SummaryAfter receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irvin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into trouble.
Directed By:Michael Ritchie
Written By:Gregory McDonald, Leon Capetanos
Fletch Lives
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Mixed or Average
40
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Generally Favorable
6.7
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Funny and inventive vehicle for Chevy Chase's hapless and genuinely funny comic creation.
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Fletch Lives feels like TV, but at least it's clever, unpretentious TV. [20 Mar 1989, p.83]
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Effective as these actors are, it's Chase's breezy performance - with its blend of irony and insouciance - that makes Fletch Lives worth a look. He's what Alan Alda would be if Alda could ever figure out how to adapt his TV persona to the big screen.
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Film’s saving grace is its scathing satirical sketches of fictional televangelist preacher Jimmy Lee Farnsworth.
40
Fletch Lives is the ultimate comedy of condescension, a movie with a hero whose every other line of dialogue is a snide wisecrack directed at a fool. In this meager sequel, as in its popular predecessor, Chevy Chase demolishes every easy target in sight with a quip of the tongue. Some of the lines are funny, but after a while you just want to smack him.
25
Fletch Lives isn't a total zero. Three, or maybe four, of Chevy Chase's wisecracks work. But everything else about the film is feeble and poky. Even its tastelessness lacks the coarse energy of vulgarity. It's hard to believe that the world has had to wait five years for this witless, insipid sequel to "Fletch," an original that's easy to top. [17 Mar 1989, p.45]
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Fletch Lives looks less like ''Fletch 2,'' which it is, numerically speaking, than ''Fletch 7,'' the bitter end of a worn-out series.
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6
Not as good as the first but it's still an entertaining watch. Handsome Chevy Chase is charasmatic as ever as Fletch. This time around he inherits a mansion and a woman he meets turns up dead. There are more hits than misses joke wise but it all feels so by the numbers. It's definitely an unnecessary sequel which is sad because the original had some real franchise potential. Budget:$8m
Domestic Box Office: $35m
Worldwide Box Office: $39m 3/5
