Corky Romano (2001)
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Reviews Counted: 83
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 78
Corky Romano continues the trend of bad movies featuring SNL members. The jokes are tired and unfunny, and the slapstick feels forced.
Average Rating: 2.5/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 25
Corky Romano continues the trend of bad movies featuring SNL members. The jokes are tired and unfunny, and the slapstick feels forced.
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Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Kattan stars in this mob comedy as Corky Romano, a veterinarian with a penchant for pop music from the '80s. As a youth, Corky was kicked out of his Mafia-connected family for being an oddball. Now his long-lost father (Peter Falk) has been indicted and needs Corky to infiltrate the FBI and steal the government's evidence against him. Corky is willing to aid the relatives who so long ago turned their backs on him, but his brothers go overboard when
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Chris Kattan
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Vinessa Shaw
Kate Russo -
Peter Falk
Pops Romano -
Peter Berg
Peter Romano -
Chris Penn
Paulie Romano -
Fred Ward
Leo Corrigan -
Richard Roundtree
Howard Shuster -
Matthew Glave
Brick Davis -
Roger Fan
Agent Cox -
Dave Sheridan
Agent Darnell -
James Tupper
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All Critics (83) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (80) | DVD (17)
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.
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Top CriticEver hear about the guy who liked to pummel his head with a sledgehammer, because it felt so good when he stopped? Maybe the same fellow would appreciate Corky Romano.
It's depressing enough to sit through an unfunny comedy, but it's worse to watch Falk, Penn and Berg having to earn a living like this.
Much too tired and mean-spirited to be funny.
It's strictly for someone looking for a goof-off.
Eighth rate tired, unimaginative mob comedy.
Although Corky Romano is not based on a Saturday Night Live sketch, it is still as dismal.
Unfortunately, keeping Kattan in the forefront is also one of the main problems with the film.
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.
Somebody, somewhere, actually believed in this dreck.
...as Townes Van Zandt sang, "Living's mostly wastin' time" anyway.
Will somebody please offer Peter Falk a decent role? This 'crotchety old geezer' gig is getting tiresome.
Very, very bad.
...the majority of the jokes are obvious and crude.
Astonishingly unoriginal, unevenly paced and often just plain dumb, this is one comedy that could easily be reclassified as a tragedy -- particularly for Kattan.
I know it's a comedy because it says so on the back of the keep case.
...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.
Corky Romano gets a very limited DVD treatment. But, then again, do you know anyone eager to have it in their personal collection?
...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.
Audience Reviews for Corky Romano
Super Reviewer
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- Peter Romano: Paulie, come on already.
- Paulie Romano: Shut up!
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- Corky Romano: I should buy a boat!
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- Brick Davis: What? I can't call you Howard because I'm not part of the Groovy Tie Squad?
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- Corky Romano: "Bad dogs aren't born...they're made"
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