Palmer's Pick-Up (1999) User Reviews

Don't pick it up

[Jozepo · 20 January 2003]

Crap! I would have expected this movie to have been made by a very amatuer film maker, turns out to be Francis Ford Coppola's nephew, Christopher. The apple fell far, far from the tree. The characters were unhinged and barely tollerable as was the plot. But even worse, the cardinal sin was broken.....the movie was so bad I began looking at things like the camera work, and style, completely forgetting about the storyline all together. There were so many goofy camera angles that I felt like I was in an anti-gravity room with an equilibrium problem. I thought the movie was trying to be a mixture of Pulp Fiction, a road trip film, Dumb and Dumber, and the Prophecy. I certainly would expect better from a Coppola!

Absolutely Terrible

[madartist_88 · 1/10 · 25 April 2008]

This has got to be the absolute worst movie I have EVER seen. I've seen some crappy movies including "the Vanishing Point" (1997), and "Snakes on a Train", but this one definitely tops them all. The story line was untolerably boring, the acting was terrible, and the movie in general was so corny that it wasn't even funny. Sure I got a laugh out of a few of the scenes from their stupidity, but to be completely honest, me and my buddies couldn't watch the whole thing... We made it to half way, then skipped to the end just to see how things turned out.. Anyways, this has got to be on the top ten worst movies ever made. I bought it for $10 thinking it might be something like the classic "Smokey and the Bandit." Man was I wrong. Trust me, save your cash and go to a theater for some entertainment.. You definitely wont get it from this movie!

A few gags but somewhat disappointing

[headhunter46 · 1/10 · 18 July 2005]

I had hoped to see some really funny material here.

Perhaps I just didn't get it.

Or perhaps the gags really are lame.

I don't recommend this movie.

There were some jabs aimed at a few of the rather ridiculous type folks.

Those who the wise don't take seriously.

Such as a TV evangelist who says "take it all with you." Sorry but a great deal of the acting was no better than what I saw in the senior class play held by the local high school in 1965.

108 minutes of my life I wish I had back!

[ashkenobistar · 1/10 · 18 February 2008]

This is undoubtedly the worst movie I have ever seen! I am shocked that it was billed as a comedy, because there was nothing remotely funny about this film. I can only guess that whomever tried to categorize this picture gave up and proffered "comedy" since it defies all conventional genres and was not entertaining in any other fashion. There is only a sliver of a plot to guide this surreal, pointless tale and you would be better entertained by striking yourself in the head with a heavy, blunt object, which would ultimately result in less brain trauma than viewing this movie would cause. Sadly, I have had the misfortune of watching "Palmer's Pickup" in its entirety and I am now compelled to save others from from a similar fate.

One star, for Rosanna Arquette

[stevepb · 1/10 · 31 July 2020]

If you think this movie was bad, get a hold of the DVD and check out the deleted scenes. It could have been much, much worse.

There's also an interview with the director, who describes in detail what he was trying to achieve - a sort of tribute to Barnum & Bailey and the zanier side of life, silly things like the world's biggest office chair and pet rocks.

Unfortunately he fails dismally. It's just not funny, and the two leads are as unattractive as they are uninteresting.

This is a whacky, cult classic, a melting circus on an American highway.

[faust5 · 10/10 · 2 July 1999]

This is a whacky, cult classic, a melting circus on an American highway. "It's a Mad, Mad World" for the nineties. I thoroughly enjoyed this funny and refreshingly different film