Nothing But Trouble - It's Not THAT Bad - A Retrospective
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- You either love it or hate it, but I guarantee part of it has also stayed with you. Here's why Nothing But Trouble deserves to be remembered.
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Nothing but Trouble is a 1991 American black comedy horror film directed by Dan Aykroyd in his directorial debut, and written by Aykroyd, based on a story by his brother Peter. Chevy Chase and Demi Moore, John Candy and Aykroyd.
Nothing But Trouble is owned by Warner Bros.
I apparently saw this as a kid and thought it was some bizarre nightmare until I found out later that it actually existed
Same. I saw the Red Letter Media Re:View and was like "Oh shit ! It's that crazy movie I saw."
Me as well. I went through a period of my life where I was convinced that it was some sort of hallucination or some shit.
I'm so glad I'm not alone. It's such a strange fever dream of a movie!
My exact experience too. I described it as the movie with the hot dog train to find it on google last year. I’m pretty sure akryd described it on ROgan last year and it jogged some very vague memories.
I did the exact same thing with freaked, genuinely thought I'd dreamt it and no one believed it was a film 🤣
When you said Dan Aykroyd could have been a great director if he had more chances I started picturing it. Great observation. Even if his ideas don't land for everyone, he's so passionate and creative that he could have made Terry Gilliam type flicks that are funny while also being original.
Hollywood doesn't even want to let ONE Terry Gilliam make his movies, they were never gonna go for another Terry Gilliam.
Dude, this is Dan Aykroyd's masterpiece. He should have been allowed to make more films like this immediately after. It really doesn't deserve the hate it received.
John Candy would have been an awesome Mrs Doubtfire. Maybe the issue with this film is best explained like this. Ahead of its time.
How exactly?
Nah-uh no way!! DGMW, I love the Candy-Man, but Mrs. Doubtfire was TAILOR-MADE for Robin Williams. Tho I do wish the two of them did a film together when they were alive!
This movie had a big impact on me as a kid. I absolutely loved this movie, same with Beetlejuice. This is definitely a classic.
I always loved just how weird this film was. I still quote the line "In an ambulance, got a chance. In a hearse, got to be worse!" I consider it a classic.
I don't remember that line. That's a good one!
Hell yeah 🤣
Me,my brother and sister always liked it.
Forever after that movie, anytime I see a questionable roller coaster, I check to see what it's name is before riding...
Great movie. Completely underrated.
Then rate it higher.
Everything is underrated nowadays
Yes it is specially with John candy and Dan ackroid doing dual rolls
This movie is nothing but trouble.
Completely agree! This is one of my Haloween staples. I love this movie! A complete classic imo.
I saw this when it came out and it made me a much safer driver.
Underrated comment.
Things will never feel like the way they did back in the 80s 90s and even the early 2000s.
This is one of my favorite cringe movies and one that could never be replicated or replaced
Truly a unique flick.
This is one of the movies that sculpted my sense of dark humor when I was a child. A true gem that I even watch decades later. Professional critics are just more opinions that one shouldn't care about.
Really great, even-handed take on this film. I saw this in the theaters when it opened. No one in their right mind could come out of it remotely thinking it was a "good" movie by any stretch, but it's always, as you've stated "stayed with me" and I revisit every so often. Always the same result. Cuts not withstanding, it's just had about half a dozen wrong turns, each of which could have massively improved the result. At it's core concept, I've always felt this movie was the seed of something that could have been if nothing else a phenomenal cult classic.
Release the Aykroyd Cut!!
This is such a criminally underrated movie.
You better not be a criminal or a banker in the movie.
"How about a nice Hawaiian Punch?" Well, I guess me and my friends are part of that small cult following. Lots of quoting from the movie. We'll probably still quote it in the future. I've had the same DVD since around 2001. "Fix yourself up a couple of dogs!"
"This is how I like to have my dogs and I suggest you have them the same way"
@@jesseswarbrick7895 Been ringing through my head for nearly 30 years!
