Welcome To Mooseport (2004)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 144
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 125
A bland comedy that squanders a talented cast.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 34
A bland comedy that squanders a talented cast.
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Movie Info
Hollywood filmmaker Donald Petrie directs the comedy Welcome to Mooseport. Gene Hackman stars as former U.S. President Monroe "The Eagle" Cole. He's retired to the small New England town of Mooseport, ME, in order to write his memoirs and relax. The retirement is put on hold, however, when he's persuaded to run for mayor of the town. Meanwhile, local hardware store owner and plumber Handy Harrison (Ray Romano) is just the sort of plaid-shirted everyman to run against him. Cole seems a sure win
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Cast
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Gene Hackman
Monroe Cole -
Ray Romano
Handy Harrison -
Marcia Gay Harden
Grace Sutherland -
Maura Tierney
Sally Mannis -
Christine Baranski
Charlotte Cole -
Fred Savage
Bullard -
Rip Torn
Langdon Bert -
June Squibb
Irma -
Wayne Robson
Morris Gutman -
John Rothman
Stu -
Karl Pruner
Dyer -
Edward Herrmann
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All Critics (151) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (125) | DVD (22)
It's a snooze on every level.
Top CriticDevoid of wit and point.
Means to satirize the TV-fueled carnivalesque nature of American electoral politics but only demonstrates the TV-fueled debasement of American commercial comedy.
[Mooseport is] like the pound cake of movies -- nice and safe and sweet, but not really worth recommending.
Pretty skimpy on fun.
Gets old faster than uncovered cheese.
For Ray Romano fans only.
Comes off less like a feature film than a failed sitcom pilot.
Welcome--now get out.
Whose story is this? Nobody's. We don't know whom we're meant to root for...
This lackluster production fails to generate much in the way of tension and less in the way of merriment.
The movie never takes its material far enough, it's never daring, it's never edgy, it's never satiric. It's just, well, it's just TV.
Charming, little comedy that amuses from start to finish.
Hollywood kids the Democrats because the love the Democrats.
The script is so weak, so illogical, so bereft of actual humour that it takes the considerable charm of the cast merely to prop it up.
Ready for a timely political comedy with Gene Hackman?
This comedy about politics in a small community must have looked good on paper, with Gene Hackman and Ray Romano on board, but it just fizzles.
Clunkily earthbound as its characters and the situations plod forward while never getting anywhere.
Lord knows we need to laugh about politics, but when it comes to salving our Oval Office wounds, Welcome to Mooseport is like taking a baby aspirin for pneumonia...
Not even accidentally amusing, is dumber than a Lyndon Larouche campaign, and features a love story that can only be described as icky. Make that two love stories, and they're both icky.
The comedy quotient, waning from the start, becomes nonexistent whenever it's placed in Romano's clumsy mitts.
a political satire that wants to be little more than a warm'n'fuzzy comedy
Prima facie evidence of Hollywood's virtual January-February non-compete clause... and proof that sustained effort does not a desirable final product make.
...deserves a swift, kick-in-the-pants goodbye.
I didn't dislike Welcome to Mooseport; I just didn't like it enough.
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