DIRTY WORK-MGM-1998-Old “Saturday Night Live” players never die, the movies they’re in just get worse and worse!
This stupid comedy would have been helped considerably if someone other than Norm McDonald (also one of the writers) was in the lead role. Not only isn’t he very funny or appealing but he seems to be delivering his lines from another movie. He plays a loser who’s tired of taking shit from assholes so he and his brother (Artie Lange from McDonald’s own TV show and “Mad TV”) open up a revenge for hire service called “Dirty Work”. They screw theater manager Don Rickles out of his job and help a circus dwarf get back at a drunken bearded lady. But eventually they are manipulated by an opera loving Donald Trump type land developer.
There are some funny gags but mostly the jokes are so stupid (dogs having sex; McDonald off screen getting butt fucked by some prisoners) you can’t help but laugh at adults making such nonsense.
To top it all off Chris Farley (he did die) and Adam Sandler (no comment) are also in it! Jack Warden plays the brothers’ sex obsessed father who needs a heart transplant from an in debt to the mob doctor (Chevy Chase).
Traylor Howard is the female lead who’s character doesn’t have much to do.
With other cameos by Kim Bassinger, Gary Coleman, Ken Norton and John Goodman. The director Bob Saget once hosted the TV show “America’s Funniest Home Videos”, so you’ve been warned!
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