Love to hate or hate to love, either way there's quite a few movies that we wouldn't like to be found watching. They even manage to find their way into the vhs-collection in the basement, sometimes even as far as showing up amongst the dvds. Yeap yeap yeap, just admit it, you've got at least one or two movies liyng around that you watch behind closed curtains. You can't tell anybody about it because it would ruin your otherwise good moviefanatic reputation, i can't even imagine what would happen if somebody caught be watching Best of the best. To my deffence i throw in the towel as soon as Eric Roberts throws out the line "It's been a long time!" 

The funny thing is that the 80's was just a never ending bad nightmare for those who are selective about their movie history, too many low budget comedies and action movies were made, one couldn't help but fall in love with some of them. The genre with the largest load of movies to secretly admire must be comedies, it doesn't take a lot of talent to make a hillarious flick. A lot of action movies from the same decade prove that the director didn't even have to make the movie as a comedy, the bad acting along with big hair and bad plots, automatically made it a jolly experience. Thank you Chuck Norris!

Its become a trendy thing to love movies, more and more newbies are just finding out everything the the cinematic culture has to offer. The only problem is that its a bit hard to take a crash course in moviehistory, one has to watch atleast two craploads of movies to even have a small chance of surviving in a discussion. The solution to the problem is relatively simple and often relatively funny;

• Go and buy a cult classic
• Watch it atleast two times
• Find out that the movie is a work of art
• Say that you hate it the next time you enter a discussion
  

You're bound to turn some heads and get some respect, sadly it will only last 5 minutes, as soon as the topic changes your arsenal goes belly up. The last talk i had with a newby made me blow my cold drink through my nose like a dragon, my stomach muscles are still hurting. A friend of mine had just seen Once upon a time in Mexico and was pretty upset, he liked the movie but hated the director and the producers since they had obviously plagiarized Desperado by using the same characters.... (hint: he didn't understand that it was infact the sequal)

"Who's Harry Crumb" is a goofy little film, the only comparable feature has to be The Master of Disguise with Dana Carvey. The last one being a disaster of a movie, totally braindead, John Candy however manages to pull of the role as the mastermind detective who has a thing for dressing up as different characters. Its a charming comedy from a wonderfull comedian who gave us a lot of laughs over the years, this despite the fact that he never made any big budget movies.

Harry Crumb comes from a long line of successfull private detectives (which ofcourse all look the same), the Crumbs have been famous for their crimesolving history. The deal with Harry however is that he is totally incompetent in doing anything that even remotely involves solving a mystery. Because of this he is excluded from the family business Crumb & Crumb, but this is before Eliot Draison (Jeffrey Jones, Howard the duck) contacts Harry and wants him back at the head office.

The mission is to work on a big kidnapping case involving the disappearence of Jennifer Downing, daughter of the wealthy P.J. Downing, played by Barry Corbin (Wargames). P.J is in his second marriage with the much younger Helen Downing who couldn't give a rats ass if her stepdaugther was never to be found. She's also having an affair with her tennis instructor, who also happens to be a moron.

Harry teams up with Jennifers younger sister, Nikki, while they use much time in investigating everything from health spas (awesome scene by the way) to the appartement of the tennis instructor, the real story is that Eliot Draisen is infact the kidnapper and has plans on pushing the Downings for money. The problem is that Helen Downing, Jennifers stepmother, has the same plan and therefore tries to foil every ransom note that she recreives.

I know that this sounds pretty bad, but John Candy is larger than life in this movie, some of his costumes are sooooo funny that you can't do other than laugh out loud. My personal favorite is Harry Crumb disguised as the fashionslave Djour Djilios. That's the whole theme of the movie, the story is bad, the rest of the cast play pretty hollow characters, but Harry Crumb manages to make an ass of himself over and over again. When he's not busy doing this, his oversized body along with his single braincell trash everything in their way.

As i mentioned earlier, this is one of those love to hate movies, you hate it or love it but won't admit that you do. My philosophy has always been to watch a movie based on its entertainment value, i don't care about the plot or cast, i don't look for hidden messages of value. "Who's Harry Crumb" is a pretty nice peace of entertainment on any night. Get ready to work out your stomach muscles.