Nothing But Trouble

Plot synopsis:
While hosting a party in his Manhattan penthouse, financial publisher Chris Thorne (Chase) meets lawyer Diane Lightson (Moore) and agrees to escort her to consult a client in Atlantic City on the following day. Thorne's clients, obnoxious but wealthy Brazilian siblings Fausto and Renalda, whom he calls "Brazillionaires", meet up with them and invite themselves along.
Along the way, Chris takes a supposed scenic detour off of the New Jersey Turnpike, ultimately ending up in the run-down village of Valkenvania. Failing to comply with a stop sign and subsequently attempting to escape pursuing officer Dennis Valkenheiser (Candy), the group is captured and taken before Dennis's 106-year-old grandfather Judge Alvin Valkenheiser (Aykroyd), who confiscates their identification cards. After Chris makes too many smart-alecky remarks, the judges drops a trap door out from under them in order to hold the offenders in his courthouse/funhouse to be judged. Later, some disrespectful drunk drivers that tried to threaten Dennis are called before the judge, who sentences them to immediate death at the hands of a deadly roller coaster nicknamed "Mr. Bonestripper".
Invited up to dinner, the group is repulsed by the bizarre food choices (involving a hot dog train and a warm can of Hawaiian punch) but also learns the Judge has labeled Chris as a "banker" for his financial affiliations, and is holding them there out of revenge for the Valkenheiser family's misfortune at the hands of a corrupt coal deal long before. The group attempts an escape, but due to a series of mishaps, Chris and Diane are overtaken by Alvin's mute granddaughter Eldona (also John Candy). Meanwhile, being chased by Dennis' trigger-happy cousin, Miss Purdah, the two Brazillionaires escape by cutting a deal with Dennis, who decides to escape with them.
The Judge is angered by their actions and imprisons Chris and Diane in a room from which the pair eventually escapes (again with help from Dennis) and getting lost through hidden hallways and slides, become separated. Diane makes it out of the house and into the property's salvage yard; here, she meets two troll-like creatures by the names of Bobo and Lil' Debbull, the judge's severely deformed grandchildren. Earning the creatures' friendship, Diane catches glimpses of Eldona destroying Chris's BMW.
Meanwhile, Chris sneaks into the Judge's personal quarters but is quickly caught. Valkenheiser punishes him according to house policy, which decrees that Chris must marry Eldona. Meanwhile, in the court room, the alternative rap group Digital Underground is being held on charges of speeding, but the Judge releases them after being charmed by an impromptu performance of one of the group's hits. He also asks them to stay as witnesses for the wedding, which Chris reluctantly goes through with in exchange for his life, but is later caught pleading the band to help him escape. The band leaves without understanding him, and Alvin sentences Chris to die in "Mr. Bonestripper". The machine breaks down the instant before Chris is fed into it, and he escapes. The Judge nearly kills Diane with another claw contraption, but Chris retrieves her at the last second and the two jump on a train back to New York.
After the two report their plight to the authorities, the Judge's courthouse is raided by local and state police. Chris and Diane are asked to accompany the officers to the site, only to find out that the officers involved are fully aware of and in league with the Judge. The couple escapes when the area's underground coal fires cause a collapse, destroying the town.
The Brazillionaires are shown to have made their way back to South America; Dennis is now their personal head of security and Renalda's lover. Chris and Diane are shown relaxing in New York. Chris's relief does not last, however, as he stumbles on a televised news segment covering the ruined town of Valkenvania, in which Valkenheiser, brandishing Chris's driver's license, announces that he and his family plan to move in with his new grandson-in-law in New York, saying "See you soon, Banker!". Chris runs away panicking while making a cartoon-style impression of himself through a wall.

Tags: comedy, cult

Review:
This one makes them look like Peewee's Playhouse.You know how certain horror movies cross over into comedy?
It gets pretty weird, and if you're not expecting it, it can be downright upsetting.I think that's what makes so many people hate this movie.
From the movies I've seen Demi Moore in, this ranks as her best and shows that she can do comedy.
I think I watched this film first on television and liked it....then I bought the DVD years later and loved it.
I believe a reason for this one being a flop is that people have a certain expectation if movie stars they love are performing...They are frustrated when they don't recognize Dan Aykroyd in make-up, when John Candy plays entertaining but without being overly funny and when Demi Moore is not as heart-wrenching as in 'Ghost'.
They pull away quite some focus from the rest of the movie...Also, this film is a little gross at times and maybe for a big budget comedy people where not ready for that yet.
