John Candy Movie Review: ***^ Delirious (1991)

 This is a parody of day time television.  Jack Gable (John Candy) is a writer for a daytime drama.  He bonks his head and then finds he in the daytime drama he is writing.  He further discovers that he can manipulate the characters by what he writes.  He has always had a crush on Laura Claybourne/ Rachel (Emma Samms) and writes them together, while another writer is writing different things.  Gable is falling in love with Louise/Janet Dubois (Mariel Hemingway).  At one point Gable is frustrated and breaks his typewriter.  So he has to perform surgery on the typewriter so as to save Janet.  

This show actually has some humor.  And some very shallow soap box characters.  And in the end one love story.

Robert Wagner has a cameo as the business man Jack Gates.  Raymond Burr plays the father of the ruthless Hedison family.  

Christmas Movie Review: ***^ Jingle all the Way

 This is a Christmas story of a different type.  It shows the commercialism around Christmas very well, as people fight for the perfect toy, an action figure, Turbo Man.  Most particularly Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Myran Larabee (Sinbad) are after the toy on Christmas Eve, which has long been sold out.  They fight and trick each other, and go to the radio station and look for the toy.  In the end, Langston ends up in a Turbo Man costume for the parade, and Larabee steals the Dementor (Turbo Man's enemy) costume and they face off over the toy.  This includes Larabee grabbing Langston's son, Jamie (Jake Lloyd).  Cameos to Robert Wagner as the police officer who keeps crossing paths with Langston and James Belushi as a store Santa Claus running a con game..  Langston must also contend with the divorced neighbor, Ted Maltin (Phil Hartman) who keeps hitting on his wife.

It has it funny parts, but sometimes the fighting is just over the top.