Going Berserk

I'm a huge fan of SCTV, as if you couldn't tell from my past posts. There was even a movie that was originally intended to be an SCTV feature, 1983's Going Berserk.

John Candy stars as John, a limo driver engaged to the daughter, Alley Mills of The Wonder Years, of a US congressman, Pat Hingle. John's futue father in law can't stand him and would love to have him out of the picture. John has bigger problems though when a cult abducts and brainwashes him into killing the congressman. It's up to his best friend, Joe Flaherty, to try and snap him back to reality.

As I stated earlier, this was intended to be an SCTV picture, but Candy, Flaherty, and Eugene Levy were the only three castmembers who were available to star in it. Candy is great, as always, playing the everyman. Levy is also funny as a sleazy film director. His film Kung Fu U is very un pc and hysterical. Ernie Hudson also pops up in a funny bit as a convict handcuffed to Candy.

Candy was originally slated to write the screenplay, but had a hard time finishing it, so he brought in Dana Olsen to cowrite it with director David Steinberg. Olsen wrote the previous Candy film It Came From Hollywood. Intersting sidenote about Olsen, he played Palmer Woodrow in another one of my faves, Making The Grade.

The film gained horrible reviews and didn't make a dent at the box office. But if you're a fan of SCTV, you will probably like it. It makes me laugh everytime I see it.

It's available on dvd.