Totally agree with the review. A horror comedy was rarely done with such a talented cast back then.
Great movie that deserves a blu-ray release with special features for sure.
There's one coming out October 26 from Shout Factory
nah, straight to 16K
This is one of my favorite movies! I cant believe it was not liked by more by what theyre saying on this. Hell there was no other movies that had these stats and even had a cameo by Humpty and Tupac Shakur in it!
I loved this movie when i was a kid! thank you so much for making this video and reminding me this exists!
Aweee. Ackroyd is adorable in those interviews. You can tell he's nervous. Go look at him in his Crystal Skull Vodka ads and see the difference.
Correction: If you just randomly watch this movie with no context, it's one of the bar none most astoundingly unwatchable shit piles of celluloid ever made by a major studio. But if you watch it knowing the full backstory behind it's making.....it's still all those things, but, absolutely fascinating at the same time.
I watched this movie a ton of times throughout my life with absolutely no context. I found it very watchable because it is a bizarre inspired and unique movie with a bunch of quotable lines.
@@djangofett4879Hey, like what you like. That being said, It's not good just cause you personally like it. By general consensus, NBT is a terrible movie. If anything I'm ready to defend it cause it's at least terribly fascinating as long as you keep it's production history in mind.
I love this movie - great humor, and I think this was when I first heard about Centralia, and the mine fires that have been burning underground since 1962 -
Never could tell whether or not I loved or hated this movie, but one thing is certain, the concept of Nothing But Trouble is pure brilliance.
I always fell asleep watching Beetlejuice in the 90's (in fact, i never finished that movie ever), but when this movie randomly apeared on TV, i never left the screen.
Have loved this movie since I was a kid. So strange but awesome.
This was on cable 5 times a day back in the day and we would watch it often while frying. Was a HOLE(shout out demi) different movie in that state of mind.
I grew up on this movie, my grandma would play it for us all the time, so I’m biased but I love it
I like the judges wig that still makes him look bald. It's the little things that made this movie great.
Took off his nose and started crooning like Bing Crosby.
Perfect
I love this movie! Guilty pleasure I guess. It also has some nostalgia for me.
"who was once the queen of Mardi Gras" Ha! i never caught that as a kid.
I remember as a kid seeing the trailer for Nothing But Trouble and wanting to see it, but couldn’t remember the title. I eventually got a copy of Haunted Honeymoon and had some confusion between the two, possibly because of John Candy and Dom Deluise’s similar roles. I eventually figured out that they were separate films, though unsure if they were related, but could never remember the title when I got the the video store, so I never got to see this. I am finally watching it on TH-cam right now.
Ive always loved this movie
Dang how many lines did Ack do before that Arsenio interview
7.
@@Gatorade69 seems about right
I was trying to remember the name of this movie a couple months ago. It was such a weird movie. I loved it.
I remember it being a really fun movie. I'll have to give it another watch and see how well it aged
I can't believe we actually used to listen to these guys about movies
I lost my collective 💩 the first time that I had seen it and purchased a vhs copy. I actually enjoyed it so much that I purchased a copy on dvd when I found it available …
It just may be the strangest movie ever made… I remember wanting to like it more than I did. Then I rented it…same reaction. Now decades later I love it. L O V E it
I think I saw bits of this as a kid...
My kind of film.
Grossly beautiful!!!
"You fed a baby chilli?!" Lady from Mr Mom is in this.
Covering all the movies that Comedy Central would show ad nauseam in the mid to late 1990s. Doing god's work!
This movie gave me a long seated fear of machinery! That Mr. Bone Striper thing was scary... and I was 7!
14:30 great scene, brother rescues his sister, cool and the action starts
I loooove this movie.
Not seen it but just read it’s being prepped for blu ray - I had only heard of this film as Madonna was in the soundtrack with a song called get over which she did with shep pettibone (vogue ) and it was a duet with nick Scotti
Forgot all about this movie I watched it when I was a kid
this movie traumatized me for most of my childhood...
