Weekend at Bernie's (1 & 2)
WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S (15)
D: Ted Kotcheff
20th Century Fox/Gladden (Victor Drai)
US 1989
99 mins
Comedy
W: Robert Klane
DP: François Protat
Ed: Joan E. Chapman
Mus: Andy Summers
Andrew McCarthy (Larry Wilson), Jonathan Silverman
(Richard Parker), Catherine Mary Stewart (Gwen Saunders), Terry Kiser (Bernie Lomax), Don Calfa (Paulie), Catherine Parks (Tina)
Two yuppie executives visit their bosses beach house
and discover his murdered body. Fearing they will be blamed, they pretend that he is still alive and organise a party.
This stupid black farce is something which could only
have been acceptable in the 1980's, with a level of Ferris Bueller-like cheese, it's moderately enjoyable and did quite well financially. This doesn't change the fact that it's still
quite terrible.
4/10
WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S II (12)
D: Robert Klane
Warner Bros. (Victor Drai)
US 1993
97 mins
Comedy
W: Robert Klane
DP: Edward Morey III
Ed: Peck Prior
Mus: Peter Wolf
Andrew McCarthy (Larry Wilson), Jonathan Silverman
(Richard Parker), Terry Kiser (Bernie Lomax), Troy Beyer (Claudia), Barry Bostwick (Arthur Hummel)
Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman reprise their
roles as two geeky executives whose boss has risen from the dead via a voodoo curse which only seems to work whenever calypso music is playing.
The first film was no classic, but made enough money
for producers to think a sequel was merited, even though nobody else did. It's practically inevitable that it would be a terrible cash-in.
2/10
