Gone Fishin' (1997)
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 25
Sloppy, formulaic, and unfunny, Gone Fishin' marks a painful low point in the careers of its two talented leads.
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9
Sloppy, formulaic, and unfunny, Gone Fishin' marks a painful low point in the careers of its two talented leads.
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Movie Info
Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green (Danny Glover) are two guys from New Jersey who've known each other since childhood; they've always been friends, and they've always been inept to the point of posing a threat to life and limb (early on in the proceedings, we get to watch them blow up a factory by accident). Joe and Gus are avid fishermen, and as luck would have it, they win a trip to the Everglades to do some
May 30, 1997 Wide
Mar 4, 2003
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Cast
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Joe Pesci
Joe Waters -
Danny Glover
Gus Green -
Rosanna Arquette
Rita -
Lynn Whitfield
Angie -
Willie Nelson
Billy (Catch) Pooler -
Nick Brimble
Dekker Massey -
Maury Chaykin
Kirk The Waiter -
Gary Grubbs
Phil Beasly -
Carol Kane
Donna Waters -
Edythe Davis
Cookie Green
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (25) | DVD (1)
This is one of the summer's sorrier excuses for a major-studio release.
Top CriticI don't even know where to start.
It is testimony to the superior acting skills of Joe Pesci and Danny Glover that Gone Fishin' registers more than a blip on the summer movie radar screen.
Big mistake.
Film is so formulaic that virtually every plot point is telegraphed way in advance.
This is a film that misses the boat right from the start through an improper mixture of fools.
Gone Fishin' is a slapdash, slapstick waste of time -- hook, line and stinker.
They only highlight the sheer, witless desperation of all involved.
Dumb n dumber middle agers Glover & Pesci in land and sea adventures.
A terrible ride with two idiotic characters.
Like any Pesci outing post-Goodfellas, this can be described with one word; that word is 'hackneyed'.
I hope the person that greenlighted this was fired.
Without question one of the stupidest comedies I've ever seen.
Comedies about fishing have never worked, not even for Howard Hawks.
There's certainly nothing inherently clever about the premise.
Joe Pesci and Danny Glover need to get their agents on the phone, pronto.
An unfunny, meandering film attempting to be a comedy.
Audience Reviews for Gone Fishin'
Super Reviewer
Gone Fishin' is a decent comedy movie and has some funny parts such as the scene when Joe Pesci gets struck by lightning, but overall it's not that great. Joe Pesci and Danny Glover are two of the best comedy movie actors and Gone Fishin' is a subpar movie for both of them. It is interesting to see how the movie will turn out and what's gonna happen next when they start getting plagued by all the disasters, but the comedy portion of the movie for the most part is just not there. None of the jokes are funny and what I really didn't like about it was that the name of the movie is Gone Fishin', but they never actually get to do any fishing the entire movie!
If you've seen other Joe Pesci or Danny Glover movies, you'll find out that Gone Fishin' is not that great of a movie for them when you compare it to such movies as Home Alone and Lethal Weapon 4. However, I guess I would recommend renting this movie if you're dying to see a new comedy movie. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. It's indeed a subpar movie for Pesci and Glover's standards, but still worth a watch.
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