As recent variations of an age-old movie genre go, it is fairly good, but somehow you hope for more from Steve Martin and John Candy.

Mainstream audiences should readily identify with the series of tribulations and woes that befall the Everyman Martin in this good-natured, albeit predictable comedy.

Planes,Trains and Automobiles is a very funny film.

Like many Hughes films, it carries a whiff of his unapologetic sense of the suburban upper middle class as an aspirational paradise. But Planes, Trains and Automobiles squares off two of the greatest comic actors of their generation.