Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

JohnHowardReid Brewster's Millions started life as a 1902 novel by George Barr McCutcheon. It was re-published in 1943. In 1906 a stage adaptation was presented at the New Amsterdam in New York and ran up an excellent 163 performances. Fatty Arbuckle starred in a silent version in 1921. In 1935, Jack Buchanan starred in a British movie version. In 1945, the project slipped back to Hollywood as a vehicle for Dennis O'Keefe and June Havoc. In 1961, another British version (entitled Three on a Spree) surfaced as a vehicle for Jack Watling and Carol Lesley. However, very little of the original scenario is used in the Richard Pryor re-make, just the basic idea. The characters have all been changed and so has much of the plot – but that's all for the better in this delightfully expansive and expensive version. Superb performances all around are a feature of this entry, especially from Prior himself, of course, as well as John Candy, Lonette McKee and Stephen Collins.

SnoopyStyle Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor) pitches minor league ball in Hackensack, New Jersey with his loudmouthed catcher best friend Spike Nolan (John Candy). They get thrown in jail after a bar fight. Charley Pegler (Jerry Orbach) let the boys go from the team. J.B. Donaldo (Joe Grifasi) bails them out. Brewster thinks he's a scout calling them up to the big league but instead he brings them to a reading of a Will. Brewster is the sole heir. Rupert Horn (Hume Cronyn) has left him $300 million but only if he can spend $30 million in 30 days. He cannot own any assets at the end and he can't tell anybody. If he fails, the trustees' firm would gain control of the money. Angela Drake (Lonette McKee) is a paralegal from the firm assigned to keep track of the money. Warren Cox (Stephen Collins) is her boyfriend also from the firm. Drake doesn't know the real deal but Cox is eventually let in on the deal and convinced to sabotage Brewster's efforts. What seems easy at first turns out to be much harder to do.I love both John Candy and Richard Pryor. Pryor smooths out his rough edges to play in this PG movie. It's a bland comedy without any big laughs. Director Walter Hill just doesn't have the comedic skills to maximize his leading comedians. I still like the characters. Pryor is straight-jacketed here. John Candy is trying his best. It's a sweet movie. It's just not that funny.

TheLittleSongbird While Brewster's Millions is not a perfect movie by all means, but it is a bright and breezy film that does have its heart in the right place. Also, as far as comedies go it is not one of the most defining films of the genre, but to be a good movie Brewster's Millions didn't need to be that.As I have said already, Brewster's Millions is not a perfect film. The plot is on the predictable and simple side and I can understand why one might find it bizarre too with its concept and all though I did find it refreshing in a sense on the other side of the argument. The ending feels rather abrupt and could have been rounded off better, and also while others may be divided on whether to perceive this as a flaw, Brewster's Millions does have a theme that is firmly rooted in the 80s which may date it slightly.However, it is nicely filmed, with striking locations and nice cinematography and editing, while the soundtrack is nicely 80s without dating the film. The film does work in its humour, the script is funny without the need to be too sophisticated and smart, while the odd situation also made me chuckle. The direction is good enough, the film is paced well and it is a good length. And although the story is quite simple, there is enough material to engage throughout, and a lot of it is to do with the fun chemistry between Richard Pryor and John Candy. Pryor I can find loud and unfunny at times, and other times where he is a lot of fun, his performance here is the latter and it does help that his character and most of the characters here are likable, while Candy really does shine. There is also a hilarious cameo from Rick Moranis and Jerry Orbach is always good value.All in all, Brewster's Millions is a fun film with heart even if there are parts/aspects that could have done with more work. 7/10 Bethany Cox

damotomo What I love about this film is that it teaches us to avoid greed and excess while giving us a good laugh at the same time. Made in the context of Gordon Gecko's 'Greed is good' philosophy of the 1980's, its lessons are just as relevant today as we face the economic disaster caused by the selfishness and greed of many of our financial institutions. Brewster finds that friendship, loyalty, honesty and generosity of the heart are far more valuable than the promise of material riches. John Candy's flawed yet redeeming character reminds us that we are all vulnerable to temptation but we don't have to succumb to it. I see Richard Pryor's Brewster join Orson Wells' Charles Foster Kane in his search for Rosebud. Unlike Kane, Brewster's search is more successful. Like all good comedy this film not only entertains us with laughter but also offers us insight into the human condition.