quridley The rare Dan Aykroyd-driven film. It's a simple SNL-type premise: The Nutty Professor but with pimps. But Aykroyd ensures it's classy, lively and good spirited. It's low on big laughs or clever gags but it's very watchable for the excellent casting, soundtrack and a few rewarding scenes including a clear ode to The a Blues Brothers. If only it was directed by a more comedy-inclined filmmaker.

FlashCallahan Clifford Skridlow teaches at a small Chicago college run by his father. Conned into managing four prostitutes by their pimp, who skips town to escape the mob boss known as Mom, Clifford draws on his course in medieval literature in his quest to save the women from Mom....Made on the success of The Blues Brothers, and in some respects, a kind of tribute to Mr Belushi, DD is an odd little film, and to think that the makers thought this would have been a box office smash.The problem lies within the writing. It's too immature for adult audiences, but too adult orientated for children. If it was about a toy maker coming up with ideas that a rival maker steals, this would have been a bonafide classic, but as soon as pimps are involved, it just goes to pot, and the sincerity of it all just goes away.Not to say that it isn't fun though. Aykroyd is wonderful as the smutty Bruce Wayne, and you can hear Coneheads whenever he turns into the titular character, and its as predictable as you could imagine.Hilarious confrontations between street people and the upper classes, and the. Out random appearance from James Brown.Its nothing special, but I'm an aficionado of the eighties, and until last week I'd never heard of this.If you like this era, it's well worth watching, its fun, has a great soundtrack, but maybe just a little too leftfield for its time...

madmanmarkd I remember seeing this movie on VHS while I worked at a video rental store in the 80's. I thought it was a funny campy movie but Hey! I like these kind of movies now and then. I always like Dan Akroyd movies so it didn't matter if this was not up to snuff with the likes of Ghostbusters or Blues Brothers. It was hard to believe he made that film then. I recently acquired this movie on laserdisc just about a week ago. I had not seen the movie since the 80's. I since taped over my VHS dub many years ago. It was great to sit down and have a few laughs and once again see the 'Doctor' in action. The picture is clean with only a few spots and scratches. The sound is only analog and not digital but delivers very surprising and powerful for an older movie. It's a fun film never the less. Yeah! it was no box office smash or a great comedy or action film, but there's just something about these lesser movies that brings you back to a better time. Dan does a great job even with the film's downfalls. Hey he got a great wife out of the deal marrying Donna Dixon from the film! It falls in the category with the likes of 'Howard the Duck'. Both were box office failures but there are still those devoted fans out there still searching for these 'gems' everyday. So for me the 'Doctor' is always 'in' my movie collection.

maitlandst The best thing that can be said about Doctor Detroit is that it has a very fun cast that try their hardest to work off each other and make the most of what is an otherwise appallingly unfunny piece of campy schlock. Most of the blame should probably go to director Pressman who doesn't even bother staging a joke throughout the whole movie.