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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 10115
Released: March 4, 2003 |
| Our Price: $4.47 |
| Used Price: $1.60 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This hilarious hit stars Danny Glover (LETHAL WEAPON series) and Joe Pesci (MY COUSIN VINNY, LETHAL WEAPON II & III) as the funniest fishermen ever to throw out a line! Best buddies Gus (Glover) and Joe (Pesci) eagerly anticipate another quiet, relaxing fishing trip. Only things don't go quite as they planned! Instead, they innocently create an unstoppable series of outrageous mishaps, destroying everything in their wake! Catch all the crowd-pleasing fun and nonstop laughs as these pals land in one comic disaster after another and deliver one of the wildest comedy adventures in years!
Description of Gone Fishin':
Gone Fishin' has been called "the Ishtar of the '90s," but that's giving it too much credit. Danny Glover and Joe Pesci (who could have used their Lethal Weapon series buddy Mel Gibson in here) star as slow-witted friends who take their dream fishing vacation in the Florida Everglades and end up having a series of disasters. Trouble is, director Christopher Cain can't get a handle on any of the comedy essentials for a project such as this. The result is a badly timed, badly toned, unfunny movie wasting a lot of great talent across the board. --Tom Keogh
Gone Fishin' Reviews:
A very under-rated comedy that is well worth watching 
2009-11-21 - It will never become a comedy classic, but "Gone Fishing" is still a very funny comedy that is well worth watching.
Glover and Pesci star as a couple of not so bright guys who just want to enjoy a well earned fishing holliday. But everything you can
think of goes wrong for them. And a few things you probably can`t think of to top it all off.
Normally you wouldn`t think of Danny Glover as a comedian, and while he`s not great at it he still turns in a decent comedic performance. Pesci, as always, is a comedy natural.
The film is a little slow in places, but makes up for it with some great slapstick gags.
Easily worth four stars.
Another Childhood Favorite!!! 
2009-11-16 - Ever since I was a kid, I've loved this movie because of the hilarious situations that Gus & Joe would get into. Gus and Joe are bumbling best friends who are going on a fishing trip in The Everglades down in Florida. When they stop to get a bite to eat, they have friendly conversation with a man, who soon steals their car. From then on, nothing goes right like tying the boat wrong, to lighting a gas station on fire, to blowing up a fancy hotel, and much more. The man who stole their car is a murderer and a theif named Dekker Massey. When they finally find their car, there is a bloody knife and a map inside. They try to find the treasure, only to be taken hostage by Dekker. Will Gus and Joe stop Dekker and save the day? I highly recommend GONE FISHIN'!!!
Funny, funny, funny!!!
2009-06-26 - Oh, my heck, what a funny movie. I have seen bits and pieces of this movie, but never the whole thing. What a hoot! It was a crack-up. Talk about bad luck....or is it good luck? If you want to have a good laugh and feel better after, get this movie. The price is right,too!
Dumb But Innocent, And That's Not So Bad 
2009-02-14 - This was "Dumb and Dumber" without the crudeness and profanity.
That doesn't mean it's an award winner: it's pretty stupid, but it is refreshing to see a movie in which both Joe Pesci and Danny Glover star and never utter a profane word! Unbelievable! And you can add Rosanna Arquett to that list, too, and she wasn't exactly Mother Teresa in a lot of her other films.
The professional critics totally lambasted this film, which wasn't altogether fair, either. It is refreshing in its innocence (something critics know nothing about) and it has its funny moments. Best of all it's entertaining.
Yes, this is "Lightweight" with a capital "L" but I've seen a whole lot of films that were the opposite and total garbage. At least you watch this with your kids and have some laughs. What's wrong with that?
Turned off half way thru 
2009-02-09 - I have never in my life turned off a movie half way thru, but with this movie, I did. The movie actually annoyed me!
