Joe's a car salesman with a problem. He has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job.
This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
What more could go wrong ? Enter a crazy jealous husband with a machine gun..
You would expect a film with Williams as a car salesman to be a zip zip one liner-thon, and while some of the film is very funny, it can lose itself within the confined setting and silly sub-plots.
Williams is as watchable as ever, but this time, he is more of an anti-hero, as far away from Mork as you could imagine, but it makes the dark in this black comedy all the more delicious.
Robbins and Williams have great chemistry together, and whenever they are on screen together, its unmissable stuff.
Sadly, when the films narration turns to the girlfriends and the police, it becomes a chore, and the film has to rely on the comedy Chinese waitress for laughs.
It's good for what it is, yuppie satire, but too many sub-plots have slightly spoiled the comedic broth.
This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
What more could go wrong ? Enter a crazy jealous husband with a machine gun..
You would expect a film with Williams as a car salesman to be a zip zip one liner-thon, and while some of the film is very funny, it can lose itself within the confined setting and silly sub-plots.
Williams is as watchable as ever, but this time, he is more of an anti-hero, as far away from Mork as you could imagine, but it makes the dark in this black comedy all the more delicious.
Robbins and Williams have great chemistry together, and whenever they are on screen together, its unmissable stuff.
Sadly, when the films narration turns to the girlfriends and the police, it becomes a chore, and the film has to rely on the comedy Chinese waitress for laughs.
It's good for what it is, yuppie satire, but too many sub-plots have slightly spoiled the comedic broth.