For a film called Dirty Work, what ensues is rather clean of spirit.
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01/01/00
Dirty Work (1998)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:5
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.9/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: MacDonald stars as Mitch Weaver, a down on his luck guy who has been annoying to most everyone who has crossed him. In an effort to raise money for one of his pals, Mitch embarks on a freelance... [More]
Starring: Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Don Rickles, Christopher McDonald
Director: Bob Saget
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Reviews for Dirty Work
Don't bother to hang around for the outtakes. They're not funny either.
01/01/00
Top CriticA stupid lowdown vulgar comedy.
01/01/00
Top CriticDidn't provide enough good jokes to sustain anything more than a half hour TV program.
01/01/00
Attempts to carry on the comedic-vengeance tradition, with arguably mixed results.
01/01/00
A tone-deaf, scattershot and dispiritingly cheesy affair with more groans than laughs.
02/14/01
Top CriticThe outrageousness isn't consistently sustained, and the pic tends to peter out somewhere around the two thirds mark.
06/02/08
Top CriticOccasionally funny, but all too often driven by the juvenile conviction that anything even remotely connected with homosexuality is riotously funny...
06/02/08
Pretty poor as a movie, but hilarious as a vehicle for its unique star.
01/01/00
Worthless but awfully earnest slapstick from Macdonald, who ain't finding the Big Screen quite so simple.
01/01/00
It's no epic, but what do you want? DiCaprio?
01/01/00
...proves that a comedy doesn't need an R rating to be crude, rude, or stupid. Even an innocent PG-13 can do the trick.
04/08/01
: "Saturday Night Live" alum Norm Macdonald's feature debut ain't great, but he is.
11/07/02
Why does Hollywood think that everyone who ever appeared on "Saturday Night Live" deserves a film career as a reward? What's the excuse for showcasing Norm Macdonald, a third-rate Dennis Miller knockoff whose delivery is slower than Priority Mail?
06/23/02
[A] screamingly awful, achingly unfunny comedy...
01/01/00
A ribald flood of comic bliss.
04/14/06
A movie that makes even Don Rickles unfunny.
01/01/00
The jokes just aren't funny, and Macdonald's sardonic, 'non-acting' style of acting quickly becomes tiresome.
01/01/00
Tasteless? Oh, yeah.
04/12/02
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