CORKY ROMANO
Given that Chris Kattan is its star, you'd be forgiven for thinking this
another mediocre Saturday Night Live sketch protracted into woefully bad
feature-length. It's not. (A) It has nothing to do with SNL. (B) It's
worse even than bottom-of-the-barrel exemplars of the genre like It's
Pat and Coneheads.
With his silly-putty mug and helium-inflected voice, Kattan is sometimes funny
on television. Never here. In fact, nothing about this movie is funny. Not its
bare-bones plot (Kattan, a cheery veterinarian partial to fruity ties and FREE
HUGS! ONE SIZE FITS ALL bumper stickers, is enlisted to pose as an FBI agent
and burgle evidence incriminating his mob-boss father). Not the tired
slapstick. Not the pratfalls. Not a snake sliding down Corky's pant leg. Not
Chris Penn and Peter Berg as (respectively) Corky's latently homosexual and
secretly illiterate brothers. Not Corky's crotch, wired for sound. Not his
heroic efforts to squeeze a fart into his brothers' faces. Not even gruff and
grizzled Peter Falk (the film's only hint of a bright spot) spouting lines like
"C'mere, you friggin' retard." This was Rob Pritt's directorial debut; let's
hope he'll learn from his mistakes. And let's hope Chris Kattan decides to
stick with TV. At the Apple Valley, Entertainment, Holiday, Hoyts Providence
16, Showcase, and Tri-Boro cinemas.
Issue Date: October 12 - 18, 2001
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