The comedian's not challenged to do anything but mug and trip and say things inappropriately without any help of a director's use of cinematic timing.
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10/12/01
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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Chris Kattan, Richard Roundtree, Vinessa Shaw, Matthew Glave
Director: Rob Pritts
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Reviews for Corky Romano
That the acting is abysmal ... is beside the point. No one could make this stuff work.
10/12/01
Top CriticAlmost from the beginning, you're jarred by lame gags that fall horribly, embarrassingly flat.
10/12/01
Top CriticA crushingly conventional mob comedy that also borrows more than a few pages from the Adam Sandler playbook.
10/12/01
Top CriticSome adult supervision might have helped.
10/12/01
With a great many contemporary comedies mistaking excess for invention and hyperactivity for dynamism, Corky Romano displays genuine heart.
10/12/01
These days a comedy starring a Saturday Night Live performer is the cinematic equivalent of a dental cleaning.
10/12/01
It should be mandatory when critiquing a low-brow comedy to admit to having laughed -- which I did, three or four times.
10/12/01
This isn't just bad. It's an abject failure whose lame nuttiness evokes bad dinner theater more than a major studio movie.
10/12/01
Top CriticA wobbly cinematic vehicle.
10/12/01
Top CriticYou have something that alternates between great and awful and it averages out somewhere near the exact middle.
10/12/01
[Kattan] rewards us with the usual comic ratio -- a mild chuckle or two in 90 minutes or so.
10/12/01
Introduces this sissy boy of a hero and proceeds to bland out everything that's ridiculous about him.
10/12/01
Top CriticThere's one, maybe two laughs the whole time. Where's Mango when you need him?
10/12/01
Kattan is still a funny guy, but with movies as stupid as Corky Romano, his future as a movie star seems sketchy at best.
10/12/01
Pritts has no concept of comic timing, though Kattan's constant clowning and mugging would make it hard on any filmmaker.
10/12/01
All the non-Kattan scenes are padded with one-dimensional characters rehashing dumb jokes from the Police Academy playbook.
10/12/01
The concept is exhausted, the ideas are tired, the physical gags are routine, the story is labored, the actors look like they can barely contain their doubts about the project.
10/12/01
Top CriticCan best be described as 86 minutes of nonstop forgettableness.
10/12/01
Top CriticKattan joins the ranks of so many who have gone before him as someone who is funny on Saturday Night Live but not in movies.
10/12/01
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