I, for one, do understand the "nest egg" concept.

Really funny and I think the predictability actually enhances the comedy. The characters are so completely oblivious and obviously doomed to fail that it overcomes the awkwardness. It does get a bit tiring towards the end, but it's an acceptable amount.

I always hear how funny this movie is, but it really isn't anything special. It's an okay film but I laughed maybe twice.

The first act is a great setup, but once it turns into a comedy of errors the laughs are few and far between. Too much of the later half of the film is spent watching the characters wander around confused or angry rather than advancing the plot or playing situations for laughs.

Begins with a flurry of comedic wit that hits right on the nose. The first half of this movie is among the funniest things Brooks has done. The second half, unfortunately, loses steam and reaches a level of tepidness that more resembles some of Brooks's more recent endeavors.

The first two-thirds of this sharp commentary on the Reagan recession are very funny--especially the scene between Brooks and Garry Marshall and Brooks ' explosion of rage at Hoover Dam--but the film gets wistful and grim when the "outlaw" yuppie begin to taste the bleakness of their new minimum wage existence. The location photography--particular of the geriatric trailer court and the depressed New Mexico town they try to settle in--is atmospheric.

Funny film satirizing both the American dream, and dreams of escaping it.

It's got some really hilarious stuff in it, but it gradually loses steam after they leave Las Vegas, with the laughs fewer and farther between. Perhaps I've become too familiar with it.

It's really, really funny in the first half or so, and then it tails off. In fact, I've only seen this movie all the way through once or twice, but I've started it probably six or seven times. The first half makes it worthwhile, though. ("What do you think?" "I think if Liberace had kids, this would be their room.")

Less fun and more annoying than usual from Brooks