The so-called jokes and gimmicks seem recycled from the worst of the 1960s.
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02/22/08
Company Man (2001)
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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:9
Rotten:53
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: A flat and misconceived movie with big stars.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Denis Leary
Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Reviews for Company Man
A Marx brother's script with a Stan Laurel where a Groucho should have been.
03/06/01
Co-writer-directors Peter Askin and Douglas McGrath saddle their mercenaries with ham-fisted direction and leave them exposed without the cover of a decent script.
03/08/01
At its best, Company Man hums from one piece to the next, a harmless, good-natured, often silly spoof with a few cutting barbs and a comic showman's love of the well-executed gag.
03/08/01
The film's a jaw-dropping embarrassment, making a bad movie year even worse.
03/09/01
All the characters that had been so much fun early on become largely grating.
03/08/01
Company Man is an object lesson in the difference between writing funny lines and writing a movie.
03/09/01
The rapid-fire gags are relentlessly cute and announce themselves with all the subtlety of a pounding headache.
03/16/01
Second-rate fare.
03/09/01
It all adds up to a few good bits spread thinly across an even thinner concept for a movie.
03/16/01
Wit is drowned out by caricature, and the antics become laboriously over-the-top.
10/11/01
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
The story is thin, and the film looks as if it was thrown together on a whim.
04/12/01
As bad movies go, Company Man falls less in the category of Affront to the Audience and more in the category of Non-Event.
03/09/01
Top CriticMcGrath can't decide if he wants the movie to be a satire or a broad farce.
04/26/01
McGrath is so infatuated with his own highly telegraphed silliness that even his wildest gags feel mothballed.
03/08/01
This movie looks and feels so retro, so unrelentingly unironic, that the very guilelessness of it makes you want to giggle.
03/23/01
A smart, neat little movie.
03/05/01
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
Almost bracingly unfunny.
03/06/01
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