In both cases, these undercover specialists make the curious, even counter-intuitive choice to wear the fakest, most obvious and grotesquely over-the-top disguise possible, the kind absolutely guaranteed to attract attention, all of the unwanted variety, as a means of moving stealthily through the world undetected. In sharp contrast to his distinguished relatives, he’s a total and complete idiot, a bumbling boob as unnecessarily, undeservedly confident, even cocky, as he is incompetent.Ĭrumb’s approach to undercover work is nearly identical to that of Master of Disguise’s Pistachio Disguisey. Alas, Candy’s dunce of a detective does not appear to have inherited the family’s investigative gene. The quintessential underachieving Candy vehicle, Who’s Harry Crumb? casts Executive Producer Candy as the title character, a third-generation detective whose father and grandfather were both world-class shamuses.
SCTV empowered Candy to work at the very apex of his abilities, playing a dazzlingly eclectic array of characters, many wildly different from the portly, dim-witted bumblers Candy played in his perpetually under-achieving solo cinematic vehicles. It wasn’t until I discovered SCTV later on that I realized what an extraordinary talent Candy was. I came to know and love Candy though idiotic vehicles like this.
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Candy spends much of the film falling down in a series of graceless slapstick scenarios: he puts in a more horizontal performance than most porn stars. The inept light comedy subscribes to the “Fat man fall down, go boom” school of comedy. Who’s Harry Crumb? is a painful illustration of just how egregiously Candy’s extraordinary talent and charisma was wasted on films unworthy of him.
Mill Creek’s new Blu-ray of Who’s Harry Crumb? is presented in a somewhat grainy high definition transfer, which is nothing amazing to write about, and while there are no special features to speak of, it comes packaged in a retro-style VHS sleeve.I’m going to confess right here and now that 2020: The Year YOU Control Nathan Rabin, the project where Happy Place patrons chose 12 theme months for the website, beginning with last month’s Danny DeVito Month was, in fact, nothing but an excuse to write about the little-loved 1989 John Candy detective comedy Who’s Harry Crumb? This could have been really spectacular with some great comedic situations, but director Michael Flaherty didn’t have the chops to ignite the material.
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Candy seemed only mildly invested in the boneheaded material, and the movie comes to life when he uses outrageous disguises in a few scenes. Crumb, a bumbling moron by any other term, teams up with the kidnapped girl’s sister (Shawnee Smith), a cute teenager who is amused by Crumb and is willing to put up with his nonsense.Īn attempt to create an Inspect Clouseau-type character for star Candy, Who’s Harry Crumb? is only sporadically funny, which is a shame considering the talent involved. We learn that Crumb’s boss (played by Jeffrey Jones) is hindering Crumb’s progress as best he can, which points to him as a lead suspect, but then there’s his greedy wife (Annie Potts), who is in league with a blue collar criminal (Tim Thomerson), so maybe they’re to blame for the kidnapping. With Crumb on the case, the world is bound to shell out a few nickels in the way of clues. The world’s greatest detective agency has a successor of sorts: Harry Crumb (John Candy), the last in a long line of great detectives. Review: An heiress is kidnapped and a ransom of 10 million is demanded, prompting her father to seek private help, apart from the police. Plot: Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he’s not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping. An attempt to create an Inspect Clouseau-type character for star Candy, Who’s Harry Crumb? is only sporadically funny, which is a shame considering the talent involved.
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