Absolutely

I know they both took cinema seriously as an art form but also recognised movies could just be fabulously entertaining.

Topper let me tell you a story about a little girl and 3 bears.. And he plays it perfectly serious which just adds to the humor!

Crenna was supposedly nervous about accepting such a role and went to Stallone to get permission. Sly told him to go for it.

​@@scottvincent184What was also so funny was when they had the number of people being killed in it coming up on screen taking the mick out of the massive body counts in the Rambo films well mainly 2 and 3 but the 4th one piled em up even more and even more gruesome too also when he used the chicken as an arrow 🤣🤣

Yes! It sure likes to run!

That’s funny. I only saw the movie once, and that’s the part I always remember. “If I can’t make a friend, I’ll buy one.”

Personally, I always liked the gag about the local sheriff who keeps failing his driving exam and so has to take a taxi to crime scenes.

I can see why you think that. S&E were not Chevy Chase fans. Even on Johnny Carson they appeared once with him and panned Three Amigos right to his face, although Siskel said he liked Fletch and Vacation while Ebert said Chase was good in Foul Play. But they admitted neither were Chase fans but they both loved this movie. And I agree this was Chase’s best acting because he tried something different and did well with it. Great underrated film. I think it stinks it opened the very same day Big did though because I actually love both comedies equally but Big was a smash and Funny Farm did only mildly well. Still most people I ask about it now do seem to love it even my friend who isn’t a Chase fan said he thought Chase did a good job in Funny Farm. But June 3, 1988. If I were alive then would have been a day of infamy for me as a movie critic because Big and Funny Farm opened on the exact same day and it would be hard for me to convince people that both are comedy masterpieces. I would say to see both back to back on the same weekend if I were Siskel or Ebert. But Funny Farm was sadly unloved at the time, Big was more popular. Still it’s great that Funny Farm has gotten a cult following because I have yet to meet someone who said they dislike it all these years later.

They were definitely in the minority among major critics regarding that film back then; _Funny Farm_ mostly flopped with reviewers.

I did.

I saw it at the dollar theater!

Both released on the same exact day. June 3rd 1988 was a great day for classic comedies. I just wish Funny Farm was as popular as Big was.

K Doherty but there's a dozen - TWO dozen - funny moments in there!

No they didn't. Either you've always lived in a small town or a big city. Trust me if you are raised in a big city and move to the country Funny Farm will make you laugh... a lot.

@@willcwhite LOL

@@cclark3905 They did give away a lot of the best jokes and I did enjoy the movie - I watched it came out in the cinemas- I never criticized the film - All I said was that a lot of the jokes that I laughed out at, was shown here

“Guess your way to Redbud” 🤣! The drunk mailman, and then the cranky fishing guy he punched that started to strangle Chevy at the fake Christmas celebration 🤣🤣🤣!

@@MirageCA818 Maybe it just takes a certain, sharp sense of humor to appreciate the film? :)

@@canuck_gamer3359 exactly! I grew up in Tennessee so I can appreciate the rural humor more than others!

@@MirageCA818 good man! and I'm from Canada so what's my excuse? Lol

yes it ran out of gas in the last third...George Roy Hill directed the best sports comedy of all time "Slap Shot."

I heartily agree .. I expected to hear Penny Marshal's name too .. TgT

Between 1956 and 1988, not only Oscar winner George Roy Hill has produced and directed some of the best movies were put on his stamp: A Night to Remember, Period of Adjustment, Toys in the Attic, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (AAN, 1970), Slaughterhouse Five, The Sting (AA, 1974), The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, A Little Romance, The World According to Garp, The Little Drummer Girl and finally, Funny Farm...under the Pan Arts banner, George Roy Hill has also developed or financed a few more projects for various filmmakers such as Irvin Kershner, John Badham, Wes Craven, Peter Weir, Harry Hook and finally, Gillian Armstrong. Sadly, he died of Parkinson's disease at his home in New York City in 2002 .

June 3, 1988 would have been a tough day if I were a movie critic and alive at the time because I love both Big and Funny Farm so much.

Rewatching Fletch as an adult it comes off as messy and convoluted

Fletch was an awful movie.

You’ll like it more. It isn’t as good as Vacation, tho. It is a little dry, but it’s well done and worth the watch. I will say that it’s kinda funny listening to Siskel call Funny Farm the best summer comedy that year in the same episode where they review Big, which is one of the all time great family comedies ever made

Same. Haven’t seen it since it came out but I don’t remember it being great. Along side vacation and caddy shack?! But it may be an age thing

Same, I was underwhelmed by it when I rented it, I consider it to be part of Chevy Chase's long weak period

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What a bit!

