Gone Fishin'

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Gone Fishin' has been called "the Ishtar of the '90s," but that's giving it too much credit. Danny Glover and Joe Pesci (who could have used their Lethal Weapon series buddy Mel Gibson in here) star as slow-witted friends who take their dream fishing vacation in the Florida Everglades and end up having a series of disasters. Trouble is, director Christopher Cain can't get a handle on any of the comedy essentials for a project such as this. The result is a badly timed, badly toned, unfunny movie wasting a lot of great talent across the board. --Tom Keogh

Description

This hilarious hit stars Danny Glover (LETHAL WEAPON series) and Joe Pesci (MY COUSIN VINNY, LETHAL WEAPON II & III) as the funniest fishermen ever to throw out a line! Best buddies Gus (Glover) and Joe (Pesci) eagerly anticipate another quiet, relaxing fishing trip. Only things don't go quite as they planned! Instead, they innocently create an unstoppable series of outrageous mishaps, destroying everything in their wake! Catch all the crowd-pleasing fun and nonstop laughs as these pals land in one comic disaster after another and deliver one of the wildest comedy adventures in years!

Customer Reviews:

Very Funnnnny. Good Family Movie.......2007-08-30

I like comedy. A lot. This movie is a classic dumb, funny, gag comedy. I read some reviews about this movie and frankly don't understand how some people think. Get a life! Laugh a little. I guess some people think Joe Pesci has to inject four letter words into every sentence to be funny. This movie proves he doesn't. Great movie. Grab the kids. Family time. More movies should be clean and funny like this. Two thumbs and hands and arms up!!!
Phil

Hilarious!.......2007-02-27

This is hands down the funniest movie I've ever seen. Good clean, wholesome fun for everyone. Anyone that doesn't think this movie is hilarious must not have a sense of humor at all!

Gone Fishin is simply Hilarious.......2006-06-26

I recently bought this ol' fav from back in the day on DVD. I actually remember my brother and I were the only ones in the theatre when I first saw it. I hadn't seen this in years and meh it was great. Though some parts are a tad bit over done or one might say corny, overall, this is a very funny movie. Danny Glover and Joe Pechshi do a great job. I love buddy movies. Their on-camera chemistry is awesome as my friend and I found out watching it and laughing uncontrollably almost. The scene where he is about to whack the guy who stole his car in the bathroom stall with a crow bar (which we played over and over again :-P) was hilarious. You just really have to watch this movie and give it a chance and I'm sure you'll love it. Nice movie for everyone which is the way movies should be but lets not get into that...

Anyway, great buy and you won't be dissapointed.

Laugh every second.......2006-03-14

Good for all ages 8 to 80. Everyone will laugh throughout entire movie.

Nonstop Laughter! One Amusing Disaster after Another!.......2005-10-18

The film starts out in New Jersey when Joe and Gus are around ages 10 - 12 years fishing on the shore. They are talking about life, their plans for the future. Joe is smoking a cigar. Gus warns him it is not healthy. Joe flicks the cigar back, it lands in a long pipe, which starts a fire that leads to some factory. In the background, the lights of a nearby city go out one after the other. In the next scene, Joe's photo makes front page news, he is credited with having caused a "blackout" in at least 1/3 of the city.

Next scene, Joe and Gus are adults, still best friends ... they live next door to each other, in almost identical houses. They have a family and are planning a "fishing trip of a lifetime" in the Florida Everglades. They drive down to Florida with their fishing boat behind them. They make a stop at a Florida cracker style restaurant and discuss their plans. A sophisticated British man, who it turns out is a con artist, overhears them. He plays them for suckers, while asking questions about fishing lures and flatters them for their knowledge and skills. After saying good-bye, he lifts the keys to their car and drives off. Joe and Gus look out the window and comment ... about someone having the same kind of car and fishing boat ... when it dawns on them what happened.

The hilarity continues ... somehow they manage to save their fishing boat and rationalize they are lucky, things could always be worse, at least they have their boat. The guys meet a wealthy fisherman who mentions a yacht club in Florida where he plans to go fishing, he invites them to visit. They are picked up by two young women, whom they believe are impressed with their looks and male attributes ... but who quiz them about the con artist. The conman had duped the mother of one young lady, married her and took off with her savings - they are out for revenge. Joe and Gus manage to make it to a run-down fishing camp, which had been damaged by one of the hurricanes. They show the manager a "discount" coupon, which entitles them to live in a trailer. While watching "America's Most Wanted" they discover that the con artist, is notoriously famous, and there is a huge reward out for his capture ... their goal is to catch him. The guys manage to lose their boat ... they meet up with a yacht and boating salesman who talks them into a trial run on a sophisticated yacht - for easy monthly payments that will last ... nearly a lifetime. The guys go out in the water and ruin a yacht race and run the yacht literally into the ground. They drop off the keys to the salesman declining to buy it.

Everywhere they go - whatever they touch - ends up literally smoking and burning. Things get very testy after they discover a map of where the con man left his stash. He knows they have the map and is hunting them. They do not realize the booty is guarded by Mad Maggie. This film is a hoot and worth watching if you love crazy antics. It is the unpredicatability of the twists in the plot which captivate the viewer. There is a song about fishing in the Everglades by Willie Nelson played as background music which adds extra spice to the wild and funny episodes. The ending is surprisingly good when Willie Nelson rescues the guys. In the final scene after catching the con artist, Joe and Gus are inteviewed on TV. They are heros and collect the reward money. Initially, the film seems absurd but once the viewer gets into the spirit of it, it is quite funny and truly worth viewing.
Erika Borsos (erikab93)

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Altair in Starland

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Episodes: The Rescuers, A bad stair day, Take your Partners
Here and Now, Well done, Gone fishin'

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Product Description

If you think a blue boy who can fly and has a star for a best friend sounds weird -try visiting the place where he lives. An extraordinary group of island in the sky...surreal homes...eccentric people with peculiar habits...a wacky royal family... All considered quite normal in Starland. And then there is Altair, growing up in the bizarre world of Starish people, Altair has a blast. He rides on roller coasters that design themselfves, he has a star herding green dog and he can fly

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Very Funnnnny. Good Family Movie
Hilarious!
Gone Fishin is simply Hilarious
Laugh every second
Nonstop Laughter! One Amusing Disaster after Another!

Gone Fishin' [Region 2]
Starring: Joe Pesci , Danny Glover , Rosanna Arquette , Lynn Whitfield , and Willie Nelson
Director: Christopher Cain
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