Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) review

Klutzy private detective Harry Crumb (John Candy) - who comes from a long line of distinguished investigators - is summoned to look into the kidnapping of Jennifer Downing (Renée Coleman), the oldest child of ultra-wealthy P.J. Downing (Barry Corbin) and his 'wife' (and nymphomaniac) Helen (Annie Potts), but he keeps missing important details (while getting a couple of things correct), so P.J.'s youngest daughter Nikki (Shawnee Smith) sticks around to help him solve the case.  Completists (and fans) of the late Canadian comedian (who passed away at the young age of 43) might find a few of his antics to be somewhat entertaining, but the timing seems quite a bit off and the visual gags - his tie caught in a shredder, his finger stuck inside of a fish, gloves glued to his hands, him driving in a car with no brakes, etc. - have already been done better in other movies.  Crumb's "disguises" - as a Turkish businessman, an Indian gentleman, a horse jockey - may be viewed as "insensitive" by today's audiences even though in the eighties no one would have had an issue with it ... except they simply aren't clever.  Almost any random sketch comedy skit Candy took part in is preferable to this.