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Armed & Dangerous
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by Sony Pictures
Sales Rank: 322
Price: $9.98
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Perhaps <I>Stripes</I> and <I>Caddyshack</I> screenwriter Harold Ramis and <I>Commando</I> director Mark Lester were not an ideal collaborative team. But while this 1986 misfit comedy is something of a misfire, <I>SCTV</I> fans can take heart in watching John Candy and Eugene Levy triumph over weak material as mismatched security guards who stumble upon mob corruption. Candy, in particular, does wonders with a role that in lesser hands would have been a mere "fatty falls down" stereotype. He plays a cynical disgraced cop who takes Levy's cowardly former lawyer under his wing ("Stick with me, I'll keep you out of trouble," he reassures him). Like Ramis's character in <I>Stripes</I>, Levy rises to the occasion under fire, and even gets the girl--Meg Ryan in early ingénue mode, trying out the fetching grins and ingratiating smiles that would make her America's sweetheart three years later in <I>When Harry Met Sally</I>. <I>--Donald Liebenson</I>
Viewer Reviews
John Candy was one of the funniest actors of all time. What a shame that his life was cut so short. There are no comedies like this one and all his others (Uncle Buck, Only the Lonely, Cool Runnings and so on) How lucky we are to have been entertained by him.
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