THE PLOT THUS FAR
Hilarious performances by Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman make this comedy a “good old, knockdown slapstick” (The Hollywood Reporter)! It sounded like a great weekend away at their boss Bernie’s beachside pleasure palace. But when working stiffs Richard and Larry (McCarthy and Silverman) arrive to find a real stiff – their murdered boss – they’re forced to concoct a crazy scheme to avoid being implicated and/or dead themselves! With Bernie propped up and his death effectively covered up, Richard and Larry’s weekend escape becomes exactly that, as they dodge curious babes, a curtain of bullets and one confused hit man!
WHAT WE THOUGHT
“Weekend at Bernie’s” made corpses fun again. The film is about two dumbasses working for their hero boss who has running a con on his company. Unfortunately, the mob bumps off the boss and now the morons feel that they have to keep the guy alive. They limbo, they hit the beach and they get a girl to start flirting with a dead man. Who said that you can’t have fun with the non-breathing boss of your dreams. I miss scripts that were obviously written in a cocaine powered fury.
Andrew McCarthy has gone on to directing TV episodes and Jonathan Silverman vanished like a candle in the wind. But, Terry Kiser lives on in the magic of the dead man that had to die to learn how to party. If you only know Kiser from “Friday the 13th Part VII – The New Blood”, then you’re missing out. There’s a new comedic element on the scene and this element is limp. Seriously, what the hell ever happened to Jonathan Silverman?
The Blu-Ray comes with no special features. The A/V Quality is pretty strong. The transfer is a solid 1080p mix that looks like it was used on cable. The DTS-HD 2.0 master audio track sounds like a movie made in the late 1980s. If you’re not expecting much, then pick it up.
RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW!