It was great to see John Candy carry his own movie. He did not achieve the fame of other comedians like Dan Ackroyd but John Candy was an outstanding comedic actor who could do the physical comedy as well as a more verbal style. It feels like I matured along with John Candy having followed his career in the early 70s at the old Firehall in Toronto where he worked with the likes of Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Eugene Levy, Martin Short and many others, to the TV Series Second City TV to his movie career. He was very versitile and like I said excelled in both physical and verbal comedy. He had a wonderfully sensitive side that came out in his movies and when he passed away there was a vaccuum left that may never be filled.