Rudolph 'Rudy' Russo (Kurt Russell) sells used cars in a almost failed shop owned by Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden). In this shop they sell wrecked cars, with the stripping painting and other horrible things but Russo has a dream: make a good publicity of the shop, sell all the damaged cars to make money and run for a Senate's chair. Luke's brother Roy (also played by Warden) also has a used car shop right in front of his and he also has a plan: To buy his brother shop and moved out to it since the City Hall has planned a project that's gonna made him close his spot.

In "Used Cars" the rivalry between car salesman's and their weapons to attract more clients is a very funny thing. Russo is a talented guy who uses of deceiving and smart moves to sell a used car but he's not selling so much lately. After Luke's death things got worse and he knows that Luke's brother wants to take over his business He hides Luke's corpse, saying to all even to Luke's estranged daughter (Deborah Harmon) that he's traveled to Florida and starts to run with the things on the shop making awkward and funny commercials. Along with Jeff (Gerritt Graham, one of the most funny actors I've seen. Great performance he has here) another salesman and a mechanical (Frank McRae) they produce with a couple of friends some of the weirdest commercials ever, interrupting a football game or President Jimmy Carter's speech, leaving the audience in a total state of shock.

In real life we would probably hate these characters because all they do is lie to obtain a sale. But writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis (who directed the movie too) saw a great opportunity to make a very intelligent and funny movie about salesman who don't care about anything except themselves. One moment that you can die laughing is when Jeff is trying to sell a big car to an big family. He tells to the family to make a test-drive and meanwhile he puts his dog Toby under the car and puts something on the wheels. Then the car passes by and he starts to cry, says that they killed his dog and convinced the family to buy the car. This scene is very funny because the dog wasn't killed and he acted so ridiculously funny, it's such a smart dog.

There's a war between Russo and Roy about who's gonna win the possession of the shop; the publicity lies and many other things. This is one the first films directed by Robert Zemeckis ("Back to the Future", "Cast Away", "Contact") and it's so strange not seeing any visual effects here. By the end of the movie I couldn't believe that this is one of his works. And it's a great film, very underrated and surprisingly funny. 10/10

A pair of the worst feuding brothers in the history of cinema is to be found in Used Cars. Jack Warden plays both the Fuchs brothers who own competing used car lots across the street from each other in Mesa, Arizona. But bpth are different.

Roy Fuchs has a top of the line outfit and wants to take over brother Luke's ramshackle establishment which employs Kurt Russell and Gerrit Graham as the sales staff and Frank McRae as a mechanic.

Luke dies under some interesting circumstances and to keep their jobs and for Russell to make more money to start a political career the body is hidden and the lot keeps open. All while the living Warden tries to find out what's going on.

The con still keeps going after Deborah Harmon the daughter of the deceased arrives. After that it gets too madcap to describe.

The film s a bit of Weekend at Bernie's and Robin And The 7 Hoods mixed nicely together. Russell who was a Disney bubblegum star shows some nice comedic acting chops further developed in vehicles like Captain Ron. Graham amd McRae are pretty funny, and there's a nice pair of appearances from David Lander and Michael McKean playing the same kind of roles they did as Lenny and Squiggy on Laverne And Shirley.

It seems appropriate that Russell wants to go into politics. I still remember the famous Herblock cartoon of Richard Nixon with the caption, "Would you buy a used car from that man".

This one very funny film.

Following "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", Robert Zemeckis directed the equally silly "Used Cars", about the antagonistic high jinx between two used car salesmen (Kurt Russell and Jack Warden). This isn't the sort of movie that you watch to change your life or pick up on double meanings or anything like that; you watch it to have fun. And indeed you will! Whether it's the R-rated commercials, or anything else, the movie's a hoot the whole way through. Like "Big Trouble in Little China" and "Overboard", it shows that Kurt Russell really works best in comedy. Just great.

A mile of cars. Imagine that...