Steve, this disappoints me greatly! It's probably my favorite Coen Brothers movie ever and in my top 10 of all time. Can remember being pissed that my best friend's parents decided to take us to this instead of Pretty In Pink (yes... for shame), but then howling with laughter, sitting in Cine Capri, immediately falling in love with everything in the movie. The screenplay is simply incredible, only matched by the direction of it. "They've got Yodas and ish on them!" to "Dale... he smiled at me." to "Well, uh, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps REAL hard" to... "And when there was no crow-dad to be found we ate sand. You ate WHAT? We ate sand. You ate SAND? We ate sand." to "Awful good cereal flakes Mrs. McDonough." to "Would you buy furniture from a store called Unpainted Huffheins?!" to "Son, you got a panty-hose on your head" to "Government sure do take a bite don't it?" to "********* Dale... YOU NEVER LEAVE A MAN BEHIND!" to "You're going to send him to Arizona State." to "She's a hellcat. T-i-g-E-R!" to without a doubt, the single greatest opening sequence/score which runs about 14 minutes long before the main titles hit the screen.
And of course the last line:
"I don't know. Maybe it was Utah."
Nic Cage, Holly Hunter, Randall Tex Cobb, John Goodman, William Forsythe and of course, family friend Lynn Ketei in a brief appearance as Mrs. Arizona... all at the very top of their game.