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
Men at Work (1990)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:6
Rotten:13
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... [More]
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Darrell Larson, John Getz
Director: Emilio Estevez
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Reviews for Men at Work
1 - 19 (sorted by critic A-Z)
Top CriticMen at Work stinks up the joint worse than the garbage that the title characters haul.
07/30/02
Men at Work will be a painful experience even for fans of the stars.
09/26/01
Like the jokes, the brothers' rapport seems recycled from childhood. Sheen and Estevez are hardly working.
01/01/00
Top CriticIn fairness to the two actors, who have appeared in much better films, they don't have much to work with here.
03/23/03
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.
06/24/06
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,
02/04/08
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.
05/24/03
At times fun, at others too smart for it's own good. It's big flaw: the long, drawn-out ending.
08/01/02
Lame trash men comedy, early Estevez and Sheen.
02/23/08
Just tell me why?
02/02/03
Banal brotherly project concocted up by real life siblings Sheen and Estevez. An uneven and unfunny ruse under the dour direction of Estevez
05/31/03
Golf clap!
04/06/03
The garbage man motif is pretty fitting.
07/25/02
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07/26/02
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07/05/05
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01/17/05
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08/31/05
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