Considering all the talented people involved with Welcome to Mooseport -- including a great cast -- you can't help but wish it were funnier. Even just a little bit.
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02/20/04
Welcome to Mooseport (2004)
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Reviews Counted:143
Fresh:19
Rotten:124
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: A bland comedy that squanders a talented cast.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: The quiet, charming town of Mooseport, Maine is invaded by the former president of the country in this Capraesque comedy starring Ray Romano and Gene Hackman. Monroe "The Eagle" Cole (Gene Hackman)... [More]
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski
Director: Donald Petrie
Reviews for Welcome to Mooseport
A dud of a comedy that wastes a top-notch cast on a ridiculous premise.
02/20/04
A soothing buddy movie.
02/20/04
A tremendous waste of Academy Award-caliber talent.
02/20/04
Top Critic[Hackman and Romano] work well together here, and Tierney does a heroic job of playing a character who doesn't know how the story will end, when everybody else, in the cast and in the audience, has an excellent idea.
02/20/04
Top CriticSilly comedies generally don't fare all that well at over 90 minutes, and Welcome to Mooseport is no exception.
02/20/04
The outcome of the election is never in doubt in this fluff, and neither is the dramatic face-off.
02/20/04
A disappointingly limp small-town farce played several shades too broadly by a cast that has done better work elsewhere.
02/20/04
If you're looking for inoffensive material that will occasionally draw a chuckle, Welcome to Mooseport is for you.
02/20/04
Lazy screenwriting drags down the efforts of two Oscar winners... surrounding a television star making an unexciting leap onto the big screen
02/20/04
Instead of letting Romano face big-league pitching (which I think he can handle), the filmmakers reduce the rest of the cast to playing softball.
02/20/04
Mooseport is one of those dreaded middle-of-the-road comedies. It's a friendly, nicety-nice, mock-funny, play-it-safe and use-all-the-cliche's-we-got style deal. Yech.
02/20/04
“Welcome to Mooseport” is a well worn story about the rich and powerful versus the average Joe, with a love interest tossed in, and does nothing new.
02/20/04
It seems as long as the presidential primary season.
02/20/04
Welcome to Mooseport has its share of clever ideas ... yet the picture is packaged with so little flair that’s it’s difficult to love.
02/20/04
If these guys were really running for office, both candidates would have to withdraw due to lack of interest (especially the audience's).
02/20/04
Just isn’t mean spirited enough to give us genuine small town comedy.
02/20/04
TV comedy king Ray Romano makes his first foray into feature film in a spectacularly unfunny comedy.
02/20/04
"White House meets outhouse" comedy isn't fit to serve, and Marcia Gay Harden and Maura Tierney outshine stars Gene Hackman and Ray Romano.
02/19/04
Not since Death to Smoochy has a comedy underachieved so pathetically.
02/19/04
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