goofonaroof
In the mid-1980s, Richard Pryor's longtime drug addiction began to affect his physical appearance, he began to look sickly and pretty frail on screen. Despite the fact, this was Pryor's last starring role in a feature film. This comedy has quite a few laughs.Arlo Pear is a mild-mannered engineer from New Jersey who is given a new job position in Boise, Idaho. His family is not happy with the idea, but have no choice but to go with it. Unfortunately, things fall apart quickly: their teenage daughter tries to sabotage every open house that happens, the three movers hired to transport the belongings to the new house actually steal them, and Arlo hires a young man with multiple split personality disorder to drive his priceless Saab to the house. The cameos in the film are worthwhile, as well. Randy Quaid as crazed army veteran neighbor Frank. Dave Thomas as Arlo's friendly boss, Rodney Dangerfield as a loan officer with a serious gambling problem, Morris Day as a young man smitten with Arlo's daughter, and Dana Carvey as the multiple personality maniac.Definitely worth watching.
BlackJack_B
Moving is a lightweight R-rated comedy featuring Richard Pryor as Arlo Pear. He's an engineer who loses his job in a merger but finds a new job that requires him to move from New Jersey to Boise, Idaho.However, his family isn't happy about the move, especially his daughter Casey (Stacey Dash) because she wants to graduate first before leaving.They do move and it seems Murphy's Law hits Arlo over and over again. From hiring a deranged man to drive his Saab to Boise, to criminal moving men, to buying a house in Boise from a crazy old man, it seems Arlo's mental state is being tested to see if it will break.Moving seemingly would work great as a family film as it has that Cosby Show feel to it but for some strange reason they chose to make it an R- rated film and stunt its box office potential.Regardless, Pryor is in good form here and seeing him react to his worsening luck over and over again is fun stuff. Randy Quaid also shines as his neighbor and deranged ex-Vietnam vet Frank Crawford, who childishly abuses Arlo. There are some cool small roles from the likes of Rodney Dangerfield and pro wrestler King Kong Bundy, as well.Not the best Richard Pryor comedy out there but a good one and a lot better than the critics at the time opined. I just wonder how much better it would have been, critically and financially, if it were a PG film.
cuddles195412
My kids and I love this movie!! We think that Richard Pryor and the whole cast did a wonderful job in the movie. It means more to us now since the passing of Richard!! WE will miss his sense of humor. But his movies and shows will stay with us forever!! We especially love the parts of Brad, Frank Crawford and Arlo Pear!! They had some one liners in the movie that were great!! My son and I love to quote those one liners when we see each other and my daughter will join us when we discuss the movie. We thought the moving guys were terrific. We thought he did a great job.WE have to dig the movie and watch it to just to get some great laughs. Richard Pryor we will miss you!!
Ray Sesmatt
I saw this back in '88 and hated it because it's so forced and contrived, but I just watched it, and it was fun. I had no expectations and it was still forced and contrived, but in a good way. I loved the finger bit, and the DOG was great.Dana Carvey was Great. Course he always is. Pryor has been better. Like in Stir Crazy, or Live in Concert, but he's still Pryor here. Quaid, seemed like a rip off from Vacation, or maybe that was a rip off of this? Maybe Quaid was one diminutional, on second thought maybe he still is. I like him anyway. Morris Day had a cool cameo.Apparently I need 10 lines to post an opinion, but there is not much to add, it's a simple movie, what else can I say? The credits were cool. I bet the titles guys are evenious of PhotoShop. I can see them now saying back in my day we had to skew those titles by hand.Now that I think about it, this could have been better if they just played up some of the bits and ignored others. Like the house, who is going to remove that from the back yard? But the old packing guy was great, yet they just dropped that.
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