Living in the UK I know very little about 'Saturday Night Live' comedy and I went in to this film with very little expectations and was pleasantly surprised with the result. In fact it turned out to be the funniest film that I have seen for a long while. It's laugh a minute stuff, serving up a lot of crude humour with a few daft situations which cannot fail to draw a snigger. The plot is simple:- a loser (Norm MacDonald) has to raise $50,000 to help get a heart donor for his best friends dad (Veteran actor, Jack Warden in fine form) so to do this the buddies set up their own 'revenge for hire' business with hilarious consequences. Watch out for humorous cameos by the likes of Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, John Goodman and Gary Coleman.
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Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
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April 16, 2019 at 07:02 PM
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Felt dirty for laughing. Felt good for eye raising.
Directions by the late Bob Saget and starring the late Norm Macdonald who's funny but not a very good actor, this slob comedy has moments of spit take style comedy but more that are eye raising and fowl and often cruel. MacDonald and his friend/ secret brother Artie Lange (not funny or a decent actor at all) start a Revenge business to pay for McDonald's grandfather Jack Warden heart transplant. He's an old geezer and curmudgeon who says exactly what he thinks, and he is funny and a good actor, delivering even the most idiotic of lines with great class and a sparkle. It was one of his last roles after a 50+ year career on stage and screen, as well as the last role for Chris Farley who appears in an unfunny cameo.
Chris McDonald (no relation to Norm) plays one of his patented villains, and he's actually much more likable than the two leads, seeking revenge on the revenge squad for ruining his efforts to bulldoze a neighborhood to build a parking lot. Traylor Howard is cute as the girl who likes Norm but despises what he does, but she isn't serviced well by this film. There are also cameos by Adam Sandler as Satan, Gary Coleman, John Goodman and Don Rickles as a movie theater owner whom the pair briefly work for and destroy because of his rude treatment of the staff. His segment is pretty funny as is the revenge on a car dealership filming a commercial. Chevy Chase has a larger supporting part as Warden's doctor who is addicted to gambling. When this film is funny, is laugh out loud, hysterically funny, but when the gags bomb, they stink like a rotten egg.
"I've never seen so many dead hookers in all my life."
There's a reason I don't seek out films featuring SNL alumIni and this one shows why. I call it trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator, with juvenile attempts at humor and appalling writing. Norm MacDonald and Artie Lange are the leads here, as partners and 'brothers' who go into the revenge for hire business. They get some back up help from former SNL cast members Chevy Chase and Chris Farley, along with a quick cameo by Adam Sandler as Satan. The only appealing character here for this viewer was Traylor Howard as Kathy, proving you don't have to be a goofball to appear in what purports to be a comedy.
Quick question - who thought it was a good idea for Ken Norton to knock out Gary Coleman?