1980's "Used Cars" represents a "strike three" of sorts for co-writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis (who also directs). The pair were hot stuff in Hollywood for a short time, managing to befriend Steven Spielberg, using such partnership to make movies. However, nobody was particularly responsive to those movies, with Gale and Zemeckis's careers hit with the failure of their first endeavor, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (a sublime comedy), and they accepted part of the blame for the underperformance of Spielberg's "1941" (an underappreciated film), handling scripting duties. "Used Cars" was meant to build the boys back up (with assistance from Spielberg, here as an executive producer), handling a slapstick comedy about used car salesmen and their love of unscrupulous business practices, and while they provide a wild ride of one-upmanship and crazed antics, the feature's dismal box office performance kept Gale and Zemeckis out of work for years, finally claiming industry success together in a major way with 1985's "Back to the Future." The fourth at-bat changed everything. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com