Squeezing a laugh out of the nearly dead-on-arrival The Crew is like trying to wrench a supplemental Medicare plan from the clutches of a protesting HMO.
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01/01/00
The Crew (2000)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:15
Rotten:65
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Though the four actors are good together, the jokes are stale and not funny.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: For a quartet of former wiseguys and lifelong friends, retirement is a degrading bore. Joey "Bats" (Burt Reynolds) is stuck working at Burger King, Bobby (Richard Dreyfuss) spends his time scouring... [More]
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel
Director: Michael Dinner
Reviews for The Crew
As toothless as the denture-wearing astronaut in Space Cowboys.
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Written in a generic style that was probably intended as satire of the Mafia-film genre, but that comes across as merely lame and hackneyed.
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This is pure sitcom, the characters are all clichés, and if it wasn't for the situation there'd be no jokes at all.
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The comedy is consistent throughout the movie, and it is often very funny.
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Just an elongated version of a bad TV sitcom, wedding geriatric slapstick and schmaltz.
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A cheapie production buoyed by a few funny jokes and a cast that knows how to handle them.
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At best, the film works like a geriatric version of The Sopranos. At it's worst, it's Cocoon with swearing and shootouts.
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Basically a TV movie-of-the-week that's been dressed up with big names.
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On the whole, these talented guys are reduced to swimming in an ocean of cinematic silliness -- stupid lines and even lamer situations.
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The problem is the movie's witless script ... can never decide whether it wants to be Grumpy Old Men III or GoodFellas II and it comes up short on both counts.
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Don't let the cast fool you.
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For all its violent gestures, this one screams safety, safety, safety, never taking anything like a real chance, never going anywhere unruly or unpredictable in its dogged allegiance to blandness.
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The Crew may think it's hitting a Soprano high note but in reality it's just sleeping with the fishes.
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Most any movie, even a bad one, has some particular quality that stands out as its strong point ... With The Crew, however, there is a consistent lack of excellence.
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Amusing and entertaining, if instantly forgettable diversion.
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Most of the humor in the film is just too sporadic and weak.
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The movie is so mild, so benign, its humiliation-to-vindication arc so predictable and its old-folks jokes so feeble that you want them to start shooting the remake immediately.
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