Not quite Mr. Ed, as Don the horse tells Fred the Dead that Mr. Ed was dubbed, but then again, so is Don the con the horse. John Candy provides the voice of Don, the horse that Bobcat Goldthwait's father bought and left entrusted to Fred. Now Fred's mother is dead and his stepfather, Dabney Coleman, in another stereotypical villain role, has kicked him out and negotiated with him a small share of the estate.
It's up to Don to aid Fred in succeeding in the stock market, so if you can make it through the 90 minutes of Bobcat's ultra annoying voice, you might find one or two things that are remotely funny. The one thing that I did find funny was the voice of Burgess Meredith as Candy's dad, making horse cultural references and adding the only real touch of class that this film has.
Lambasted as one of the worst films of 1988, it hasn't even entered into the Hall of Fame of classic '80s bombs like "Howard the Duck" and "Ishtar". But, it is equally as bad and possibly even worse, so under promoted at the time that even bad reviews couldn't give it notoriety. The film is loud and unfunny and pointless. In fact, an unclean stable would be preferable to sleep in then have to endure this again.
It's up to Don to aid Fred in succeeding in the stock market, so if you can make it through the 90 minutes of Bobcat's ultra annoying voice, you might find one or two things that are remotely funny. The one thing that I did find funny was the voice of Burgess Meredith as Candy's dad, making horse cultural references and adding the only real touch of class that this film has.
Lambasted as one of the worst films of 1988, it hasn't even entered into the Hall of Fame of classic '80s bombs like "Howard the Duck" and "Ishtar". But, it is equally as bad and possibly even worse, so under promoted at the time that even bad reviews couldn't give it notoriety. The film is loud and unfunny and pointless. In fact, an unclean stable would be preferable to sleep in then have to endure this again.