The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful.
A psychologist, knowing that the girl has bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with matching bad luck, to find her.
Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the lucky girl...
During the early nineties, Hollywood had a thing about releasing averagely high concept comedies featuring b-list actors who have appeared in very successful films a few years prior to this, hoping that fans of the more successful films would think 'oooo, I liked him in that film with the more successful actor, let's give this a go'
Rarely were the films successful. They made a moderate box office in the states, but here in the UK, Universal video released them under a 'video Premiere' moniker. Which basically meant 'it's good, but it's not good enough to be shown at the cinema'.
Other titles like this included The Super, Captain Ron, Clean Slate, and any film with Sinbad in a starring role.
These films are in a league of their own, made at a time when studios would give five picture contracts to stars, because they had supporting roles in really successful films, followed by taking the lead role in a surprise sleeper hit.
An obscure example is Joe Pesci. He's a fantastic actor, but after the double whammy of Home Alone and My Cousin Vinny, he starred in films that were very out of character for him.
Remember the aforementioned The Super, Jimmy Hollywood, With Honors, and Gone Fishin'? Thought not, but the video shop always had a copy of them ready to rent.
Pure Luck is nothing more than Short falling over, hurting himself, and thinking he's in charge, whilst Glover plays the straight man and rolling his eyes every now and again.
In a luxurious setting. All the 'funny' parts were in the trailer, see Short in a fat suit, see Short fall down some stairs, see Glover stand there and look up to the sky, because his straight man levels out the comedy between them......
It's not a terrible film, it's highly watchable.
But just a little lazy.
A psychologist, knowing that the girl has bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with matching bad luck, to find her.
Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the lucky girl...
During the early nineties, Hollywood had a thing about releasing averagely high concept comedies featuring b-list actors who have appeared in very successful films a few years prior to this, hoping that fans of the more successful films would think 'oooo, I liked him in that film with the more successful actor, let's give this a go'
Rarely were the films successful. They made a moderate box office in the states, but here in the UK, Universal video released them under a 'video Premiere' moniker. Which basically meant 'it's good, but it's not good enough to be shown at the cinema'.
Other titles like this included The Super, Captain Ron, Clean Slate, and any film with Sinbad in a starring role.
These films are in a league of their own, made at a time when studios would give five picture contracts to stars, because they had supporting roles in really successful films, followed by taking the lead role in a surprise sleeper hit.
An obscure example is Joe Pesci. He's a fantastic actor, but after the double whammy of Home Alone and My Cousin Vinny, he starred in films that were very out of character for him.
Remember the aforementioned The Super, Jimmy Hollywood, With Honors, and Gone Fishin'? Thought not, but the video shop always had a copy of them ready to rent.
Pure Luck is nothing more than Short falling over, hurting himself, and thinking he's in charge, whilst Glover plays the straight man and rolling his eyes every now and again.
In a luxurious setting. All the 'funny' parts were in the trailer, see Short in a fat suit, see Short fall down some stairs, see Glover stand there and look up to the sky, because his straight man levels out the comedy between them......
It's not a terrible film, it's highly watchable.
But just a little lazy.