
A financier agrees to take a lawyer to her business meeting. On the way, they run a stop sign in a small town in the middle of nowhere and are arrested. But the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby-traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre family make up the rest of this unusual film.... (Full plot summary below)
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A financier agrees to take a lawyer to her business meeting. On the way, they run a stop sign in a small town in the middle of nowhere and are arrested. But the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby-traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre family make up the rest of this unusual film.
Leave your thoughts about Nothing but Trouble.
| The Seattle TimesMichael UpchurchA charmless feature-length joke about the world's most elaborate speed trap. |
| Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertUnfortunately this isn't even half as fun as the shortest bumper-car ride, with the cast lost in a sea of unfunny situations and badly executed antique jokes on loan from The Munsters all obviously puzzled about why they are actually there. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerMaybe the whole project should have been junked from the get-go. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarThroughout the movie, there are occasional "joke" lines, most of which are pretty lame but at least they establish that this is all intended as comedy. For the most part, however, the humor depends upon the audience's finding the movie's repulsiveness funny. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonNothing but Trouble, which distinguishes itself by being Dan Aykroyd's directorial debut and in no other way, certainly lives up to its name. But you could go far beyond that -- it's nothing but trouble and agony and pain and suffering and obnoxious, toxically unfunny bad taste. It's nothing but miserable. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinNo matter how much care and thought went into it it's still disgusting and pointless. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMost of the jokes are so lame that Chevy Chase can’t even be bothered to look nonchalant. A sadder excuse for a movie would be hard to imagine. |
| User ReviewDaviscdA wonderful 90s comedy with Aykroyd, Candy, and Chase bringing the laughs. |
| User ReviewGreg WFar from their best, but always enjoyable seeing the great duo together, this time saving a visiting young king from a covert assassination attempt, while trying to prove worthy of their ancestors' butler and chef heritage. The climax in which the three heroes are endangered is quite good. |
| User ReviewicotzabbHad it come out some years later, it would have been more well received. And yes there are some pretty low points and embarrassing moments like Chevy' performance, but overall its pretty unique and bizarre. Plus the sets and prosthetics are pretty darn good. I just cant hate the movie. |