There is just that something unique about the chemistry between comedians Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Chevy Chase.The story is about four upscale people whom are caught for traffic violations in Valkenvania and are brought for immediate sentencing before the eccentric judge Alvin Valkenheiser.
And soon the day turns into a real nightmare.While "Nothing But Trouble" is not the type of comedy that will split you open from excessive laughing, then there is just something Classic about the entire movie; be it the mood and absurdity of the story, the hilarious and outrageous characters, or the fact that Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Chevy Chase were just a great combination, I do not know.
And if you are a fan of Dan Aykroyd, John Candy or Chevy Chase, then "Nothing But Trouble" is a must watch..
A movie you can watch when you want lots of interesting characters, scenery, and complete nonsense everywhere you look.
A super comedy with all the comical geniuses of a generation (Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Candy) and a hysterical script and it goes to the bottom?
What did you expect to see here, 'Scary Movie'?Dan Aykroyd in an acting job that defines comical acting, Chevy Chase with his usual tongue in cheek style and John Candy with his genius timing isn't enough for you?Well, just go see 'American Pie' for one more time.
It's a good time, utterly bazaar and twisted, but fun.If you liked Dead Alive (BrainDead), anything from Troma Films or Early Sam Raimi flicks you will understand the message this movie is trying to deliver.
I'm also kind of surprised by the bad reviews this movie had, i've always considered it a good dark-adventure for teens.
I'm really not sure this is so far away of the well-respected Stand by me (7.7) and The Goonies (7.5)...Many good things could be said about it: it has a great set, the house craziness and oppression is perfectly transmitted through itGood acting here, by Dan Aykroyd and John Candythe Digital Underground surprising performanceDemi Moore, with some weight overload on her legs, but still looking great, showing us that anorexia is not always needed on screenDisgusting scenes all over the movie, just because that's what the movie is about!And above all, it entertains.
An irony: This movie would fit right into a segment of Leonard Pinth Garnell's "Bad Cinema." Those familiar with SNL know of what I speak.Some may very well like it.
My favorite part is when they're eating "Dutch country heifers" (hot dogs) and Akroyd says:  "Here's how I like 'em, and I suggest you eat 'em the same way."  If ever a movie captured the unpleasant juxtaposition between the normal world and the abnormal world, it would certainly be this one (with the dining scene in Eraserhead coming in a close second:  "They're new!").
I admit, I was expecting a lot more old school comedic humor between Dan, Chevy, and John but I was pleasantly surprised at the end of the movie how much I enjoyed their individual performances.
I believe the venerable movie critic Leslie Haliwell sums this film up best: "...exceeding dismal comedy in which a group of self-indulgent comedians, having been given a great deal of rope, proceed to hang themselves; it is not a pretty sight."  Variety says, "Astonishingly poor effort...the longest 94 minutes on record."  Ken Newman, of 'Sight and Sound,' claims this was an "absolute failure as a comedy..."  This is truly and without exception or doubt the worst film ever produced.
Ironically, the film was written by an arguably intelligent team (the brothers Aykroyd) and starred four usually reliable actors:  Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Demi Moore, and the late John Candy.
Don't waste your time watching this, we didn't even finish it 'cus it was so horrible, and I think we ended out throwing the DVD away.My rating, 0 of 10...if that's even possible...~Ange Doré~.
Maybe they figured, "Hey, it's Dan Aykroyd, he'll think up something funny." That's like being told you need brain surgery and that your surgeons are going to be Johnny Knoxville and Tom Green, and figuring, "Well, that's OK, they'll learn brain surgery before the operation."The only even remotely amusing bits in this movie belong to John Candy as both a cop and his sister (!), and that's due solely to Candy's ability to make a silk purse out of a sow's droppings.
So much wasted talent and money, and all those cumulative life-hours of all those viewers.If you feel you must see this, this belongs at the very bottom of your Netflex queue, when there is absolutely nothing else left to watch--your time is worth way more than this..
Take a moment to realize that a long time ago, comedy legends Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase made a movie so unspeakably bad that its almost impossible to watch.
Whats even more insulting is the fact that Dan Aykroyd actually wrote and directed this picture, as if this was the movie he was dreaming to get made.
This movie was like a potentially good line of standup humor that went horribly wrong when converted to film.Please save yourself from watching this movie..
Like I said, this wasn't the best movie ever made but it wasn't the worst.
This makes "Cannibal the Musical" look like "Gone With the Wind."  It even beats "Freddy Got Fingered" for the title of truly the very worst movie ever made..
