The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
Tags: comedy, neo noir, murder, stupid, cult, violence, insanity, absurd, humor, satire, revenge, sadist

Plot synopsis:
Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) is seen sitting on a beach smoking as the film opens. A flashback initiates, showing a roaring crowd at a concert given by fictional popular heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black (Vince Neil) makes an eccentric entrance down a zip-line onto the stage and begins performing. Shortly into one of the band's songs, Bobby Black collapses on stage and dies.
After the lead singer of The Black Plague is murdered onstage, shock-jock Johnny Crunch (Gilbert Gottfried), an old friend who came west with Fairlane, hires Ford to track down a mysterious teenage groupie named Zuzu Petals, who may have a connection to Black's death.
Soon after hiring Fairlane, Crunch is electrocuted on the air. The world's hippest detective soon finds himself trading insults with ruthless record executive Julian Grendel (Wayne Newton), a clueless cop and former disco star (Ed O'Neill), a merciless hit man (Robert Englund) and countless ex-girlfriends out for his blood. Aiding and abetting Fairlane is loyal assistant Jazz (Lauren Holly) and a hip record producer (Morris Day) at the head of a bizarre lineup of suspects, victims, beautiful women and a koala as he finds himself hip-deep in the case of his life.
The Macguffin of the film is three data CDs which, when read simultaneously, detail the illegal dealings of Julian Grendel, who was getting rich bootlegging his record company's music and murdered Bobby Black when he found out Black had acquired the CDs with the incriminating evidence.
The first disc was with Colleen Sutton, the second with Zuzu Petals, and the third disc was hidden under the star for Art Mooney on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Review: I should note that I'm SO not a fan of Andrew "Dice" Clay, I think his stand-up shows suck, big time.
But here, he's simply fantastic as Ford Fairlane, the Rock'n Roll Detective, who mostly gets paid in the form of gifts or memorabilia.Dice's jokes here work perfectly each time, one quotable line after another ("so many assholes, so few bullets", "you're a poet and didn't know it", "talking with Zuzu is like ************ with a cheese-grinder, slightly enjoyable but mostly painful" to name a few).
The film never takes itself seriously, yet somehow keeps it from ever going into slapstick territory.Supporting actors do well also, Presly is always a stunner, Wayne Newton gives his best ever performance as Fairlane's nemesis and Ed O'Neill is a riot as a former disco singer turned detective.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is definitely not for everyone, but it's not only for die hard Clay fans, since I sure as hell ain't one of them.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane looks pretty much at the Diceman at his stand-up comedy best.
But though I find Andrew Dice Clay to be a good actor, many people might see this movie and think that he is just using this film as an excuse for people to see his stand-up act.
Andrew Dice Clay, now THERE was a man who was ahead of his time, If he came a decade or two later he would have been heralded as the acting equivalent of say, Eminem..
If you go to a movie which is a vehicle for Andrew Dice Clay who in my estimation is one of the greatest comic minds in history, (and he has the records to prove it, being the only comedian to sell out Madison Square Gardens 2 nights consecutively) how can his brand of humor be used as legitimate criticism in a movie which promotes his brand of comedy to the hilt?
Aside from these minor annoyances, the adventures of ford fairlane delivers all it promised, and should have become a franchise film, had 20th century fox maintained more artistic integrity in the face of controversy, not to mention business savvy as it was still making money when they pulled it despite al the undserved negative publicity.
It's OK to laugh sometimes.I love the dialog in the movie, as well as the one-liners made by Dice.
There's plenty of star quality in the movie with Priscilla Pressley, Ed O'Neil, Wayne Newton, Robert Englund, and Lauren Holly, so lets stop acting like the movie was filled with off the street actors.
When I saw this movie for the first time, I was just getting into Dice's comedy, so I guess my point of view was more biased.
First of all, I'm a firm believer that when a comedian stars in a movie, his job is to be a good actor first and then be funny.
I enjoyed him in certain supporting roles like the one he played in "One Night in McCool's," but he certainly isn't star material.It also kind of bothered me that all the women in the film were portrayed as either ditzes, villains or sex objects.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) was a starring vehicle for Andrew "Dice" Clay.
