Directed By:Bob Saget
Written By:Frank Sebastiano, Norm MacDonald, Fred Wolf
Dirty Work
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Generally Unfavorable
24
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Generally Unfavorable
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The joy of Dirty Work is in Macdonald's observational writing and sardonic delivery. Because he and director Bob Saget never take the film too seriously, nearly every scene transcends the ordinariness of the movie's plot line by giving way to Macdonald's charisma. [15 Jun 1998, p.32]
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There's an audience for this sort of rude and rough comedy, though it might consist mostly of guys who wear raincoats a lot and prefer their women on glossy paper with staples. [13 Jun 1998, p.C3]
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Jul 16, 2022
10
Criminally underrated. This is a comedy movie not Shakespeare in Love, and comedy is not universal as to what’s good or bad, so you’ll either love it or you won’t like it because your humors are all out of whack.
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Crass, juvenile, ribald. [19 Jun 1998, p.B2]
25
The dialogue is so insipid, the jokes so sophomoric, one gets the feeling Saget called in a favor to the Olsen twins on a day the pair were feeling particularly naughty. [15 Jun 1998]
25
Dirty Work was directed by Bob Saget, who always seemed slightly embarrassed by his enormous success as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos. Now he's got something else to be slightly embarrassed about.
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A painfully unfunny vehicle for Norm Macdonald, who here shows exactly why he was ousted from NBC's Saturday Night Live. [13 Jun 1998, p.27]
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Macdonald is unaccountably bland here, which is unexpected since his lo-level, monotone snottiness is usually at least good for a grin or two. With Dirty Work though, he's fashioned an 80-minute harangue out of 10 minutes of material, an SNL sketch gone horribly awry, and one that drags on long after its daily ration of humor has been exhausted.
Mar 16, 2023
4
Fun, low stakes and mixed effort. Some good chuckles worked throughout and some decent recurring bits, some work much better than others.