I would watch it again,
I was a kid when i watched this and it stuck with me forever and idky lol. Id love to see it again but ive never seen it on netflix or hulu etc. It was a lil scary as a kid i must say. The judge scared the hell out of me. Just his face hahaha.
OMG, I never connected the hot dog thing.
Loved this movie
One of my Fav movies! Ackroyd and Candy! comic geniuses! Cult classic now! Bottom line, Movies are meant to entertain! And this movie Entertains!
Psychicpebbles from Smiling Friends brought me here
I loved this movie
I was just thinking of this one the other day....
I love this movie
Love this movie
I loved it..
Damn Yankees' Bonestripper, from the movie soundtrack, just played on my Pandora
I own it and is my forever favorite movie 💚
i remember the first time i saw this movie, i was confused and in love.
OMG this is one of my favorite movies from my childhood. The guy trying to eat the hot dog was and still is hilarious as fuck.
The hot dog scene is legendary
mom bought it long ago i watched it more than once being a child :D
I have the exact same DVD version that you do.
I just watched this movie on HBO Max. I think it would have been better as a full out horror movie, but it I still really enjoyed it.
I saw bits of it on cable when I was a kid but could never remember the name.
I only remember seeing parts of this film as kid, but it scared the crap out of me for some reason. Lol I was very intrigued by the star studded cast and chaotic weirdness but frightened by the makeup and grossness lol
Awesome movie!
GoodBadFlicks has a great in-depth video on this as well.
The difference being that Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was genuinely funny. This movie was never anything other than a train wreck. When John Landis tells you that he doesn't get it, you really should listen.
I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking it was just something I made up for years because I couldn’t imagine it being real
I was four years old when I first saw it, one of the earliest movies I saw.....it was definitely like a nightmare came to life on screen. Then I saw it again years later on Comedy Central and was like, "oh yeah, this really happened"
Me too! I think I must have caught part of it on tv, because Dan Aykroyd's prosthetic makeup haunted my nightmares for years
I had this same thing happen to me with the movie "Saturday the 14th". I saw it once when I was 6, and then again when I was 32. I remember being like, "oh shit it was real".
I seen it multiple times as a kid and didn't know the name for years, hunted it down later on. Still love it.
Same. It traumatized me.
Love this movie
I love this movie. I was a freshman in high school when it came out on vhs; my girlfriend at the time’s parents owned a convenience store/movie rental place & their house was directly attached to it. So we could watch whatever the latest movie was. I remember watching this & both of us being like “what the hell did we just see?”
This movie was on loop on HBO in the early 90s. Good times.
Yes! And don't tell mom the babysitters dead and troll 2
Throw in some My Cousin Vinny and Rookie of the year too
I miss those days 👍
HAHA WHEN WE COULD AFFORD IT! I also remember Jason goes to Hell as well around that time.
Tales From the Crypt then Dream On
Dan Akroyd needs to release a director's cut of "Valkynvania"
I want to see his original vision since apparently they gave him carte blanche and did whatever he wanted... Until it was released and then cut most of the gore.
#ReleasetheAkroydCut
Yeah we just won’t survive without a directors cut of this movie.
It will become the new Superman Richard Donner version.
When asked to contribute to a documentary about NBT Akroyd told them, ‘There are much better uses of your time and I encourage you to make better choices in the future.”
@@TuckerLeeC but Dan we actually like it
Dan Aykroyd has acted in/ wrote some of the strangest comedies ever. His weird disposition makes his works shine. This, Dr. Detroit, Neighbors, Coneheads, My Stepmother's An Alien, etc..A unique talent. For lovers of the strange in comedy.
This drops right after I heard about Shock G's death. How weird.
Thanks, for getting his name right, Dan. :)
Right? Just read about Shock G, came onto TH-cam and this was the first thing that came up.
