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Corky Romano
Touchstone Pictures
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for drug and sex-related humor, and for language
Starring
Chris Kattan,
Peter Falk,
Peter Berg,
Vincent Pastore,
Chris Penn,
and
Vinessa Shaw
Good-natured veterinarian Corky Romano (Kattan) is stunned when he receives a call from his long-lost father "Pops" (Falk), an underworld crime lord who has been indicted by a grand jury and needs his black sheep son to infiltrate the FBI undetected and abscond with the evidence against him. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Crime
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
David Garrett
Jason Ward
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Rob Pritts
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 14, 2002
Video: May 14, 2002
Theatrical: October 12, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
86 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Los Angeles Times
Miles Beller
Truly makes you laugh. At its best it recalls the animated antics of a Jerry Lewis escapade, the pratfall follies of a Buster Keaton flick and Rowan Atkinson's outsized physicality.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The movie is a lowbrow showcase for an equally lowbrow comedian, and how much of it you can endure depends entirely on how you feel about Kattan.

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
The movie is so silly I found myself snickering a couple of times, just before slumping down in my seat in mortified embarrassment.

40
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Predictable and tiresome.

40
LA Weekly
Mark Olsen
What at times feels like a maniacal romp becomes just another sporadically funny, but mostly lame, piece of disposable product.

40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
This broad, coarse farce is otherwise as insubstantial a piece of work as you could possibly imagine; in fact, a light breeze could blow it away.

38
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
This is a lazy, careless film that feels strangely unfinished.

38
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Worth your time and money? Fuhgeddaboutit.
38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The writing, directing and acting are all so sketchy, it's a mystery that Kattan didn't just try out this material the way he should have -- in a three-minute sketch.

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The only way sober adults will keep awake is wondering how the lead mobsters on "The Sopranos" -- who also are amateur film critics -- will rank the movie next year on HBO.
25
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Corky Romano is merely grating. Until he finds a better director than Rob Pritts, Kattan's best bet is to stick with "SNL" impresario Lorne Michaels.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Nobody would claim it adds up to much of a comedy. It's strictly for someone looking for a goof-off.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's bad enough that the lazy script substitutes goofy situations for actual gags, much of which falls flat under Rob Pritts' plodding direction, but Corky Romano finally sours in cynicism and hypocrisy.

25
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
The most dumbed-down mob comedy in years. It's the kind of movie you tie around the ankles of a stiff you're tossing into deep water and never want to see again.
20
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
As Corky, Mr. Kattan never finds an appealing perspective on his character. Sweetness is not this gifted comedian's strong suit, and in its place Mr. Kattan offers a desperate eagerness to please, a far less charming quality.

20
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Frankly, there wouldn't have been enough shtick here to warrant an SNL skit. And if the material isn't even up to those standards, then who the hell green-lit it as a feature?
12
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A dead zone of comedy. The concept is exhausted, the ideas are tired, the physical gags are routine, the story is labored, the actors look like they can barely contain their doubts about the project.

11
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The only actors who walk away unscathed are Kattan -- the best thing in a very bad movie -- and former cover girl Shaw.

10
Variety
Joe Leydon
Ranks as the most slapdash comedic star vehicle to hit screens since Harland Williams misfired with the career-stalling "RocketMan."

10
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's depressing enough to sit through an unfunny comedy, but it's worse to watch Falk, Penn and Berg having to earn a living like this.

10
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Corky never becomes sympathetic, and without this fundamental irony the movie doesn't have a leg to stand on.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It might be courting hyperbole to call Corky Romano the single worst movie ever to feature an ''SNL'' cast member (Dan Aykroyd hit some pretty arid valleys), but I'm willing to go out on a critical limb and rank it among the all-time bottom dozen.

0
New Times (L.A.)
Robert Wilonsky
Simply, the worst movie of a wretched year.


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