Uncle Buck is hilarious because John Candy is hilarious in a role that is ideal for him in a movie that is an ideal vehicle for a peak-of-his-powers John Hughes. I like to judge movies against their aims and so a film trying and failing to be thought-provoking and profound (the example that comes straight to mind is Blowup) will always be worse than a movie that achieves its aim to be fun and disposable. Blowup has thousands of things which commend it that the makers of Uncle Buck would never even have attempted to bring to the screen. But it fails on its own terms and Uncle Buck succeeds on its own terms.
There you are, then. Fun, disposable, hilarious and better than Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup: Uncle Buck. 6/10.
