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Fletch [DVD] [1985]

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  • Actors: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Richard Libertini, Tim Matheson
  • Directors: Michael Ritchie
  • Writers: Andrew Bergman, Gregory McDonald
  • Producers: Alan Greisman, Gordon A. Webb, Peter Douglas
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Uca Catalogue
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Feb 2004
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005UWQW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,501 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Fletch is a fairly sarcastic and occasionally very funny Chevy Chase vehicle scripted by Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles, The Freshman, Honeymoon in Vegas) from Gregory McDonald's lightweight mystery novel about an undercover newspaper reporter cracking a police drug ring. Enjoyment of the film pivots on whether you find Chase's flippant, smart-ass brand of verbal humour funny, or merely egocentric. If you don't like Chase, there's really no one else worth watching (Geena Davis is sadly underused). Chase seems born to play IM "Fletch" Fletcher, a disillusioned investigative reporter whose cynicism and detached view on life mirrors the actor's understated approach to comedy. Fletcher offers Chase the opportunity to adopt numerous personas, as his job requires numerous (bad) physical disguises, and much of film's humour centres on the ridiculous idea that any of these phoney accents or bad hairpieces could fool anyone. These not-so-clever disguises are put to use when Fletch becomes involved in the film's smart but continually self-mocking two-part mystery. As well as trying to gather drug-smuggling evidence against the LAPD for a long-overdue newspaper story, a rich and apparently terminally ill stranger also offers Fletch a large payoff to kill him. While the film does a fairly good job juggling both of these plots, not to mention tossing in a love interest as well, they're subservient, for better or worse, to Chase's memorable one-liners and disguises. Followed by two forgettable sequels that lack both the original's wit and Chase's attention span.--Dave McCoy, Amazon.com


Special Features

16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround English
Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Danish\Dutch\Finnish\Norwegian\Swedish
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Chevy Chase at his Best, 21 Jun 2002
By MarmiteMan (Norwich, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fletch [VHS] [1985] (VHS Tape)
A comedy mystery, adapted from Gregory McDonald's novel, but very much a vehicle for Saturday Night Live comedian Chevy Chase.

Ace undercover investigative reporter Irwin M. Fletcher adopts numerous disguises and personę to get to the bottom of two different cases which actually turn out to be part of the same scam, involving fraud, bigamy, narcotics and police corruption. Along with the disguises comes a variety of deadpan noms de jours that poke fun at, presumably, certain types of Californians in general - eg. "Nugent. Ted Nugent", "Igor Strawinsky" and "Don Corleone."

The film's slow pace and Chase's comic manner may be an irritant to some, but the film has moments when it simply tickles the funny-bone. Such as the aero-engineers discussing the by-pass valve, the roller-skating rabbi on the beach, and the near-cringeing evading the cops during a Veterans' meet (Fred 'the Dorf' Dorffler). A nice Hollywood in-joke is squeaky-clean 'Jim-Bob Walton' (yes, 't is he!) as the teenage car-thief with dental braces. Fletch's penchant for the Los Angeles Lakers is rewarded with a nice cameo from then-larger-than-life popular basketball-player Kareem Abdul-Jabar.

Director Michael Ritchie's lightness of touch, along with understated support from Richard Libertini, Tim Matheson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Joe Don Baker and an early-in-their-careers Geena Davis and George Wendt, allow Chase's style of comedy to never become either too overbearing or too quirky (although Ted Underhill's credit card must have helped ...). However, four years later, both Ritchie and Chase conspired to lose that quite successful touch with the irredeemably dire Fletch Lives.

During the mid-1980s Austrian muso Harald Faltermeyer needed two attempts to Get It Right: his Fletch Theme was the 'dry run' for, following a little tweaking, the more popular Axel F. of Beverley Hills Cop fame.

... Would still like to know how that small story on off-track betting in the Himalayas went ...

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4.0 out of 5 stars I'm a shepherd!, 14 Jul 2006
Chevy Chase has got to be one of the most underated comedy actors around and this film is the perfect vehicle for his sarky smart-ass humour.

Great one-liners, rubbish disguises, dodgy accents and a cheesey 80's soundtrack. What more could you want?
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Chevy Chase at his best., 27 May 2006
This is a wonderful and very funny film.
I bought this as a double pack with both "Fletch" movies on Amazon.de {German packaging but English soundtrack and English subtitles}for around 10 euros and laughed my head for three hours.
Chevy Chase is a brillant and funny man but only if you understand the way he thinks, if your not a fan then you may get lost.
A perfect bonus to the Chevy Chase collection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars He is actually 6'5, 6'9 with the afro.....

Fletch a 1980's classic comedy starring Chevy Chase, in perhaps his best known role.

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The Harold Faltermeier soundtrack adds to the overall quality.

Published on 9 April 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Chase at his very best, like a very bad smell, unmissable.
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