The so-called jokes and gimmicks seem recycled from the worst of the 1960s.
02/22/08 03:15 AM
Company Man (2001)
15 %
Reviews Counted: 61 Fresh: 9 Rotten:52 Average Rating: 3.3/10
Runtime: 81 mins
Synopsis:
COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling, gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Denis Leary, Alan Cumming
Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Screenwriter: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Producer: John Penotti, James W. Skotchdopole, Rick Leed
Screenwriter: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Producer: John Penotti, James W. Skotchdopole, Rick Leed
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10/21/02 08:01 AM
A breezy, originally plotted film... [sunk] by its jitterbug tone and McGrath's jittery screen presence.
09/03/02 04:04 PM
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08/09/02 08:01 AM
McGrath aims for the humor of early Woody Allen. He doesn't even achieve the humor of early Austin Powers.
06/20/02 01:26 PM
Wit is drowned out by caricature, and the antics become laboriously over-the-top.
10/11/01 01:28 PM
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09/04/01 02:34 PM
McGrath can't decide if he wants the movie to be a satire or a broad farce.
04/26/01 06:01 PM
With its incredible vanishing hero and its forgettable jokes, there's nothing to stick with you, nothing that sticks out enough to recommend.
04/12/01 06:30 PM
The story is thin, and the film looks as if it was thrown together on a whim.
04/12/01 06:28 PM
Given the disastrous state of the final product, it's hard not to wonder if it was worth all the blood, sweat and celluloid.
04/12/01 05:26 PM
I'm astonished that even at 81 minutes the film contained not even one little chuckle.
04/05/01 01:24 PM
The quality of jokes in Company Man can be divided into three categories -- lame, lamer and lamest.
03/27/01 04:10 PM
This movie looks and feels so retro, so unrelentingly unironic, that the very guilelessness of it makes you want to giggle.
03/23/01 10:13 PM
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03/20/01 09:42 PM
The rapid-fire gags are relentlessly cute and announce themselves with all the subtlety of a pounding headache.
03/16/01 04:30 PM
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