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Men at Work (1990)
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 7
Rotten:14
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... 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. [More]
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Darrell Larson, John Getz
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Darrell Larson, John Getz, Leslie Hope, Keith David, Dean Cameron, Geoffrey Blake, John Putch, Tommy Hinkley, Sy Richardson, Kari Whitman, Troy Evans
Director: Emilio Estevez
Director: Emilio Estevez
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Reviews for Men at Work
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,
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.
Banal brotherly project concocted up by real life siblings Sheen and Estevez. An uneven and unfunny ruse under the dour direction of Estevez
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.
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.
In fairness to the two actors, who have appeared in much better films, they don't have much to work with here.
At times fun, at others too smart for it's own good. It's big flaw: the long, drawn-out ending.
Men at Work stinks up the joint worse than the garbage that the title characters haul.
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