Review – Weekend at Bernie’s

I got a copy of this movie for free when I ordered a pizza. Really. No kidding. Andrew McCarthy stars in what has to be one of the dumbest caper movies of all time. Two snotty morons get caught up in a ridiculous set of circumstances that for one reason or another require them to keep up the pretense that their boss is hanging out with them at his beach house despite the fact that he’s been murdered by mobsters. That nothing they did would even remotely have worked is far beside the point, as is the number of opportunities they had to bail out of the whole mess with few if any repercussions. This is stupid even by 80s caper movie standards, so how or why on earth they ended up making as sequel is completely beyond me. In retrospect, the pizza came in a box. Maybe I should have watched that for 90 minutes instead. See if desperate