Are you brave enough to watch Andrew "Dice" Clay try and carry as film?
If you are then go out and watch "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane".The director even shot the movie in widescreen, giving it the classy treatment.
The movie is nothing more than a novelty act for the Dice Man.For die hard Andrew "Dice" Clay fans.
Clay's routine transplanted to a detective "comedy" shows pretty much what made Clay what he is today; it's crude, anti-woman, sexist and extremely lunk-headed.Just like Clay.I'm not a fan of the Dice-Man, but even fans will notice that he's pretty diluted from his usual profane self.
How else could he be considered a "hero", even in sludge like this?And whoever told Gottfried, Presley, Day, Tone Loc, Sheila E and Vince Neil that this was a good career move deserves the same fate as Clay's career.In fact, there is only one good thing about this movie, which I'll tell you now so you won't have to seek out this movie to find it.It's when Gottfried is on an answering system, screeching as only he can, "Is this Chevy Nova, is this the car I want to talk to?"And if you don't find that funny, by all means, steer clear of this "Ford".No stars.
The first starring vehicle for raunchy, misogynistic comedian Andrew Dice Clay, a much-ballyhooed crime-comedy about a rock-'n-roll detective in Hollywood, based upon a character created by Rex Weiner.
After a popular heavy metal singer is murdered, Dice's Ford Fairlane combs the scuzzy music-biz to find the culprits, aided by teen wiseacre Maddie Corman, assistant Lauren Holly (who knows karate!) and a cute Qualla Bear.
It looks like a bunch of rich kids on crack got together with a video camera and thought they were being funny.they failed miserably.Nothing of interest in the whole movie.
It is too bad, but Andrew Clay is just a terrible bore.Hard to imagine anyone giving this film a good rating.
This is about as bad as comedies get.It is childish,immature,smutty and,let's be polite here,AWFUL!!!For god's sake this is RUBBISH!The only people who could possibly find this funny are people with the mentality of a dead hamster.If only it were Dice Clay who was dead instead of Lenny and Bill.And just WHAT is Robert Englund doing in this??.
This movie is one of my favorite from my high school area- we quoted a lot of it's phrases since.Of course I was watching it Hungarian dubbed at that time but I think that was for the better.
The voice act for Ford was done by one famous Hungarian rock musician (Feró Nagy) who was the same attitude and even more hoarse voice.I even liked the story and the gags - this movie has a re-watch value for me.
Acting is pretty good as well so if you like the mood and the hair of the 80's along some good music- watch this movie.One last thing: Respect to Jimi Hendrix :-).
This movie is filled with cliche plot twists, jokes and situations, the only bait on the hook being Andrew Dice Clay, who was quite a phenomenon at the time.
You know it's funny but the 'Razzies' are the 'crap awards' and they gave them to this movie because they didn't like Homo-Jokes I heard (Homosexual spoofing)not spooning, don't get excited, but in light of the fact that this was funny and Politically incorrect and the photography, camera work and beach scenes with the other scenery and lighting and camera lens filters were outstanding, no one took notice for some of the other kind of more hidden aspects of this, all because there was some Pro-Heterosexual humor in this picture.
if you laugh at richard pryor or eddie murphy's standup stuff you will LOVE this movie, if you don't you should still give it a shot.In this time and day Dice is outcast because of his humor in a politically correct world (does "banned for life" ring a bell?), he should have more relevance in comedy, I'm sick of the stupid scary movies coming out nowdays, sequel!!!!!!!!.
Rating: * * * 1/2The Diceman Andrew Clay stars as rock and roll detective to the music industry Ford Fairlane.
Andrew Dice Clay's starring vehicle may have tanked at the box office but it is still a really raunchy and fun way to spend two hours.
I funny movie if you like Andrew Dice Clay's humor..
Ford Fairlane will find Dice landing the role as the Rock and Roll detective.
And even if he's not- he's still funny.Finally, like another poster said, this movie- and this comedian is ahead of his time.
The Dice man is a comedian for folks who like the kind of humor that makes you say "that's just wrong!" but you laugh anyway.
