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Corky Romano (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 4
Rotten:78
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Consensus: Corky Romano continues the trend of bad movies featuring SNL members. The jokes are tired and unfunny, and the slapstick feels forced.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for drug and sex-related humor, and for language
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 12, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $23,023,734
Synopsis: Over the years, television's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has been the playground and jumping off point for an impressive number of comic superstars who nimbly made the transition from television to the big... Over the years, television's SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE has been the playground and jumping off point for an impressive number of comic superstars who nimbly made the transition from television to the big screen, including John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Steve Martin. Recently that tradition has continued with the rising careers of funny men and women like Adam Sandler, Mike Meyers, David Spade, and Molly Shannon. Chris Kattan is the newest SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE veteran to make the leap to film in this delirious screwball comedy. Kattan stars as CORKY ROMANO, a goofy misfit born into a powerful crime family who is rejected for being too normal and haplessly continues his life as a gentle veterinarian. One day Corky is shocked to receive a phone call from Pops (Peter Falk), his estranged Godfather-like father who is being indicted by the Grand Jury. It seems Corky is his father's last hope, he has hatched a plan to send his bumbling son undercover into the F.B.I. where he will be able to steal all evidence of his family's misdeeds. The only problem is: Corky's resume is desperately inflated by his intellectually challenged brothers (Chris Penn and Peter Berg) and the F.B.I. not only accepts him, they believe that he is speaks five languages and is Harvard-educated and is a super agent. Suddenly Kattan is forced to live up to his super-agent status, hunting down powerful drug lords and engaging in top-secret missions while he scrambles to find and destroy the evidence against his father. Kattan is a master of physical comedy, bumbling and goofing his way into the hearts of his coworkers who he miraculously impresses in this antic-filled Jerry Lewis-like performance. [More]
Starring: Chris Kattan, Richard Roundtree, Vinessa Shaw, Matthew Glave
Starring: Chris Kattan, Richard Roundtree, Vinessa Shaw, Matthew Glave, Dave Sheridan, Chris Penn, Peter Berg, Roger Fan
Director: Rob Pritts
Director: Rob Pritts
Screenwriter: David Garrett, Jason Ward
Producer: Robert Simonds, Tracey Trench
Composer: Randy Edelman
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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May 14, 2002
Reviews for Corky Romano
Unlike the pathetic protagonists of many a smart dumb comedy, Corky never becomes sympathetic, and without this fundamental irony the movie doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Although Corky Romano is not based on a Saturday Night Live sketch, it is still as dismal.
Chris Kattan should have been in silent comedy. He has the Silly Putty face of those old slapstick stars, and a sing-song, splitting-headache vox box that would have played much better in the silents.
Some of the silliness actually elicits laughter. Not terribly surprising, however, is that there's not enough of that laughter.
Will somebody please offer Peter Falk a decent role? This 'crotchety old geezer' gig is getting tiresome.
Astonishingly unoriginal, unevenly paced and often just plain dumb, this is one comedy that could easily be reclassified as a tragedy -- particularly for Kattan.
...his new FBI name is Corky Pissant, pronounced just the way it sounds, and the rest of the humor in the movie doesn't get any better.
...has a wacky side, but the wackiness does not tread outside the boundaries of the story.
The film is merely a myopic footnote that cannot match its own nonsensical raucous tone.
There’s a difference between showmanship and showing off, and Kattan has not yet learned that.
It's surprising some of the silliness actually elicits laughter. Not terribly surprising, however, is that there's not enough of that laughter.
How can you describe a movie that fails so completely in every possible way, its mere existence leaves you flummoxed?
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