Used Cars started at a significant deficit for me because I'm not inclined to like any fast-talking slick car salesman, and this movie is all about those guys. In fact, these are the worst of the worst because they are knowingly ripping off the public and they seem to be in it just for the fast dollar. I genuinely hated these characters from the first moment we met them. However, there was just a minor bit of saving grace in the fact that Kurt Russell is still a ridiculously charming guy, and I WANT to like him even if he is acting like a creep. Also one of Jack Warden's characters and Deborah Harmon's character are nice people, so you don't want to see them suffer. But my investment in the stakes of the film was extremely low, since I don't particularly care if both used car lots get shut down.
The logic of the world we see in Used Cars is almost comically ridiculous. In fact, I wasn't laughing at many of the things I knew they expected to be jokes, but I chuckled a number of times at the backwards way the law worked in the film. The fact that someone can get away with violence, nudity, and pre-empting live TV for an advertisement is insane. But then it becomes laughable that a simple one-word exaggeration is grounds for getting your business shut down in the same movie. Let's see...what will the judge crack down on more, "a mile of cars," or bare boobs preempting a football game? It's just dumb movie logic, and I never thought it added to the comedy in a good way, but more in a way where I was laughing at the film. I still had a few chuckles with Used Cars, and the final big car convoy was admittedly fun, even if I hated most of the people driving in it.
The logic of the world we see in Used Cars is almost comically ridiculous. In fact, I wasn't laughing at many of the things I knew they expected to be jokes, but I chuckled a number of times at the backwards way the law worked in the film. The fact that someone can get away with violence, nudity, and pre-empting live TV for an advertisement is insane. But then it becomes laughable that a simple one-word exaggeration is grounds for getting your business shut down in the same movie. Let's see...what will the judge crack down on more, "a mile of cars," or bare boobs preempting a football game? It's just dumb movie logic, and I never thought it added to the comedy in a good way, but more in a way where I was laughing at the film. I still had a few chuckles with Used Cars, and the final big car convoy was admittedly fun, even if I hated most of the people driving in it.