Another great actor sadly passed away 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😞😞😞😥😥😥😥

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That was the delivery truck drivers not Chevy's character

Last Blood was total shite all the rest are great but a bad way to end it with that well allegedly it was supposed to end with that but of course they are doing at least one more prob just as well need to end it with a better film or maybe should have left it after Rambo 4 really

My favorite movie of his is the first Vacation but Funny Farm was his best acting performance hands down.😊

The original Dundee movie was great, then it just kept getting worse and worse. Much like the First Blood movies (Rambo) and some other notable 80's franchise movies. Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones, etc. All of these were great original scripts intended for a one-and-done type movie, but once they made a huge splash at the box office, they were pressured into sequels. That type of thing almost never works unless the writers are brilliant or had sequels in mind, to begin with.

@@maxxxmodelz4061 correct. The best sequels aside from the James Bond-Jason Bourne or Superhero storylines were Godfather 2 and Terminator 2. I would also add 22 Jump Street which surprised me.

​@@maxxxmodelz4061All the first 4 Rambo films were great until last blood should have stopped at 4 and how can you say the Indiana Jones films weren't great apart from Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull they have been awesome and the new one is supposed to be great yeah Jewel Of The Nile wasn't as good as Romancing The Stone which probably didn't need a sequel and the only good thing about it was the awesome Billy Ocean theme to it When The Going Gets Tough

This is creepy as fuck.

She's got it and so does everyone who needs to provide it. Today, Elizabeth Perkins has now lived in Vermont with her second husband, cinematographer Julio Macat and their children.

I had a total crush on her mainly in this but she has been in quite a few other films! She was also a great actress ❤️👍🏻🔥😘😋

Mostly they were, but Siskel and Ebert have as big a soft spot for cheesy action films as they do a hatred for cheesy horror films

@Jbramson12 the first one has some merit, yes the ex Vietnam vet who's returned home and is now a ticking time was a bit overdone at the time, but it's a fairly restrained movie actually, Rambo doesn't kill a single person in the first one, it's mostly him agaisnt 6 guys for most of it not 600. He's vulnerable in the first movie, and spends a lot of it being chased. He's not an indestructible killing machine but a real human in that first one, he doesn't even pick up a gun until the end.

​@@lw3646Yeah and he wasn't even trying to kill Gault he threw the rock but was just trying to get them to stop shooting so he could get away and everything about the film screams injustice towards the main character he hadn't committed any crime he had fought for his country in the war and that was how he was treated by the so called law especially and as he rightly said they drew first blood not me even in the second one he had a purpose rescuing POWs and the third his rescuing his commanding officer while also helping the Afghans and the fourth the missionaries but also if you remember he was trying to get away from it everytime but was drawn back in so he never wanted to come back and kill but he had no choice but it wasn't mindless killing they really underrated the second and third films and maybe even the fourth but the fifth is shit anyway so who cares what they think about it

Which movie?

Rambo or Crocodile?

He’s right because as S&E said he tried to act different and it worked. Sadly audiences at the time didn’t appreciate it but I think it’s got a cult following now because I ask a lot of people who liked the Vacation movies if they had seen Funny Farm and their response is oh yeah that’s a classic! Like fine wine, it has been more appreciated with age.

I do.

Against the Soviets. The Cold War was still going on at this time.

I think it’s one of those movies you have to let go for a while and revisit later on. As a ten year old I admit I didn’t think it was all that funny. Now it’s some of Chase’s best work ever to me. Try it again in a few years would be my advice.

They didn’t hate it, but they did give it a negative review. They also acknowledged that it was a huge hit and captured the imagination of the country. The review here correctly noted that viewers wouldn’t find it as fun to do the same journey in reverse this time around. They were right

@@monkeyballs512 maybe I was a dumb kid, but I remember liking Croc Dundee 2 when I was little. Probably shouldn't watch it again to ruin that illusion.

@@andrewcutler1380 I won’t say you were dumb of course, but you were a kid. I liked it too back then. I would suggest you don’t watch it again. Watch the original. It was fun. Don’t watch the sequel. It was a steaming turd. And, for God’s sake, never watch the third one

Your memory is failing you badly. I just watched that review. They both loved it. They were gushing over how charming Paul Hogan is and how the movie perfectly mixes societal issues and wholesome values.

