Andy and Elizabeth Farmer (see what they did?) buy a farm in Vermont, but they can't imagine what awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the to write his Novel. But there's little peace and even less quiet. From a troubled mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its eccentric inhabitants. His effort at a novel are mundane, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book......Chase was quite a big draw in the early eighties, but after The Three Amigos, his output began to coast, and the quality of his films got weaker and weaker.This in particular is one of his lowest points. It's your atypical fish out of water comedy, Culturally offensive, because obviously, the rich kids from the City are far more intelligent than everyone else in this film.Until they bond withe the townsfolk and realise that we are all equals.'Hilarity' in this film includes Chase throwing hot coffee over a bird, and him eating sheep testicles, oh how my sides split.So the film follows Chase getting increasingly vexed, until he has his token breakdown, and he does that tired schtick where he says something sarcastically, and then probably falls over.The last good films Chase made were Xmas Vacation, and Nothing But Trouble (It's just too oddball to be bad), but having the word Funny in the title, is wholly ironic.Would make a really mundane double bill with the same years Richard Pryor 'Comedy', 'Moving'...

Writer Andy (Chevy Chase) and wife Elizabeth Farmer move to the country Redbud, Vermont. At first, they see the little problems as quaint. Their movers have a harrowing time finding their house. However, the weird locals and unending problems overwhelm them. Elizabeth doesn't like Andy's manuscript and writes a children's book of her own. It all falls apart as the couple decides to get divorced and sell their home. They offer the locals money to fool prospective buyers.It has a couple of good chuckles but the movie is more quirky than funny. Chevy's air of superiority gets into the way sometimes. He's not always lovable. This is not that bad either. I had a couple of chuckles but it's not enough.

This is the way a comedy should be. Simple, easy to follow, and with plenty of laughs. Chevy Chase is simply perfect as a New York City sportswriter that moves upstate to start a new writing career. You can only guess what happens next.From the minute they arrive at their new home upstate, everything goes to hell. The house has no phone, the movers get lost, the dog runs away, and everyone that lives in the area is unbearable to be around.Chevy Chase's deadpan humor is used here better than any other movie, save for Fletch and director George Roy Hill of such classic films like "The Sting" and "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" gives this film a much appreciated dose of Norman Rockwellian Americana.

Andy Farmer (Chevy Chase) is a sports writer for a Manhattan newspaper. But, he and his lovely wife, Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) long for a quiet life, away from the rat race. So, when Andy pitches an idea for a novel to a major publisher and receives an advance, they quit their jobs and buy a home in rural New England. Stopping for a picnic on the way to their new home, they take photographs of cows and wax lyrical about their coming good fortune. However, once in the town of Redbud, things do not go as planned. First, the movers get lost and are so irritated and tired by the time they arrive at the Farmers' house, they pitch Andy's desk chair into a nearby pond. Then, Andy and Elizabeth's new mail carrier is a maniac who drives by their place every day, going 70 mph and flinging their mail into the yard. Huh. Andy's first attempt at fishing his own pond results in the capture of a big black snake, which wraps around Andy's shoulders, while Elizabeth digs up a coffin, complete with a corpse, in the couple's garden. From their runaway dog to the horrid dinners served at the local diner to a major writers' block that consumes Andy, will they last the winter? This wonderfully funny film is a great entertainment choice for the proverbial "bad day". The script is very humorous, with a bevy of terrific one-liners. Case in point, when the movers arrive at a rickety bridge, one of them wails that "that's not a bridge, that's a bunch of termites holding hands"! Yes, that's one phrase, but the film sports quite a few of them. The cast, mostly unknowns, are great, with the star, Chase, on top of his game and Smith complimenting him nicely. The scenery in olde New England is lovely while the costumes and other movie niceties are top-notch. George Roy Hill's direction, too, is fast and fresh. If you are searching for surefire laughs at the end of a rough day, you could hardly do better than this little flick. Although it has no grandiose aspirations, it is grand entertainment indeed.