@@rubysuncle same here.
Man rip shock g
@@the44118 nah its just a weird coincidence, I think YOU killed him
Watching this just makes me think of Alex Winters 'Freaked' (1993). Now THATS obscure comedy at its best
That movie will stick with you if you let it into your heart your heart your heart.
Thats a film ive always wanted to see prob 10 years. but it's out of print & going online for ridiculous prices
That’s also an amazing film
It’s waaaay funnier than this too
@@darrinfromvault801
I’m very glad I kept all my old cassettes, CDs, DVDs, and in some cases, VHS, Beta, and vinyl. all the stuff that has gone digital is being censored, edited, or otherwise “cancelled” so it’s nice to have analog/hard copies of that stuff.
And, when I consider the direction at which the world is headed and the rate that things are going, I suspect that within 20 year’s time, all of the movies, films, books, etc... that we grew up with will be considered verboten by “the state.”
(actually, “20 years time” might be a generous time frame)
For years I thought I dreamed this movie. When I was running a high fever and trashed on cold medicine. I guess It's real. Huh.
Same!!
Forgot about this as well I think it traumatized me a 10yr
Same! The only thing I could remember was the sausage scene and someone coming down a slide into a pile of bones. Its frusterating when you cant remember the title or who was in it.
@@Aaron-pp5dn It looks like a 10 year old's idea of hell.
Sooo weird! Same here
This movie proved Dan Aykroyds and John Candys character range.
Old and fat?
Thinking of the families of Digital Underground members who were proudly taken to see this movie for their scene.
RIP 2PAC & SHOCK G!!!
Pac!!!
Realest comment on this post. Salute!
I absolutely loved this movie as a kid... it was crazy wierd and visually nauseating but so much fun to watch. It took real balls to make this... luckily Akroyd had a low hanging set.
i was more "what the fuck did i just watch" kind of reaction as a kid
You Shouldn't Watching This As A Kid.
@@kyotheman69 well i saw the clips in this video and i got to say that was weird i like it
I remember my parents renting it on VHS when I was a kid. We all sat down to watch it and within 10 min they were like "NOPE! Not for you, go to your rooms and play!". Of course, we kids pitched a fit. Haven't seen it since. Will have to check it out.
Similar events played out for my sister and I, but my parents didn't care so much and it became one of those movies I'd watch when it would come on hbo or whatever, but it's just weird.. funny, disturbing, and weird.
That sucks, what happened in the first 10 minutes that couldn't be tolerated? I'm glad my parents never sucked like that..
Sounds like your parents had taste. You may not realize it, but they were actually doing you a favor.
that sucks man i watched this all the freaking time on hbo as a kid.it was on constantly.
@@MrPGC137 not letting your kids decide what they like on their own sounds like something people that question others (tatse) do.
Underrated movie, the scenes with Digital Underground were so damn good
I completely forgot they were in the movie, I watched it tonight and humpty hump and tupac showed up out of nowhere lol
This movie traumatized me as a child, & I've only remembered it in nightmarish flashes. I thought it might've been something I made up, but seeing this in my recommendeds... My heart dropped and pulse raced IMMEDIATELY lmao, & all those nightmares came back!! Hopefully watching this will erase them!!
Literally me too! I thought the hot dog scene was from The 'Burbs but when I watched it again it wasn't there so I assumed I imagined it
This movie looks exactly what you think you'd get when you leave Aykroyd alone with a typewriter, a terrifyingly huge pile of cocaine, and no one around to stop him. I need to check it out
Its great
This is probably what Ghostbusters would've been like if he wasn't put in check. This is Aykroyd where no one stops him.
@@RichV20 yep. I watched a documentary on Ghostbusters, and his initial ideas for the film were NOTHING like the film we eventually got.
Was he still on coke at that point? I thought he quit.
@@darkhearsttoys5224 I'm not sure. I thought he was still going at least until Candy died. If this movie wasn't drug-fueled, imagine what it would be like if it was!
