Gone Fishin'

Joe Pesci and Danny Glover need to get their agents on the phone, pronto. Gone Fishin' is one of the most mindlessly banal so-called comedies ever made. The movie tries to re-create the hackneyed buddy-film formula, à la Cheech and Chong, but ends up more like a painfully interminable episode of Three's Company.

Pesci and Glover play Joe and Gus, a dimwitted (some might say mentally challenged) duo who set off on a long-awaited fishing trip to the Everglades. Needless to say, nothing goes as planned, and the hapless pair bumble through a series of mishaps involving unfriendly alligators, sinister bad guys, and blown-up hotel rooms. Spewing sparkling catchphrases like "Holy smokes!", the accident-prone twosome finally prevail, but there's nothing here amusing enough to justify two hours of your time. At the Harbour Mall, Holiday, Lincoln Mall, Showcase Cinemas (North Attleboro only), Tri-Boro, Warwick Mall, and Woonsocket cinemas.

-- Clarissa Cruz