| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
At its best, Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good-natured, often silly spoof with a few cutting barbs and a comic showman's love of the well-executed gag.
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| 50 |
USA Today
A few chuckles will be had by both the rabble and more learned brains.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
It's not that the film is devoid of honestly earned laughs here and there. The problem is that there are too few of them and that the film can't connect them.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
The scenario looms as a brain-dead invitation for the stars to embarrass themselves, and Company Man wastes little time in fulfilling that glum suspicion.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
A painfully flat spoof of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
If you've always longed to see a Cold War satire done in the hit 'em over the head frantic camp mode of ''Love, American Style,'' then Company Man is the movie for you.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
The script, by co-writers and -directors Douglas McGrath and Peter Askin, is intermittently clever, but their direction is leaden and assassinates every gag with a lethal accuracy the CIA could only hope to achieve.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
Jan Stuart
Too often we feel that left-out-in-the-cold draft that blows over the shoulder whenever actors appear to be having more fun than the audience.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Little more than a loose- jointed succession of goofy "Saturday Night Live"-style sketches and sight gags inspired by an actual event that is nearly half a century behind us.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
The political movie satire from hell.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
At least one chapter in the yet-to-be-written book "When Bad Movies Happen to Good People" belongs to the folks of Company Man.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
There's nothing worse than a bad farce -- except for this Cuban missile crisis comedy that wastes talent like Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Alan Cumming.
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| 20 |
Film.com
A frenetic spoof of 1961's disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, Company Man is likely to be forgotten quickly by audiences.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
Unfunny comedy. Nearly everyone is terrible except for Cumming, who just does what comes naturally and steals his every scene.
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| 20 |
Mr. Showbiz
If Company Man were a wreck on the interstate, it would involve multiple cars and at least one jackknifed tanker truck, and traffic would be backed up for miles as passing motorists slow to gawk.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
The unfunniest comedy I can recall seeing in ages.
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| 20 |
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
A consistently silly, occasionally funny but mostly forced account of how a mild-mannered teacher from Connecticut unwittingly triggered the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
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| 12 |
Chicago Sun-Times
It's an arch, awkward, ill-timed, forced political comedy set in 1959 and seemingly stranded there.
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| 12 |
New York Post
A skin-crawlingly unfunny riff on Woody Allen's "Bananas."
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| 10 |
Village Voice
Bracingly unfunny.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Deadly dull tripe.
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