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Men at Work (1990)

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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 6  Rotten:14 Average Rating: 4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Synopsis:
Brat-pack auteur Emilio Estevez directs himself and his brother Charlie Sheen in this environmentally conscious comedy. Carl and James are two sanitation engineers who enjoy pulling excrement-themed pranks on coworkers and dream of opening their very own surfing goods store. In the... [More]
Brat-pack auteur Emilio Estevez directs himself and his brother Charlie Sheen in this environmentally conscious comedy. Carl and James are two sanitation engineers who enjoy pulling excrement-themed pranks on coworkers and dream of opening their very own surfing goods store. In the meantime, they're happy just to guzzle beers and play Trivial Pursuit. Then one day, while emptying a typical garbage can, they dump out a dead political candidate. And the more they learn about this stiff, the more trouble they're in -- especially after they uncover an illegal toxic waste disposal plot. Now Carl and James must decide whether to contact the authorities or abandon the corpse and go catch some waves. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Darrell Larson, John Getz, Leslie Hope

Director: Emilio Estevez

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 4, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Full Frame - 1.33
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Stereo - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer

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Lame trash men comedy, early Estevez and Sheen.

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02/23/08 11:30 AM
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com
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Despite its ample flaws, Men at Work is never boring and often is a lot of fun; however, it would have benefitted from the pruning of a few of its misfired visual gags,

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02/04/08 11:33 AM
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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The grotesque practical jokes perpetrated against two interfering bumblers are genuinely funny, while Estevez and Sheen remain cutely goofy even when indulging themselves in this adolescent idiocy.

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06/24/06 04:26 AM
Time Out
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08/31/05 10:29 PM
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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No review available.

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07/05/05 10:54 PM
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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No review available.

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01/17/05 03:57 PM
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Banal brotherly project concocted up by real life siblings Sheen and Estevez. An uneven and unfunny ruse under the dour direction of Estevez

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05/31/03 12:45 PM
Frank Ochieng
TheWorldJournal.com
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The Sheen brothers display how useless they are in this, the dumbest of dumb comedies, proof that they'll never be confused with the Marx Brothers.

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05/24/03 08:03 AM
Channel 4 Film
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The movie's desire to please is tireless, also engaging. Mr. Estevez's screenplay is not entirely coherent, but it has a number of comically crackpot lines.

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05/20/03 05:03 PM
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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Golf clap!

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04/06/03 07:48 PM
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com
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In fairness to the two actors, who have appeared in much better films, they don't have much to work with here.

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03/23/03 08:02 AM
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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Just tell me why?

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02/02/03 09:22 PM
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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No review available.

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10/13/02 10:17 PM
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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At times fun, at others too smart for it's own good. It's big flaw: the long, drawn-out ending.

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08/01/02 09:08 AM
Michael Clawson
West Valley View
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Men at Work stinks up the joint worse than the garbage that the title characters haul.

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07/30/02 08:03 AM
Kurt Dahlke
Apollo Guide
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07/26/02 01:51 AM
Bob Grimm
Las Vegas Mercury
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The garbage man motif is pretty fitting.

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07/25/02 10:37 PM
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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Men at Work will be a painful experience even for fans of the stars.

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09/26/01 02:57 PM
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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No review available.

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01/01/01 12:00 AM
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
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Like the jokes, the brothers' rapport seems recycled from childhood. Sheen and Estevez are hardly working.

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01/01/00 12:00 AM
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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