to be fully appreciated by someone who hadn't already blindly sworn a solemn oath of allegiance and loyalty to this much-beloved comic.With something here to literally offend everyone, the leather-clad Clay swaggers and sneers and ultimately becomes the world's hippest detective, personified in the character of Ford Fairlane, who, for all of his apparent macho-man bragging, avoided real sexual encounters at all costs.As our story unfolds, Ford Fairlane soon finds himself (in between trading insults) hip-deep in the case-of-a-lifetime, where (during the course of this action-packed investigation) you can be sure that the women get slugged as often as the guys.While performing for a wild, cheering crowd at another sold-out rock concert, Bobby Black, the highly-regarded lead vocalist of the heavy metal band The Black Plague, suddenly collapses on stage and dies shortly into one of his most popular songs.Working closely with his loyal assistant, Jazz, Fairlane must now wade through a bizarre line-up of suspects, victims, and beautiful babes in order to uncover the true identity of Bobby Black's killer.As an intended feature highlight - To prove that he has even more talent in his baby finger than the rest of us do in our entire bodies - Andrew Dice Clay gets his ultimate moment of glory when he pushes a spineless, no-talent rocker out of the way in a recording studio, grabs up the microphone and shows us all just how a "real" rock'n'roller should sound.Believe me, it's a monumentally pathetic demonstration as Clay proves quite clearly to us all just how little talent he really had.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people, who fancy themselves critics, meander off into the political and try to use theatrical jargon to disguise what it is they really dislike about a movie. If you go to a movie which is a vehicle for Andrew Dice Clay who in my estimation is one of the greatest comic minds in history, (and he has the records to prove it, being the only comedian to sell out Madison Square Gardens 2 nights consecutively) how can his brand of humor be used as legitimate criticism in a movie which promotes his brand of comedy to the hilt? It's moronic, if you don't like his shtick, you won't like the movie..end of story. Why did you go see it? and why do you write sprawling reviews ...when you could sum it up in a sentence. I hate Dice's humor so naturally I hated this movie. That much said this movie was "The goods" and would have been one of the top 20 box office earners of 1990 had 20th century fox not caved to political pressure and yanked it after only 3 weeks. 12 million opening week? flop me thinks not. The cinemephotography is some of the best work since michael chapman's work in the Lost Boys. The cast are all wonderful in their cartoon roles, With Dice in the lead and Wayne Newton as the villain steeling the show. The movie is hilarious. But to prove that I am not completely biased as a dice fan, there where some minor elelments that bugged me. The editing towards the middle of the movie seemed to get sloppy, especially during the scenens in which biker hit men descend upon the sorority house. And there is a scene in which ford fairlane is being inducted as an honorary member, this is silly and does not jel with his macho stick. Also Morris Dey in a supporting role, gave a dreadful performance, which is sad because he can act, as anyone who has seen Purple Rain knows. Aside from these minor annoyances, the adventures of ford fairlane delivers all it promised, and should have become a franchise film, had 20th century fox maintained more artistic integrity in the face of controversy, not to mention business savvy as it was still making money when they pulled it despite al the undserved negative publicity. One of the best comedies of the 90s.

This is billed as a comedy. However, it cannot evoke one single smile or laugh.Ford is some kind of investigator. He seems to be a parody of tough guys like Humphrey Bogart, and of lady's men like James Bond. However, this fails to produce. The writing just isn't there. In fact, it looks like there wasn't even a script to this piece of whatever it is. It looks like a bunch of rich kids on crack got together with a video camera and thought they were being funny.they failed miserably.Nothing of interest in the whole movie. I already mentioned there isn't one single funny scene. Not even one funny joke. This bunch of motley scenes just lumps together aimlessly. There appears to be no director, no writer, no film editor. To make matters worse, no one is even entertaining or interesting. It is too bad, but Andrew Clay is just a terrible bore.Hard to imagine anyone giving this film a good rating. It doesn't make sense. This is a film that people on drugs, who are beyond being bored, show you in order to play a prank on you. By all means, one of the worst movies ever made.