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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: June 12, 1998 |
Starring:
Artie Lange, Bradley Reid, Chevy Chase, Christopher McDonald, Don Rickles, Jack Warden, Joseph Sicilia, Matt Steinberg, Norm Macdonald, Traylor Howard
Summary:
A loser finds success in the revenge-for-hire business.
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The joy of Dirty Work is in Macdonald's observational writing and sardonic delivery. Because he and director Bob Saget never take the film too seriously, nearly every scene transcends the ordinariness of the movie's plot line by giving way to Macdonald's charisma. [15 Jun 1998, p.32]
The dialogue is so insipid, the jokes so sophomoric, one gets the feeling Saget called in a favor to the Olsen twins on a day the pair were feeling particularly naughty. [15 Jun 1998]
Here, Saget can't even find a consistent tone, varying between all-out slapstick and attempts at dark comedy. Then again, it's hard to milk yuks out of murder, prison rape, bestiality, incest, homelessness and guns in school. [13 Jun 1998, p.023]
A painfully unfunny vehicle for Norm Macdonald, who here shows exactly why he was ousted from NBC's Saturday Night Live. [13 Jun 1998, p.27]
Jul 16, 2022
Criminally underrated. This is a comedy movie not Shakespeare in Love, and comedy is not universal as to what’s good or bad, so you’ll either love it or you won’t like it because your humors are all out of whack.
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Mar 16, 2023
Fun, low stakes and mixed effort. Some good chuckles worked throughout and some decent recurring bits, some work much better than others.
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