**Quote Spoilers Ahead** Oh man, what can I say? Chevy Chase has some of the best deadpan oneliner deliveries of his career in this hilarious comedy about the shenanigans of investigative reporter Irwin M. Fletcher, alias "Fletch F. Fletch", "Nugent; Ted Nugent", "Dr. Rosen-rosen, Rosen-penis", "Igor Stravinsky","G. Gordon Liddy" Etc. Etc!!
I love how Chase's character plays off of such character actors as Joe Don Baker, George Wendt, and M. Emmett Walsh. The they are excellent foils for Chevy Chase's very funny and sometimes subtle jokes and insults!
Some highlights of the film are the physical exam scene (Fletch refers to Walsh's character as "Dr. Jellyfinger"!-Priceless!), The country club scene with such lines as " Yes, very good; I'll have the steak sandwich and... a steak Stanwyk." And no one should miss the chase sequence thru the streets of LA in a 'borrowed' Alfa Romeo Spyder! "Just gotta check the fluorocarbon output!","Hey Fred! How's the herpes? Does it hurt?". Which leads up to the improvised speech Fletch gives in tribute to "Fred 'the Dorf' Dorfmann", the father of "Internal Bushings"... "No more alcohol and sedatives in her life." So much is going on here, that repeated viewings are definitely recommended by this reviewer to catch all the asides and little moments to be had in this film! I also split my sides during the autopsy sequence. "Have you ever seen a spleen this large?"-"Not since breakfast."
All in all, lots of action, general hamminess and a very good supporting cast making this one a keeper for anyone's movie collection! Highly recommended for comedy fans and a must see. One of the best examples of this type of humor!
"It's all ball bearings these days!""You and Tommy LaSorda?...I hate Tommy LaSorda!""I feel like a hundred dollars.""Nice garage. Must've cost hundreds.""...I saw the bright red Oldsmobuick of Mr. Arnold T. Pants, Esq. Attorney at Law.""Get me some gauze pads and 30-weight for that fetzer valve... and clean those windows, they have filth and muck on them!""Does this entail me dressing up as 'Little Bo-Peep'?"
Very Quotable... I give it an 8.8/10.
I love how Chase's character plays off of such character actors as Joe Don Baker, George Wendt, and M. Emmett Walsh. The they are excellent foils for Chevy Chase's very funny and sometimes subtle jokes and insults!
Some highlights of the film are the physical exam scene (Fletch refers to Walsh's character as "Dr. Jellyfinger"!-Priceless!), The country club scene with such lines as " Yes, very good; I'll have the steak sandwich and... a steak Stanwyk." And no one should miss the chase sequence thru the streets of LA in a 'borrowed' Alfa Romeo Spyder! "Just gotta check the fluorocarbon output!","Hey Fred! How's the herpes? Does it hurt?". Which leads up to the improvised speech Fletch gives in tribute to "Fred 'the Dorf' Dorfmann", the father of "Internal Bushings"... "No more alcohol and sedatives in her life." So much is going on here, that repeated viewings are definitely recommended by this reviewer to catch all the asides and little moments to be had in this film! I also split my sides during the autopsy sequence. "Have you ever seen a spleen this large?"-"Not since breakfast."
All in all, lots of action, general hamminess and a very good supporting cast making this one a keeper for anyone's movie collection! Highly recommended for comedy fans and a must see. One of the best examples of this type of humor!
"It's all ball bearings these days!""You and Tommy LaSorda?...I hate Tommy LaSorda!""I feel like a hundred dollars.""Nice garage. Must've cost hundreds.""...I saw the bright red Oldsmobuick of Mr. Arnold T. Pants, Esq. Attorney at Law.""Get me some gauze pads and 30-weight for that fetzer valve... and clean those windows, they have filth and muck on them!""Does this entail me dressing up as 'Little Bo-Peep'?"
Very Quotable... I give it an 8.8/10.