I have not watched it again since I was asked recently what is the worst movie you have ever seen and this piece of trash was remembered..
I don't know if this was the Akroyd/Chase team trying to pat themselves on the back by thinking any movie they made would be good because "they" were in it, but this was just awful.
Dan Aykroyd, who must have been snorting cocaine nonstop while making this, directs and stars in a movie about a family who goes off course in New Jersey and ends up in the hands of a truly scary inbred family.
Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd and John Candy.
Not one laugh in the entire movie, and I use terms like 'film' and 'movie' extremely loosely here, because this waste of several thousand feet of celluloid is actually probably so disturbingly bad that I have a very hard time seeing that anyone could give this film a vote of anything above a 1.
What will happen to Chris, Diane and the siblings?"Nothing But Trouble" is a bizarre black comedy by Dan Aykroyd that does not work very well despite the cast.
Chevy Chase plays a rich, New York banker, Chris, and when his friend, including Diane (Demi Moore) want him to drive them to Atlantic City, he agrees.
The whole movie is Chevy Chase and Demi Moore trying to escape from the mansion.
Stars: Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Taylor Negron, Bertila Demas, Brian Doyle Murray and Peter Aykroyd.I don't know how anybody could've thought up this ridiculous and horribly unfunny movie.
I was hoping for a brilliant comedy because of the 3 great comic actors Akroyd,Candy and Chase.
This is the most clever thing in the movie.Demi Moore is somewhat fetchingly attired, however, even had she removed her top in the film, I'd still be loathe to recommend it.
The police officer took him to the local Justice of the Peace in the middle of the night for a trial.It's a sad thing when movie with such comedians as Chevy Chase ("National lampoons vacation") , Dan Aykroyd ("Blues brothers") and John Candy ("Planes , trains and automobiles") doesn't have even one funny thing in it.
Yes, it's that bad.I could say that there are some good things in this movie- Demi Moore ("Ghost") is pretty and the set decoration is nice.
Unless you think that John Candy dressed as a woman is hilarious.Interesting thing – This is Tupac Shakur's film debut.
John Candy, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, and Demi Moore.
i love Nothing But Trouble, and i think the problem that occurs frequently is that people rent it thinking it'll be hilarious bc of Dan Akroyd, John Candy, chevy chase, etc.
If one takes the time to read the reviews here, one will smell something fishy: Most (95%?) say that this movie is the worst they have ever seen.
In fact, it is one of my all-time favorite comedies.Dan Akroyd's performance as the demented judge is hilarious.
I commended him on his choice when I saw the cast of characters.We watched the movie with a growing sense of horror, and at its completion, neither of us said a word for a good 20 minutes.
It tops my all time worst movie list, with only "Very Bad Things" even remotely approaching it.
Compared to dark comedies like The Cable Guy and Death to Smoochy, I think this film is quite good.
Chevy Chase (in his last funny role, though he's somewhat of a straight-man here), Demi Moore, John Candy, Taylor Negron, et al, do a great job.
I recently took in this notorious misfire featuring Chase, Demi Moore, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd on cable.
To show how completely off base he was, Aykroyd included a musical number by flavor of the month rappers Digital Underground of "The Humpty Dance" fame (two years after they were considered cool; look closely for a young, clean-cut 2Pac Shakur in the group before he decide he was a gangster).On the plus side, the film does sport some lavish production values, even if the sets look more like something out of a horror movie.
Nothing But Trouble is excellent comedy with a great cast which includes Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Demi Moore, Valri Bromfield,Taylor Negron, Bertila Damas, Brian Doyle-Murray, Peter Aykroyd, and Daniel Baldwin!
Aykroyd has a great performance and Candy is really wonderful in the movie.
If you love John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, and the rest of the cast mentioned and great comedies then I Strongly recommend this film!
Movie Nuttball's NOTE: If you love John Candy then I recommend that you see the following films: Summer Rental, Armed and Dangerous, Spaceballs, The Great Outdoors, Who's Harry Crumb?, and Uncle Buck!.
This movie freaked me out when I was a kid and all the way through it I was praying for Mr Chevy Chase to get out of that death trap of a house and away from that creepy evil surreal family of country misfits!But at the same time this movie was hilarious from beginning to end and Dan Aykroyd as Judge Alvin "J.P" Valkenheiser & Bobo was pure genius.I have no doubt that this movie will become a classic and if you haven't seen it yet go rent it now!.
