david-sarkies I remember years ago, when I was a pimply faced teenager, that my peers absolutely loved this movie, and a part of me went along with them. I had seen it advertised on the back of a comic book and since it was named after a car, and I wasn't all that interested in cars, I expected that this film was going to be boring and thought no more of it. However, of late it had been sitting at the back of my mind, and I managed to track it down and watch it again, if only for old times sake. Well, in short, it is really, really bad. Basically it is just one long Andrew Dice Clay comedy sketch. I can sort of understand why my peers may have liked the movie, particularly with the number of scantily clad women, and Fairlane's numerous sex jokes (including giving it a name), but sometimes we simply grow out of that phase of life. The other thing was that the acting was pretty atrocious, and really seemed to be stilted at times. Anyway, the film begins with the lead singer of a heavy metal band (which sounds a lot like Van Halen) dies on stage of an alleged drug overdose, while Ford, who happens to be a 'Rock and Roll Detective', in that his clients, and cases, all involve the music industry, is finishing off another case involving a stalker. Anyway, he is approached by an old friend to find a woman that he claims to be his daughter (but in reality is just a groupy), and proceeds to meet an untimely end. This film has all the typical tropes that you would expect from such a film, including the detective who is jealous because he is stuck with his dead-end job while Ford gets into all the cool clubs. However, the jokes end up wearing pretty thin after a while, and the ending has everything wound up quite conveniently, including bringing Ford and the girl that does like him together. Oh, and there is this kid that keeps on popping up, and it is only at the end that you find out why he seems to be always hanging around. As I mentioned, I'd never heard of Andrew Dice Clay before this film, and really didn't think much about him afterwards. It was only after digging up this film from the dusty archives that I realised that they were making a really big deal about the guy. It turned out that he happens to be a stand-up comedian, but since I'd never seen any of his acts, or heard any of his jokes, the name really went over my head. In fact I've noticed that he hasn't seemed to have made all that many other films either. I guess that really says everything about this film, and that it is basically just some crude excuse for a bunch of buys to giggle at jokes that aren't all that funny.

hall895 How much Andrew Dice Clay is too much? After watching this movie it's clear that 104 minutes is way, way, way too much. An "action comedy" with no actual action or comedy The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a miserable failure. No surprise that Clay never starred in another movie after this turkey. This is the type of movie which could kill even a good actor's career. And Clay, as is made painfully clear throughout this movie, is not a good actor. He's basically playing himself and he can't even do that right. His act grows very tired very quickly. Can't think of anything legitimately funny to do? Eh, just toss out the f-word again. Hilarious, right? Nope. This is a movie with an awful script. With the terribly uninteresting story of Clay's Rock n' Roll Detective solving a crime we are never given any reason to care about at all the movie was always doomed to fail. But if the story stinks it's the acting which really makes this an absolutely painful movie-watching experience. Clay is awful, but we could have figured that. But he gets absolutely no help from his eclectic supporting cast. How eclectic? Well there's Freddy Krueger, Al Bundy, Elvis Presley's wife, that incredibly annoying guy who used to voice the insurance duck, Tone Loc, Wayne Newton and a koala bear. Everyone in this group has their awful moments but you haven't experienced true hell until you've been subjected to Al Bundy's Booty Time. That's this movie's worst moment. And that's saying something because this is a movie of nothing but potential worst moments.

Liam wuthrich i love the movie i watch it 20 times threw out the year i was growing up before digital cable became a icon on TV.i love ford fair lane only because he was play a detective in a comedy try to pay his debt to satiate just like and cop on the beat. i alway wondered if he would make a squeal and find another director to make another movie if he could make the time also the actor that played ford fair lane was one of a thousand male or female actor to play the role of good cop bad cop and up hold the law. getting to the point would ford fair lane be able to compete or star as a stand in on law and order s v unit to come and be able to follow a script like Benson and stabler and maybe investigate sex crimes or be there for new york finest and make a difference. anyway i don't remember to much about the movie but i no that close to the end just like new year eve ford fair lane blow es up a building because it was the type of seen they wore shooting for him. anyway i don't no if ford fair lane would go on law and order but maybe one day people will remember him for what he was like when he finish high school and went his own way and took get a job to pay bills and make a living like anybody else in and on this planet earth. also i would like to add i would like if it was possible to get ford fair lane auto graft and share cooking recipe and maybe ask him to be a friend on face-book or twitter.

Mike Drakulich Alright. I know the acting isn't 5 star quality, but really, NOT EVERY FREAKING movie is meant to be Gone With the Wind.Sometimes you have to just have some fun, enjoy a night of laughter, and the enjoy the movie for what it is: Nutty! I'm beyond tired of the PC world we live in today. It's OK to laugh sometimes.I love the dialog in the movie, as well as the one-liners made by Dice. There's plenty of star quality in the movie with Priscilla Pressley, Ed O'Neil, Wayne Newton, Robert Englund, and Lauren Holly, so lets stop acting like the movie was filled with off the street actors. They all knew they were in a fun movie together, and all had fun being in it.So, if you are someone who likes to laugh at silly jokes, one liners, and enjoy crude humor, then this is a movie for you.