Dirty Work . Tucson Weekly . 07-13-98

Dirty Work

DIRECTED BY: Bob Saget

REVIEWED: 07-13-98

Norm Macdonald has the sort of face and attitude that's funny even if he just stands there doing nothing. Unfortunately, in Dirty Work, Macdonald runs around spewing stillborn half-jokes and pulling unimaginative revenge schemes on stereotypical villains. Big dogs hump big dogs; skunks hump little dogs; Macdonald gets ass-raped in jail; the highly obnoxious Artie Lange (Mad TV) and highly dead Chris Farley try to squeeze laughs out of their corpulence; Gary Coleman and Adam Sandler appear for so-over-the-top-they're-under-the-bottom cameos; Chevy Chase and Don Rickles do what they always do, tiredly--and none of it is funny. Then again, if you willingly go to a movie directed by Bob Saget (of America's Stupidest Home Videos fame), you have no one to blame but yourself.

--Woodruff

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