Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant. The dirty duo brings down a movie theater manager and hires hookers to pose as dead bodies during a live TV ad. When a wealthy developer hires the guys to trash a building (so that he can have it condemned), problems arise and a feud ensues.
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One star deduction for a couple of tasteless jokes. A half-star deduction for Norm MacDonald's hilariously terrible wardrobe of bizarrely oversized flannel shirts. Otherwise: PERFECTION.
Quite possibly the dumbest film released in my lifetime. It would be pointless to dig into the numerous and unforgivably boorish aspects of this, but I was most struck by the attempt to turn Norm Macdonald into something resembling a cool, hipster-slacker leading man, billowing across the screen in circus tents of denim, cotton, and flannel, soundtracked by Third Eye Blind and Chumbawamba. Two actually inspired scenes: Our two heroes frozen while holding dead fish in each hand as an increasingly violent gangster confrontation unfolds on the soundtrack, and Chris Farley's jukebox mishap (not the results of the mishap, which are just alright, but the actual mishap itself. this makes sense if you've seen the movie, which you should not do). I know he's not a popular guy these days but I do kind of wish Norm had gotten to make the Freddy Got Fingered type movie that I believe he was capable of.
I don't get Norm Macdonald's clothes in this. Did he dress himself or was this a conscious choice from the wardrobe department to go for that "I'm 10 and I just pick random sizes off the rack" look? I mean, I've been there... when I was 10 in the 90's.
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Goddamn this is hilarious!
It’s a shame Norm didn’t write more of these screwball comedies.
This is probably the funniest narrative comedy film I've ever seen. I laughed through the entire thing. I don't think I've done that with any other comedy movie as an adult. Fuck everyone who doesn't like this movie.
I probably wouldn’t have rated Dirty Work this highly if I didn’t love Norm Macdonald so much. This is a pretty goofy, stupid movie with a pretty thin plot.
Norm stars, but also co-wrote the script, but Norm just doesn’t seem to cut it hear. He’s funny, but his acting is pretty subpar to the point where Artie Lange looks pretty good. I’m not exactly surprised that neither man got many quality roles in films after this. Norm seems to best suited for stand up.
Lots of comedic talent appears in mostly extended cameo appearances. Chris Farley gets to be himself in what ended up being his last film appearance.
Norm Macdonald basically playing himself makes this late 90s comedy a little more memorable than the sea of others, but never gets better than being mildly amusing.
It’s nice to watch a really stupid comedy every now and again. Also I love that Norm basically gives no effort whatsoever in his performance, exactly how it should be
I forgot I saw this long ago, probably not long after it hit video as Macdonald was an upcoming star in these days during his SNL run. I actually had this film confused with Screwed, but no longer. Thanks to his recent, often amusing talk show on Netflix, I realised this and Screwed has to be revisited. And Dirty Work is a lot better than I remembered.
With these kinds of Sandler-styled productions, a lot of jokes are thrown around, and maybe only about half of them land, but when they do they’re quality, or at least so left of field they amuse simply for being truly bizarre. Macdonald and Lange make a great pair, and the supporting cast (Chevy…
An especially concentrated 90’s relic, but the concentration is nearly everything that’s bad about that epoch: the worst pop-rock soundtrack, along with legendary oafish guys getting off by repeating “whore” in one of those vaguely stitched together SNL offshoots that never seemed to work. Norm is obviously no good here - despite being a favorite stand-up comic of mine - because his entire essence requires him to not engage with his surroundings, working like he’s arrived on stage by accident, his half-comatose recollections being repeated to no one in particular. As the protagonist of a feature film, he’s forced to interact with actors in a traditional dramatic arc, though that arc is barely there (big feud with friend over the…
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