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Too Much Sun [VHS]

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I really enjoyed this movie when I saw it years ago. I was looking to buy the DVD version only to find it is only available on VHS and I already have my old copy. If I can state it is a Gay Comedy then people will know what they are getting. Some of the comedy is outrages and some subtle. Definitely want to pull out that old VHS to see it again!

This is a film that falls in to a category of it's own, one might find it slow and a bit lame, but this is not a mainstream comedy and is not for those looking for slapstick or Jim carrey, it has both physical and verbal humor that is of such class that I've seen it over and over again. Together with the rest of the cast Robert Downey jr and Ralph Macchio are hysterical.

Another chance to see father and son Downeys in a scrappy little comedy about an old man's will. Whoever begets an heir will inherit everything. But both daughter and son are gay. The daughter locates a young man (Downey Jr) who might actually be her son, and brings him into the fold. He and his pal Ralph Macchio are con men and this new "con" is made to order. Downey Sr directs, Downey Jr stars, and a rare chance to see Downey Sr's late wife and creative partner Laura Ernst as the daughter's girl friend. Downey Jr sings the title song which runs under the final credits. Vintage Downey.

Pure silliness with bad sight gags and numbing dialogue describes this ridiculous romp in spaced-out L.A. in the early '90's.Some might laugh,but all in all this is one positively witless "comedy".It truly doesnot even deserve a plot synopsis it is that bad!Produced ,written and directed by Robert Downey and showcasing his then young son RD Jr,along with Laura Ernst(also one of the writers),Andrea Martin(who certainly scores bigger years later in MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING!),Eric Idle and Leo Rossi, this film looks as though it was meant to scoff at the "sun-and-fun Richie Riches " of Los Angeles,but what is accomplished is just plain beyond DUMB!

Robert Downey, Sr.-directed movies are not for everyone -- the production is rather cheap, the ideas are sometimes small and simple compared to those of the usual Hollywood film -- but he does let his actors go to town. Oddly, the prostitute and Robert Downey, Jr.'s character are the only ones with any sense of reality, and that's only relatively speaking.

This was a great movie. A little of the strange comedy, if you like that. Very, very funny.

It's hard to imagine how a movie this bad could have been made. To see talents like Andrea Martin and Eric Idle wasted is bad enough, but to have to watch Robert Downey turn his Ham-it-up dial up and up again is sickening. Should be airdropped into Iraq instead of bombs.

How bad is this movie? It is out of print at a time when Columbia/Tristar is re-releasing everything on DVD. It is just plain horrid horrid horrid.