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| TriStar Pictures | Release Date: January 3, 1986 |
Starring:
Don Novello, Eddie Albert, Jane Seymour, Judge Reinhold, Lori-Nan Engler, Merritt Butrick, Michael O'Donoghue, Richard Masur, Rick Moranis, Ron Frazier
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If it had the guts to be either zany or pointed, it might
have been both; instead, it's neither. It's an old copy of Mad magazine
that wouldn't have been your favorite even when you were 12. [6 Jan 1986, p.C11]
Reinhold has a face that is halfway between leading-man handsome and Donald Duck, and a relaxed, drawling confidence with a line -- he seems to float not above the action but on it, like oil on water. And he seems to survive Head Office, a comedy so confused and cowardly it makes television look daring. [4 Jan 1986, p.D4]
Here is a satire about government and business corruption that's as empty, corrupt and manipulative as everything it attacks: a frantic, jokeless comedy about selling out, that sells out itself constantly. This is another big, dumb, pointless picture, a "high concept" movie that's all concept and no movie.
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Head Office has fleetingly funny moments -- Don (Father Guido Sarducci) Novello's attempt to lure women into his limo to listen to boring pop tapes, a Don King rap that's almost as funny as his hair -- but overall, this is one movie that's bankrupt. [7 Jan 1986, p.4]
Unforgivably bad, painfully unfunny, and downright stupid, HEAD OFFICE tries to do to the corporate world what AIRPLANE did to the airlines. A needle in a haystack would be easier to find than a laugh in this film--which is surprising, considering that the cast includes such names as DeVito, Moranis, Novello, Doyle-Murray, and Shawn.
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