Almost Heroes (1998)

A late 90s comedy starring Chris Farley and Matthew Perry as a bungling pair of explorers trying to beat Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Ocean and directed by Christopher Guest sounds like it would feature at least regular chuckle-able moments. Sadly that’s not the case. It mostly feels like it has a lot of missed potential. I read a review suggesting that Farley and Perry were miscast and would have been better if their roles were switched. That at least sounds like it would have been a much more interesting movie. For years I’ve avoided this and Wagons East! for similar reasons. I love John Candy a million times more than I care about Chris Farley, so Wagons East! is probably going to end up on The List.