Highly Overrated But Still Good

Absolutely the worst movie.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I was a big John Candy fan through the 1980's. In this movie, John Candy plays TV producer Jack Gable who is in love with his leading actress played by the stunningly beautiful Emma Samms and struggling to keep creative control over his series from his co-producers played by Jerry Orbach and Renee Taylor. Meanwhile, he keeps stumbling quite literally into Mariel Hemingway as the struggling potential actress trying to get a role on his show and as a rival TV writer named Fetterman tries changing his universe even with his own typos creating havoc. After mysteriously ending up on his show, he keeps trying to write the plot to win Samms's heart through gleefully far-fetched fantasies, but he instead keeps running into Hemingway. The best parts of this movie are its ability to parody the soap opera theme (brain tumors, favorite sons, absurd declarations, diabolical scheming, series contradictions, etc). Samms seems to enjoy herself in this movie playing a conniving vixen while the versatile Hemingway plays the All-American girl-next-door type with a bit of whimsical awkwardness, but much of the comedy comes from the male co-stars, particularly Raymond Burr as the head of the Hedison clan. Playing the comedy straight, Burr delivers almost every line as a catchphrase."Delirious" is a sort of "Twilight Zone" affair in which a soap mogul is haunted by his old characters, even those he has killed off. ("Len? Len? We killed him off two seasons ago!") Even though this side of the plot is barely explored, what we have left is a "Brady Bunch"-level fantasy-comedy with all the raucous humor of a spoof of a daytime drama. At its core, "Delirious" is a love story linking Candy with Hemingway to discover what he really wants instead of what he thinks he wants. It has a strong cast, a script that bounces from the weak to the absurd to the amusing and an enterprising premise. The movie "Delirious" gently penetrates the issue of what could happen when a man or woman can simply "write the outcome" of their inner and outer world.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

A soap opera writer (John Candy) gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.I have to say I am not generally a fan of John Candy's films. Some are better than others, but I never think of his as a starring role kind of guy. This film was different. I guess it flopped, but I am not sure why -- it is clever, charming and an overall fun little film. I would recommend to friends and family.The whole concept of a writer being able to write his world is awesome, and while it has been done elsewhere, I am not sure it has ever been done with such wit as it was here. I mean, really... cold deer? Hilarious.

Flimsy comedy carried by the likability of John Candy as Jack Gable a third rate script writer on a failing daytime soap opera. After an accident Jack awakens in Ashford Falls the town he created in the TV show with all his characters brought to life. He soon realises his typewriter gives him the ability to write his own destiny and go from Jack Gable the bumbling writer to Jack Gates the wolf of Wall Street. The film has some neat ideas the comedy is a tad hit and misses but John Candy is as reliable as ever pulling this movie from the depths it would have gone without him. Other characters are broad soap archetypes and exist solely as props in the John Candy show. The film is passable and raises a few laughs Raymond Burr and Robert Wagner make funny guest appearances and supporting characters Ty, Dr Kirkwood and Blake all have their moments. An enjoyable bit of comedy fluff 7/10

Built upon the „Groundhog Day` pattern, „Delirious` drives in a completely different direction soon. The idea is not mainly to alter the main character step by step but to parodize run-of-the-mill soap operas with everything they've got in common. And in this respect, the movie does a good job. The plot of the soap turns really crazy after some time and this fact itself is an ironic side-swipe at the industry. After years, it's impossible to keep some realism in the developments of soap characters. The idea that despite all this, the fictitious world has its own virtual level and that the stories go on, even if the audience doesn't watch, is also interesting. And then, the gags are held together by a number of inside jokes of a kind that is actually NOT found in an ordinary soap opera.As usual, John Candy is completely displaced here, but the difference to other movies is that here, there is not much he can ruin. The film is great not because of him but in spite of him.Unfortunately, the ending comes up to the expectation you have about John-Candy-films. The fictitious narrative level is destroyed, we're back to reality. That's the ending one expects. Surely, it would have been easy to produce a more witty, more brilliant ending, but maybe this predictability is part of the game. Soap operas are like that...