One thing people can't deny about this movie, it's not boring. If boring is the worst thing a movie can be, then this movie is most certainly not boring.
I agree. It is far too entertaining to be boring.
It honestly might be the least boring movie ever made.
It's maybe the least entertaining movie I've seen. Interesting yes, entertaining no. It could've been cut down to a really good 20 minute short film without losing anything.
The reason I think the film is boring is because the film seems bored with itself. It was clear that Aykroyd was more interested in the characters played by himself and Candy but that doesn't mean that you skimp on the parts of the story not involving them but that seems to be what happens.
@@DiabloSandwich59 yeah the characters become 2 dimensional verrrrry quickly upon entering Valkenvania. I like the movie personally but I think this movie needed a longer cut and better written protagonists. The Brazilians were so pointless and flat and should have been written into the whole script imo because once they leave, the leads become background characters.
I'm shocked Dan Aykroyd got nominated for a Razzie for his performance because his performance is actually really good in this movie lol
"He made nothing but trouble, and it was called "Nothing But Trouble". - Rich Evans
If Shout Factory rereleased it on Blu-Ray, they should seriously consider putting that quote by Rich on the box
HOW EMBARRASSING
@@DwRockett I'm surprised they haven gotten a hold of some of those that needs remastering. Like this, Last Boy Scout and Mortal Kombat
*Snip-Snap Clap*
"Hey-Hey!!"
--Jack Packard
I clapped because I know that!
This was a movie I saw ONE TIME EVER when I was a kid and it disappeared from reality, to the point where it became one of those distant memories that felt more like a dream. Then it finally got reaired on cable in, like, 2009 and it blew my mind that it was actually a real movie.
You perfectly captured my exact thought.
This and “ Funny Farm” are just incredible movies!
Rocky Mountain oysters
@@TheKkkeeennnnnnyyy Lamb Fries. The trick is, you have to clip them real high.
I hope you do a look back at Stay Tuned. An overlooked comedy where John Ritter and his character's wife get sucked into a TV hell.
That is another fun movie!
Yes! I loved that one - the 3's Company bit always cracked me up
Literally just saw this movie for the first time a few weeks ago, after hearing years of horrible things, I must confess I quite enjoyed it. Though Chevy Chase was pretty wasted in it. He's not very good being the straight man.
@Larry Bundy Jr
I have heard that Chevy Chase has a reputation of being an unpleasant individual when it comes to working on films. And his performance in the film shows.
Larry!!!!! So weird just randomly seeing you in the comments! Love your videos 🙌🏻❤️
@@dexterdouglas
He came here to party, to get naughty, get his rocks off, and eat popcorn.
Chase was honestly the weakest part of the film. From what I heard it was Warner Bros who wanted him in not Aykroyd.
I'm totally shocked that an online critic would be so out of the loop. LOL :)
I remember seeing this in the theater with my family. I LOVED every moment of it and was shocked to discover my family absolutely hated it. Thanks for giving this misunderstood masterpiece the credit it deserves.
"Come on, death for running a stop sign?"
"And for being a banker! That's the double death!"
based
@@Durmomo0
Antiseptic
Mister Bonestripper is so metal, it even kills dead dudes.
My twin brother and I watched this with our older siblings when we were kids. It creeped us out a bit at first, but we loved/still love it. “The Addams Family meets Tales From The Crypt”.
Ah, those early, EARLY Warner DVD releases, where they packed them in cardboard and every menu was just a giant Warner logo. Reminds me of Blade Runner. haha
I was in Hollywood when this came out visiting relatives, so I decided I'd make this my movie to see in the famous Grauman's Chinese Theatre. I wasn't blown away by it, but didn't think it was that bad, either. As I recall, I saw an afternoon show on a weekday but it was still in its first couple of weeks of release. Even so, there were maybe four other people there at the same time. I'd be interested in seeing outtakes or extended/cut scenes if any existed.