Generic style acting by Mike Norris (Chuck's son) and Deborah Goodrich (Erica Kane's phony sister) is laughable as are the dumb thugs chasing them in this ridiculously idiotic action romantic comedy. They certainly aren't Clark Gable and Carole Lombard or William Powell, given an amateurish script dealing with the kidnapping of Goodrich's criminal father, Seymour Cassel, and the teaming of the two non-thespians to find him. Having met ironically early in the day (when Goodrich as a stereotypically poor "woman's driver" ran Norris off the road), they have gone from squabbling to smooching, and that's even after Goodrich poo poo'd daddy's suggesting that something was going on.
The action is satisfactory but the characters so ridiculously drawn and the story silly, and you can't really root for characters whom you are laughing gas and actors whom you are rolling your eyes at. Norris has a stereotypically ditzy mother (Arlene Golonka) who claims to be in love with her car (which Norris borrowed), and I haven't seen gangsters so dumb since the "deese, dems and doe's" of the days of poverty row crime dramas. Norris has such a generic way of reciting his lines that you are surprised that he was actually able to read the script, and Goodrich is one of the earliest examples of vocal fry that I recall seeing on screen. Norris makes his more well known action star father appear to be a Shakespeare star in comparison. Truly awful, and another example of a DVD that I wouldn't use as a cocktail coaster. Cassel completely hams it up which is an automatic raspberry for his performance.
The action is satisfactory but the characters so ridiculously drawn and the story silly, and you can't really root for characters whom you are laughing gas and actors whom you are rolling your eyes at. Norris has a stereotypically ditzy mother (Arlene Golonka) who claims to be in love with her car (which Norris borrowed), and I haven't seen gangsters so dumb since the "deese, dems and doe's" of the days of poverty row crime dramas. Norris has such a generic way of reciting his lines that you are surprised that he was actually able to read the script, and Goodrich is one of the earliest examples of vocal fry that I recall seeing on screen. Norris makes his more well known action star father appear to be a Shakespeare star in comparison. Truly awful, and another example of a DVD that I wouldn't use as a cocktail coaster. Cassel completely hams it up which is an automatic raspberry for his performance.