MitchCreated by Norm MacDonald and Frank Sebastiano
Mitch
Created by Norm MacDonald and Frank
Sebastiano
This vehicle for Saturday Night Live refugee Norm MacDonald plays as a spoof of TV's Vengeance Unlimited, except that they were both almost assuredly in production at the same time. Losers Mitch (MacDonald), and his pal, SAM (Artie Lange), find themselves in dire need of $50,000 - fast! Lacking any real skills, they decide to go into the revenge-for-hire business.
Typical sort of Saturday Night Live stuff, with nothing really funny going on here according to most accounts, despite the presence of a whole slew of comics, including fellow SNL alumni Chevy Chase, Adam Sandler and the late Chris Farley, as well as Don Rickles and Gary Coleman. Directed by Bob (TV's Funniest Home Videos) Saget. Rated PG-13 for crude sexual humor and language.
On the other hand, Max Allan Collins
says "If you haven't seen it, you shouldn't take the word
of those idiotic critics: Dirty Work is hysterically funny,
at least for those among us who appreciate Norm MacDonald's deadpan
black humor. I understand that people aren't supposed to like
this movie -- that doesn't stop it from being the funniest movie
I saw last year....In addition to Norm being great in it, it represents
Chris Farley's last film role and is an extremely funny postscript
to his too short career. Dirty Work defines political incorrectness,
as witness the single funniest scene in the picture, which involves
prison rape. Both my wife and teenage son are in complete agreement
with me about Norm and Dirty Work, and plan to have a Dirty
Work party (as soon as the laser disc arrives) to determine
once and for all which of our friends actually have senses of
humor."
UNDER OATH
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