Yeah and this film it a quite entertaining adventure of that horror comedy fans should get a kick out of.Directed & written by Dan Aykroyd, staring Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, Dan Aykroyd and John Candy.
We know it's not real, but come on this Movie "Nothing But Trouble" was funny and well done by many great actors; such as Chevy Chase and the Late Great John Candy.
It Has An ALL-STAR Cast Including Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, And John Candy Who All Draw A Bunch Of Laughs.
This movie is so bad that it makes me feel kind of sad and uncomfortable that I watched it.
The story is original and funny and if you like Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase you should watch this movie despite what others have commented.
I'm not putting these people down but I think they watched this movie with preconceived notions about what they expected of for instance Chevy Chase in regards of being "hilariously funny".
Let's face it, Chevy Chase or Demi Moore are enough to kill a movie on their own, I assumed that pairing the two of them up would result in something than man was not meant to sit through.
Just give it a chance, if you like the usual sort of movies starring John Candy, you'll definitely like it.
Balancing both comedy and horror, the film is never quite as funny or scary as it may have been had writer-director Dan Aykroyd chosen to just focus on one genre, but the great imagination he displays here makes it seem a shame that the film's negative reception caused him to give up directing altogether.
We always choose to judge a movie by how good it makes us feel, while we think we are in for a comedy here with Nothing But Trouble we are deeply mistaken, and I think plenty of people rate this film so low because they expected much differently.
People who hate this movie I can guarantee feel the same way I do now after watching it.
Demi Moore is solid as Chase's romance interest, and Taylor Negron (very over the top) is great in his small role.If you love dark comedies or even slightly enjoy them, this is for you but as many people on the handful of reviews I've already seen have said: this makes "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Deathtrap" and "Heathers" seem like Peewee's Playhouse.
The last film in general that has affected me anywhere close to this unsettled was probably "Come and See" (1985), but this my friends, this film takes the cake.Another comment I read off of YouTUbe which summed this film up completely was: "I used to think Stephen King was out of his mind, but Aykroyd just speedballed him."This movie gets a high rating from me, near shy of a perfect score for an amazing cast, getting something I was completely not asking for (in the best way), and having so many lucid feelings after watching something I thought people had pinned correctly as cinematic garbage..
I really love movies, but this one has got to be the worst of all time with such a good cast.
John Candy, Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, and Dan Aykroyd take off on this horror spoof through an east coast junk yard they will never forget.
I think the main reason is that with a cast of such comedy legends as Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd and John Candy, people were expecting a more conventional comedy.
This review is for Nothing But Trouble - and underrated gem of a movie that came out into the early 90's.Apparently loosely based on a true story, the movie stars Dan Akyroyd (it's also directed by him as well), Chevy Chase, Demi Moore and the always great and (it pains me to say this) late John Candy.Chevy Chase and Demi Moore play a couple who end up in the town of Valkanvania after having a run in with the police, and the end up at the judge's house where they meet the crazy J.P Valkanheiser and Bobo and Lil Debul as well as the police cop's sister Eldona (also played by John Candy).The judges house is filled with all sorts of kooky mechanical devices, and all sorts of hijinks insue in this.A lot of critics tend to bash this one on the grounds of it's plot, but it's supposed to be weird because it's a black comedy and it doesn't have to make sense for you to enjoy it.I heavily recommend watching this movie..
My goal in life is to see every movie Dan Aykroyd and John Candy have ever been in so of course, this movie was on my list.
With the number of interesting, funny actors in this film, I went into the movie theater with high hopes.
I loved the fact that it starts out like very much like any old movie (the only part that many of the film's most critical reviewers seem to like) and turns into something you would never expect at all.
I think most people just expect way too much from this movie once they see who is in it.
Just him as the old judge makes the film worth watching.
John Candy in drag dishing out the nastiest looking "hot dogs" ever, Dan Akroyd as a whacked out super ugly old crazy judge with a dick nose at the head of the table doing the best crazy weird old man I've ever seen, and Chevy Chase as a diner.
Chevy Chase and Demi Moore are hoping to get out very quickly, but the judge has other plans in mind."Nothing But Trouble" is a strange little picture, there's absolutely nothing like it-and for that I applaud it.
Despite starring Chevy Chase, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd-three comedy legends-don't expect "Caddyshack" or "Ghostbusters".
One liners are cringe-worthy, but coming from Chase, they sort of work, and Moore is just hilariously bad.Add Candy in drag, and a couple of what could only be described as blobs into the mix, and you have one of the most random movies to come out of the nineties.I like it, I can't think for the life of me why, but I always enjoy watching it..