Corky Romano Movie Review 2001

Remember when ex-SNL cast members made good movies? Yeah, neither do they. Kattan is the title character--a spastic, twitchy veterinary assistant, estranged from his mob family, who's so naive, he thinks his Pops (Falk) is actually a landscaping mogul. He is talked into infiltrating the FBI to retrieve evidence against the family by gruff henchman Leo (Ward), the actual stool pigeon talking to the feds. His frantic bumbling is mistaken for genius by his FBI superior Schuster (Roundtree) and hottie special agent Kate (Shaw). The plot is just dressing for Kattan's "funny-looking rubbery guy knocks everything over" routine, and he plays it like Jerry Lewis without the subtlety. First "Night at the Roxbury," then "Monkeybone" and now this? Can someone get Kattan a script consultant? Please?

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 85 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Genre Spoofs, Organized Crime, Slapstick Comedy, FBI, Women Cops, Not-So-True Identity, Dads, Brothers & Sisters, So I Amuse You?

Screenplay

David Garrett, Jason Ward

Cast

Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk, Peter Berg, Christopher Penn, Fred Ward, Richard Roundtree, Matthew Glave, Dave Sheridan, Roger Fan

Cinematography

Steven Bernstein

Director

Rob Pritts

Music

Randy Edelman

Other

Kim Harris Ornitz, Lisa Brown, Alan Cody, Thomas Voth, Peter Politanoff

Producer

Robert Simonds, Touchstone Pictures