I bet he's a Dice fan.Anyway, this movie is the kind of humor that makes you say "that's just wrong!" and then you laugh.
The movie wasn't a big hit here in Spain ( I think no one saw it, maybe because Andrew Dice Clay was a bit unknown here )but TV and Video have made it something as a cult movie.
Some people say that this movie is good in spite of Dice, but I say that he is what makes this film.
Okay, it's not a film masterpiece, but....Given the right attitude by viewers it's:Hilarious Entertaining A great way to spend a couple of hours.Give it a go, the lead (Clay) and his sidekick Jazz are just great to watch and listen to.
(nice baps, but what's she done since?) (looks) (oh)Having had this film ingrained in my memory for so many years, I could never see in a million how any woman could enjoy Ford's character traits, but I incredibly surprised to find that not only did my wife really enjoy the film, but really enjoyed ADC's performance.As for flopping, this film is the reason Renny Harlin got Die Hard 2 (check Trivia).
I don't want a sequel, I don't need Clay to be a huge star, but I think this movie should get the credit it deserves.
For some reason, I just feel like this movie was written off for being less than what it actually was: a goofy, high strung detective story with enough wink-wink to make it more enjoyable than Dice's usual antics.
Clay is unbelievably funny and cool, I mean at the end of the movie you will definitely try to repeat one of his lines!
Ford Fairlane (Andrew Dice Clay) is known as the Rock n' Roll Detective.
Andrew Dice Clay narrates as Ford Fairlan, rock and roll detective, as we're introduced to a dying breed of hair metal band that would appear in heavy rotation on Howard Stern who will be the murder victim in this common 90s neo-noir full of mid-30s greaser baby boomers, Gen X hookers, Hawaiian shirts, beaches, palm trees, muscle cars, venetian blinds, ceiling fans, smoking and Lauren Holly.
Standing in the rock and roll detective's way is Ed O'Neil, who plays a disgruntled detective accompanied with his own Yello soundtrack (who worked on the score) along with Wayne Newton who is convincing as an evil Walt Disney look-a-like record producer.
***SPOILERS*** Signature role for the "Ice Man" Andrew Dice Clay as Mr. Rock & Roll Detective Ford Fairlane the coolest cat on the Sunset Strip.
This had Grendel get as much as 95% of the profits of rock stars like Black by drastically lowering the take, ticket sales, that they took in their concerts as well as who many records they sold!***SPOILERS*** Andrew Dice Clay gets to strut his stuff as Mr. Rock & Roll Detective Ford Fairlane with his 1950's greaser look and off color sexual, mostly about women and gays, jokes but also show he's a sensitive and helpful guy with a heart of gold when he has to be.
"The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" was supposed to be raunchy stand-up comic Andrew Dice Clay's launch pad into movie stardom, but unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your feelings about "Dice") by the time it was released his fifteen minutes of fame was about up, and the film crashed and burned.
I will admit that I have never been a big "Dice-Man" fan, I've only ever been able to tolerate his stand-up routines in small doses, but oddly enough, I have always enjoyed this movie.
With his bubble-brained charge in tow, Fairlane spends the rest of the movie avoiding gunshots, explosions and a maniacal Australian hit man (played by Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund of all people, with a horrible Aussie accent) before he stumbles upon a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top of the music industry.
"The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" may not be a great movie, but it is a fun one.
Some of Dice's one-liners are endlessly quotable ("Talking to Zuzu was like masturbating with a cheese grater - mildly entertaining but mostly painful." "So many a-holes, so few bullets!" "You're about ten seconds away from the most embarrassing moment of your life!"), and director Renny Harlin keeps the pace light and moving fast enough that you don't' have time to stop and think how ridiculous the whole thing is.
The whole movie looks like a film that clearly embodies the whole spirit and soul of the '80's.The tropical mellow melody from "Yello" is great and so is Vince Neil and Sheila E.
While I cannot claim to be a great fan of "The Dice Man",I can say that his stage presence and confidence makes this movie walk,talk,run and kick butt!Rock'n roll Private Investigator(he once was a musician)Ford Fairlane(Clay) can't seem to make the rent pay and gets a lot of deadbeat clients.
