“Fletch” (1985)
ENG
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“Excuse me, my car just hit a water
buffalo. Can I borrow your towel?”
This quote, said to a woman as she
recently finished her shower, is a classic example of actor Chevy Chase in the
1980s comedy “Fletch.”
There is also a scene where he is
dressed up like Moses and roller skates down the beach where he talks to a
potential source for his drug trafficking story. Classic, I must say.
“Fletch” is based a series of
detective fiction from the 1970s and early 80s. I don’t remember the name of
the author of those books, but regardless, I have a gut feeling that he would
have approved of Chevy Chase as the unorthodox newspaper column writer.
As a disguise, he introduces himself
as Harry S. Truman, Don Corleone, and probably most humorously Ted Nugent.
While these references show very
much just how old this movie is (Nugent being a music star from the late 1970s),
it still makes for a fun hour and a half of your time, if a bit quirky part of
your time.
One really cannot go very deeply in
the movie-analyzing business by writing articles on “Fletch.”
Directed by the late Michael
Ritchie, “Fletch” is fun, and I must say would make for a good remake idea.
It is a shame they let a gem like
this go, because “Fletch Won” (the second film was released in 1989) has been in
and out of development for more than 20 years.
I recommend this movie if you are
feeling a bit low and looking for some old-school deadpan comedic delivery—as
former Saturday Night Live actor
Chevy Chase could do.
My rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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