“Brewster’s Millions” is an intriguing film with a great premise but unfortunately it lacks one key thing, humour. “Brewster’s Millions” is apparently a comedy and it stars two famous comedic actors but it has little to no jokes in it and that’s why it fails to get my recommendation.

In “Brewster’s Millions”, a minor league baseball pitcher named Montgomery Brewster (Richard Pryor “Superman III”, “Silver Streak”) is given the chance to inherit $300 million if he can waste $30 million in a one month period. By the end he must be completely broke and no one must know anything about why he’s trying to get rid of his money. Montgomery or Monty as he’s often called must find every way possible to ditch his money according to the guidelines he’s been given and make sure he’s penniless by the end.

Richard Pryor was funny in some of the other films I saw him in but they were bad movies anyway and his efforts felt wasted. Here he isn’t funny as he doesn’t even try to be and if he were funny it would have made “Brewster’s Millions” a good, possibly great film. John Candy (“Blues Brothers”) plays Monty’s friend and fellow baseball player Spike Nolan. He’s okay but again he doesn’t seem funny or even like he’s trying to be.

“Brewster’s Millions” is an alright movie. I enjoyed parts of it but that vital aspect of humour prevented it from being a good experience.  I liked the eccentric ways Monty Brewster loses his money but none of it is funny. Humour would have made me love the eccentric ways Monty Brewster loses his money. I thought the purpose of a comedy was to make people laugh and I didn’t laugh during this film and that’s a real shame as I saw plenty of potential.