Overlooked Comedy Gem, Sequel Needed
This is a funny movie that got skewered by many critics. The skewering wasn't due to the movie being bad but Andrew Dice Clay's humor that is frequently anti-Semitic, anti-black, anti-Asian and anti-anything. Dice came off as racist in his concerts. I saw Roger Ebert basically ignore reviewing the movie and railed about Clay's comedy being racist and anti-Semitic. However I notice Don Rickles did this sort of thing for decades and was vastly more racist than any comedian I've heard yet Rickles is loved. Don Rickles did the racial stuff and had friends of every color in real life. It was just an act and he poked fun at every race including his own. Andrew Dice Clay, while not as classy as Rickles, does the same thing. Clay makes fun of Jews and is a Jew himself.
I noticed in the movie he had two of my favorite singers. Sheila E and Morris Day. Day was the lead singer of the group The Time. The Time is probably the coolest group that ever existed. Sheila E is a talented drummer and singer and I was glad to see her in a movie.
It was also good to see Ed O'Neil as the cop who hated Ford and they played well off each other. The arguments they had were like two little kids on the playground.
The movie itself is raunchy and cartoonish. Clay is perfect as the main cartoon character of Ford Fairlane. The jokes didn't work always but the movie had some style. It's a cult classic and a sequel needs to be made. However because of Clay's anti-Semitic humor he basically screwed any chance of big budget sequel. They knew it would sell as a DVD so a sequel would probably make more than the original at the box office.
Rayvyn