Load of rubbish!!

Let's be realistic.

Just perfect...

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

From the era that gave us such memorable and hilarious raunchy comedies like "Animal House" "Airplane" "Caddy Shack" "Stripes" and "Vacation." "Used Cars" never received as much attention as these others, although it still stands up with any of them. UC is a satire of the retail car business, which is a pretty easy mark to make fun of. There are some hilarious bits...various scams that are pulled by the salesmen, outrageous commercials and a great portrayal by Kurt Russell as Rudy Russo,a completely unethical salesman at New Deal Used Cars. Russell never gets the proper credit as one of the great versatile actors of all time. He can do drama, action, romance and here shows off his terrific comedic talents as Rudy Russo has figured his talents would be best served in politics (his motto is "Trust Me") but first he has to come up with a $50K donation to the party to secure his nomination.Rudy works for the laid back Roy Fuchs, content to run his small car lot while across the street his brother Luke has a huge mega car lot. Luke is a complete snake who wants nothing more than to swallow up Roy's business and have the biggest dealership in the valley. The Fuchs Brothers are played by one of the best character actors around, Jack Warden. Luke will stop at nothing and what unfolds is some very funny stuff. Gerritt Graham and Frank McRae are a riot as Rudy's cohorts at New Deal, while Joe Flaherty delivers a top notch performance as Luke's completely sleazy attorney. Really one one complaint in the cast...Deborah Harmon as Roy Fuchs daughter, who inherits the agency. Great looking, limited in her comedic acting range. Would have loved seeing someone like Catherine O'Hara in this part. But if you've never seen this, it's worth checking out!

Rudolph 'Rudy' Russo (Kurt Russell) sells used cars in a almost failed shop owned by Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden). In this shop they sell wrecked cars, with the stripping painting and other horrible things but Russo has a dream: make a good publicity of the shop, sell all the damaged cars to make money and run for a Senate's chair. Luke's brother Roy (also played by Warden) also has a used car shop right in front of his and he also has a plan: To buy his brother shop and moved out to it since the City Hall has planned a project that's gonna made him close his spot.In "Used Cars" the rivalry between car salesman's and their weapons to attract more clients is a very funny thing. Russo is a talented guy who uses of deceiving and smart moves to sell a used car but he's not selling so much lately. After Luke's death things got worse and he knows that Luke's brother wants to take over his business He hides Luke's corpse, saying to all even to Luke's estranged daughter (Deborah Harmon) that he's traveled to Florida and starts to run with the things on the shop making awkward and funny commercials. Along with Jeff (Gerritt Graham, one of the most funny actors I've seen. Great performance he has here) another salesman and a mechanical (Frank McRae) they produce with a couple of friends some of the weirdest commercials ever, interrupting a football game or President Jimmy Carter's speech, leaving the audience in a total state of shock.In real life we would probably hate these characters because all they do is lie to obtain a sale. But writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis (who directed the movie too) saw a great opportunity to make a very intelligent and funny movie about salesman who don't care about anything except themselves. One moment that you can die laughing is when Jeff is trying to sell a big car to an big family. He tells to the family to make a test-drive and meanwhile he puts his dog Toby under the car and puts something on the wheels. Then the car passes by and he starts to cry, says that they killed his dog and convinced the family to buy the car. This scene is very funny because the dog wasn't killed and he acted so ridiculously funny, it's such a smart dog. There's a war between Russo and Roy about who's gonna win the possession of the shop; the publicity lies and many other things. This is one the first films directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Back to the Future", "Cast Away", "Contact") and it's so strange not seeing any visual effects here. By the end of the movie I couldn't believe that this is one of his works. And it's a great film, very underrated and surprisingly funny. 10/10

This film appeared at a transitional moment in American comedy, and was beaten at the box-office by the first of what became the dominating type of comic film ever since, "Airplane!". Yet, among the last of the '70s style comedies of outrageous characters in domestic settings (the type finally met its waterloo in the bloated "Blues Brothers," but still managed a convulsively successful finale in "Ghostbusters"), "Used Cars" is among the funniest of its type and era.With most of its budget going to (what else?) used cars, the film still manages a solidly competent look throughout, largely thanks to some real risky one-take stunts and set-pieces. The pacing is swift, and the actors play dead-pan but not so much that we need to take any of this seriously."Used Cars" is also the kind of comedy that satirizes all we hold dear as Americans, but not so bitterly that we are left feeling bad about ourselves; this may be a depiction of us at our worst - but hey, nobody's perfect! Besides, there's just enough of a romantic story attached to remind us of the redemptive power of love - without getting all syrupy-sweet on us.Just excessive enough to get silly without ever being dull, a hearty laugh for any time of day.

You know, if it weren't my pet peeve - the usage of the Lord's name in vain - I would have loved this low-life movie because it had a lot of funny moments. However, the profanity/verbal blasphemy in here is one of the worst I've ever heard in a comedy. Too bad, because the premise of two competing auto dealers doing whatever it takes to get business away from the other guy was good.These unscrupulous car dealers (is that redundant?) will do anything for business and ruin their competitor. Kurt Russell and Jack Warden are the two guys. There are some memorable scenes in here, I have to admit. The television commercial, for one, is a classic!