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I remember this show from when I was little, watching it with my mom, dad, sisters and brother. All of us liked it a lot and laughed a lot but I wondered if I would actually enjoy it today if I watched it again, but when I did it actually holds up.

Harry Anderson stars as a wacky "night court" judge, stuck on the graveyard shift at a New York City courtroom. He's silly, tells a lot of bad "dad jokes" and does a lot of magic tricks (in real life he is a comedy magician, which he also had showed off in his guest roles on another great eighties sitcom, Cheers). So at first obviously he is dismissed as a goof but he's also actually got a lot of heart and wisdom and knowledge of the law, which is why he got to be a judge so young (and when he's so goofy) in the first place.

The defense attorney is a bleeding heart and very attractive young lady, who becomes Harry's romantic interest but also is the target of the lecherous, selfish, stop at nothing to win, heartless D.A. Dan Fielding, played by the hilarious John Larroquette who won many awards for this role. All of these characters are still likable and hold up today, as well as Mac the no nonsense court manager, the gigantic, dopey bald bailiff Bull (Richard Moll), and a succession of female bailiffs (two older, gruff talking, smoking bailiffs actually passed away in real life, and then Roz, the sassy black lady who takes no nonsense from anyone, particularly Dan). The supporting characters are also fantastic. Whoever cast this show, I hope they won a lot of awards.

The writing also holds up with a lot of great jokes. You can kind of tell where most of the stories are going, just like with any older sitcom, but it's still a lot of fun to get there when the characters are this likable and the jokes are still funny.

This movie is awful.

The actors are all awful. Especially Jason Mewes who is probably just there for a quick pay check.

The writing is awful. The story doesn't even make sense but worse than that all the characters are unlikable and stupid. Logic flies out the window. And even worse than that it's not even funny with zero laugh out loud moments in the whole movie.

There's nothing good about this movie. They even stoop to doing littler person jokes like we are supposed to just laugh because the sheriff is a little person? How is that funny?

The hero of the story is a camera man who just seems like a d-bag and who also is not funny.

I thought I recognized the stupid bimbo from the nude slasher shoot scene so I looked her up and it is Nicole Arbour who did that fat shaming video and that was her 15 minutes of fame where everyone hated her and she got blasted on The View then never heard from again. It's nice to see her in this getting two lines to say and shaking her boobs around for the few people who actually will see this movie, guess she'll be doing porn movies soon. She's actually pretty good looking. Then again this movie is from 7 years ago so who knows now.

One last thing the CGI and effects in this movie are a total disaster. With the few slasher scenes they had why not just do practical effects that aren't super expensive in small scenes like this? The CGI is so clumsy and cheap looking it is literally like they did it in a high school's A/V club room with whatever software it is that comes with most computers.

All this could be forgiven if the movie was at least funny accidentally, you know like other movies that are so bad they're good because at least you can laugh at them (like Troll 2 etc), but this is never funny that way, it's just a sad movie that has no real point existing.

I thought the original Storage Wars was an OK enough show. Obviously like most "reality shows" a lot of the action was staged and the characters on it were real people who weren't the best actors but at least they were interesting and funny on occasion.

Just lifting that formula that worked should have been easy enough you would think but Storage Wars Canada fails in every way. Worst of all are the stories they have and the writing. The rummaging cast are not given anything really interesting or funny to do or even just lines to say, and they are 100 times worse at acting than the original show's cast. They didn't find anything interesting or funny, the people finding it weren't interesting or funny, the experts they took their finds to weren't interesting or funny, the conflicts and stories they were given weren't interesting or funny.... were the writers asleep at the wheel the entire season? Seriously a middle school drama class could have come up with better stuff and funnier lines.

I'm surprised this show was even put on television it was so bad, but luckily the plug was pulled. Mercifully I would say.