​@@andrewcutler1380Yep a poor sequel the original didn't need one anyway and as for the third one total disaster

And it sounded like they liked Vica Versa.

​@@bigbrother8285Vice Versa was a pale comparison to Big

Easy to see why because neither were Chevy Chase fans. But I see where they are coming from. Funny Farm in my opinion is Chase’s best performance. He’s still sarcastic at times but proves he can still act with the right material.

You should've seen Robocop vs Rambo on Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate.

You mean ramble? Probably 🙄

You mean Lambs balls 😂 in some parts of the world thats a delicacy at least he still broke the record but probably had to 🤢🤮 afterwards 😂🤣

You got that right !! TgT

They were right on that im afraid the first is the best by a country mile the second is just copying the first but in reverse 🙄😔

Why dislike Rambo 3?

@@Jbaxter85 4 Was way BETTER!!!

Yeah 4 is great but so is 3

Try the book. There's a reason those old copies on Amazon and eBay cost so much.

@@williamshaw9047 No thanks, movies should stand on their own.

"Funny Farm" is great filmmaking at its best.

@@markelijio6012Totally agree. Vacation 1 is my favorite Chase film but his best acting performance was Funny Farm.

I was anatomically surprised since there weren't called lamb balls.

I thought it was funny actually there had to be some punchline to it because he thought why are they making this out to be so tough what's the deal when he found it so easy 🤔🤨

Well America was helping them fight Russia.

Nah... respectfully disagree, Rambo III has aged very well and is the most underrated film of the series. The movie is pure mythical hero's journey at its finest.

@@coreyc5982 didn't age well in the revelation of who the Taliban came to be as an adversary of the US.

@@DashManNashCam I do see your point, but a lot of people use the Taliban angle to judge the film, I don't. I mean come on, who could've predicted what the Afghani rebels would've become back in 1988. But as I stated, I do see your point. Take care and stay safe.

@@coreyc5982 "Who could've predicted what the Afghani rebels would've become back in 1988"? Literally everyone in the intelligence community. Because these rebels were mostly recruits from the hardline Islamist world, sponsored by hardline religious groups and individuals. By the time US ramped up support for the Mujahideen, Iran already got run over by Islamist hardliners and already posed a threat to the western world. Saudi Arabia also had been supporting a lot of different groups of Islamist groups to fight proxy wars for them against other nationalist movements, and these groups posed threat not only to their local governments, but other countries as well. The gaslighting about how "no one could have predicted it" was just to make the CIA and US/UK governments look less guilty than they really are. The fact was, they used whoever they could get as long as they fought the Russians, they didn't care. Besides the Islamists, the US had no problem supporting thugs and killers and drug cartels in South America to fight left leaning governments and nationalist movements. When CIA dealt with and trained these groups, they were fully aware of the kinds of people they were. The cables obtained by Wikileaks so many years later proved it. Not only did they know who these people were, they actively supported them while fully knowing the ongoing atrocities they were committing, too. And the same happened with the Suharto regime in Indonesia as well in their ethnic cleansing of East Timor. Why are these facts important, you ask? Well, the west is veering towards the same thing again in this new cold war environment. We're again talking about arming potentially extreme and vicious people in the name of fighting Russia. I fully condemn what Putin has done in terms of his atrocities and support efforts to undermine him, but it's important to look at history with clear eyes instead of this "we were so innocent" white washing.

they should’ve just called it farm

I think the movie is hilarious. Not everyone enjoys the same type of humor.

Say the person who thinks Hellraiser movies are watchable

@@woodenturkey One can be wrong about Hellraiser and still be right about Funny Farm not being very funny. Let's face it, Chevy Chase just isn't as funny as his reputation. He's very good at pantomime and over-acting though, the kind that impresses children. He'd be a great guest to a children's party but once you grow up he's just kind of creepy and annoying.

Wrong

What plot? LOL!

@@chipmichaels5197 My thoughts exactly!

PLOT? TgT

Didn't make it any good tho the first one was way better and funnier

Nope.

Where does 'Like Father Like Son' rank?

​@@bigbrother8285Nowhere like Vice Versa just as well add Freaky Friday original and remake to that list

No, that's not true.

Considering it's on a VHS tape from 88 it's actually not too bad

Who Steve Martin 🤣

@@mrbee4life182 Emmy, Grammy and Honorary Oscar Winning Legend. That's Who.