His rock star clients love him while everyone else loves to hate him.This movie was blackballed from the get-go simply because it starred Andrew Clay (and Ed O'Neill who at the time was also being attacked for his role as Al Bundy).
I saw this movie my senior year in high school the night it premiered and wasn't sorry then nor am I sorry now that I own it on DVD.If you can put aside the ignorance of the "Dice" haters, that can't seem to differentiate when a person is being him/herself or when they are acting, you'll enjoy this film.
Andrew Dice Clay gets to act like himself and make fun of the 'Dice Man' persona at the same time.
Sucking my d*&%!"Throw in running jokes like the fact that Ford NEVER gets paid in actual money(Just rock-star freebies of one kind or another, including a Koala bear from INXS, and bicycle shorts & hair extensions from Milli Vanilli.), plus the random women who slap/kiss Ford for leaving them high and dry after a night of fun, and you definitely have a movie at least worth your time...Besides ANY movie with a car like that is at least worth watching ONCE, isn't it?Just remember not to take things TOO seriously(You might get hurt!)..
One would think it would take more than marching women, gay rights activists and paraplegics to scare a monster Hollywood studio like 20th Century Fox."The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" is a great movie and Andrew Dice Clay fans are not the only ones who can enjoy it.
ford fairlane, staring andrew dice clay was released at the pinacle of the controversy caused by clay's raunchy comedy act.
newton delivers some very funny one liners such as "ford you're an island of reality in an ocean of diareah" give this movie a chance and you'll enjoy it.
With the terribly uninteresting story of Clay's Rock n' Roll Detective solving a crime we are never given any reason to care about at all the movie was always doomed to fail.
I suppose its possible that Harlin has a worse movie than the Adventures of Ford Fairlane because I haven't seen all of his work.
I shudder at the thought that something could be worse than this.The acting is atrocious, Andrew Dice Clay's leading man is utterly unlikable and Harlin is at his worst.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is one of my all-time favorite films, despite being poorly thought out, having almost no convincing plot twists and being an overall second-rate movie However, it has just about the best collection of one-liners and catch phrases I've ever seen, and, seriously, who hasn't seen this movie and wished to be Ford Fairlane, Rock 'n' Roll detective?!?!
Only man can solve this case and that's "The Rock and Roll Detective" Ford Fairlane !
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is one of those movies that should have been a BIG HIT and what I want to know is where did it go wrong?
You you know that it wasn't.Andrew Dice Clay plays the over the top character Ford Fairlane, a music industry private detective that uses his various connections to get him into 'the hottest clubs, the hottest gigs' and wait for it 'the hottest chicks'.
However for Andrew Clay doing 'I ain't got you' as what has to be the movies musical highlight.
Absolutely the best movie ever, great one-liners ( so many a**holes, so few bullets ), great acting ( Andrew " Dice " Clay , need I say more ?
Considering the, um, quality of some of Andrew Dice Clay's work, this movie was surprisingly good.
It's a movie that I re-watch occasionally if I'm in need of a laugh.Lauren Holly was particularly good as the straight-man, to Clay's irreverent/slapstick character.
Adventures of Ford Fairlane is the greatest movie of all time.
My suggestion...don't believe the hype around Clay's stand up act and watch this guy as the comedy genius that he is in this movie.
This is a really cool action packed comedy starring the foul mouthed womanizing comedian Andrew Dice Clay at his best!!
He outsmarts a good number of villains in the movie played by guys like Wayne Newton and Robert Englund and goes out of his way to become the hottest heroic detective of the century.
If you love Andrew Dice Clay or great action comedies with hilarious quotes, go rent The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane immediately!!!
But even Ebert had to admit that Andrew Dice Clay has a future in movies.
But still, when you watch the movie, the Fairlane character is very compelling to watch, and very funny.
A decent supporting cast and Clay's best timing lead to a certainly vulgar, yet nevertheless quite funny movie.
After movies like There's something about Mary and American Pie, which have great overt humor, Ford Fairlane is no slacker.Give it a watch, you'll be surprised....