Sleevenotes:

Chevy Chase is an air traffic controller down on his luck and un-happy both with his professional and private life. His girl friend walks out on him because of his obsessive jealousy and his bad luck continues when he takes a drive on the New York freeway and is accidentally doused with nuclear waste through the sun roof of his car. But his horror turns to delight when he discovers that he is suddenly possessed of tele-kinetic powers (the ability to move people and objects through the air by thought) and that he can at last get his own back on his romantic and professional rivals. The result is a laugh-a-minute American comedy that ends up at a Victorian beach house looked after by a maid with voodoo tendencies. A crazy, affable and very fast-paced movie starring one of America's top comedy talents of the 80s!

Review:
Chevy Chase gives his most tense performance as the permanently stone(d) faced Max Fielder in this most dire of movies. Ken Shapiro has again (after 'The Groove Tube') given us another movie devoid of ANY jokes or atmosphere. The premise should make for a "crazy, affable and very fast-paced movie" but instead offers no jokes and prohibits Chevy from cracking any kind of joke or facial expression he has become known and loved for. He plays one of the most depressing characters you can imagine and for someone like Chevy this is just so hard to accept. There really is no direction whatsoever in this excruciatingly slow-paced and dour of films. Dabney Coleman tries his best and you feel that there was possibly a funny film somewhere in the origins of this story but it never surfaces. Memorable only for Chevy's "Smells like feet" line this is (correctly) generally acknowledged as the worst film of Chevy's career.

Funniest scenes:
Chevy mincing his way to the toilets in the gay bar. So this is where he rehearsed Ed Harley's dancing.

Making use of his newly found tele-kinetic powers, Chevy causes his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend's nose to bleed uncontrollably all over the restaurant.

Abusing his powers again, Chevy 'balloons' the genitalia of the lead dancer at the ballet.

Darcy experiences sexual ecstasy while Chevy conducts affairs from afar. In a fluffy, sky blue dressing gown.

Chevy doing his Donald Duck impression before snorting up a monster line of 'demon powder'.

Top lines:
Max: "I've got an idea - let's go to your place for dinner tonight."
Lorraine: "Okay, maybe you'll get lucky - I'm horny."
Max: "With my luck I'll pick up herpes on the way over."

Lorraine: "His girlfriend moved out on him yesterday, took everything in the apartment and now she's here with some guy."
Mark: "Well that's fair enough. She wanted it, she took it and he let her. How do you feel about it Max?"
Max: "I don't know er..."
Mark: "See, I would hope you'd come to the healthy conclusion she's a manipulating bitch."

Brian: "You break things. I masturbate. So what - what's the difference?"

Max: "Smells like feet."

Fletch UK Rating: 2 out of 10

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