Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Intelligent Reviewing A very dumb film, Norm Macdonald can come across as observational funny & truthful on a tv set or standup, sketch show etc but this films script is unremittingly bad and the film blows, up a tree down a tree ... prosaic, you see every scene, plot device, setup and practically every line coming before it happens, if your above a certain age, all the cameo's are almost prosaic, a pointless use of people who are a bit past themselves, Norm does not translate to the cinema in this film. No strong chemistry between arte and norm. a film to really pass, maybe it would have been a 4 out of 10 - 25 years ago now it's a 2 merely for the fact that the film has bearable production values and because any film is a great deal of work to make, but just ideas wise its real dirty dumb work. 2 or 3 lines worked for me from a humour perspective, but they didn't even have an impact long enough to be remembered after the film ends. makes me wonder whether national lampoons or any of the frat comedies have aged any better? the world today has moved on and this film wasn't great to begin with but has aged badly.

Python Hyena Dirty Work (1998): Dir: Bob Saget / Cast: Norm MacDonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, Christopher McDonald, Chevy Chase: Good concept suggests people doing what they shouldn't, such as making this film in the first place. It stars Norm MacDonald who is a failure at everything except revenge. He is kicked out of his apartment then learns that his best friend's father may also be his. He is warned not to spill the beans. He needs $50,000 for a heart transplant so he opens a revenge for hire business where he will perform odd stunts for a fee. Appealing concept condemned to formula and an ending that justifies revenge. Director Bob Saget does his best to create interesting situations and locations. MacDonald is totally unsympathetic and Artie Lange as his best friend cannot act. Together they create these stunts that might have worked given better writers. Jack Warden is typecast as the hospitalized father who is all about punching MacDonald in the crotch and plainly being angry in general. Christopher McDonald plays the typical villain whom MacDonald will play off as a justified revenge tactic. Chevy Chase is also wasted as a surgeon with a gambling dept but the only thing he really gambles is a once flourishing career. Someone should have hired these guys to write a decent screenplay, or at least prevent this stupid crap from being seen in any public venue. Score: 3 / 10

Scott LeBrun Words to live by in comic Norm Macdonalds' first big film vehicle, directed by none other than Bob Saget. Speaking as a fan of Macdonald, I've always just loved his delivery. The man could say practically anything, and I'd still chuckle. Here he works with other comedy pros and established actors to create a gleefully un-P.C., ridiculous movie that's just fun from beginning to end.Co-written by Macdonald, "Dirty Work" stars him as Mitch, kind of a loser in life who finally realizes what he's best at: getting revenge when somebody does him wrong. Together with his best friend Sam (Artie Lange), he decides that this will be his line of work. However, they do need to come up with $50,000 rather quickly to pay a gambling addict doctor (Chevy Chase) to pull some strings to get Sams' dad 'Pops' (Jack Warden) a new heart. Trouble brews when rich bastard Travis Cole (Christopher McDonald) plays Mitch and Sam for fools and some innocent people get booted out of their homes. So the two buddies save the best revenge of all for the nefarious Cole.Examples of the kinds of lunacy in this movie include "dead" prostitutes in car trunks, frat boys tricked into picking a fight with cops, the raunchy spin on "Men in Black" that Mitch and Sam play at a theatre, Mitchs' frequent "notes to self" dictations into a pocket tape recorder, and a highly unlikely choice of music for a fight scene in a bar. Macdonald does alright in his first lead, and isn't bad when he's required to actually act. Lange makes for a good sidekick. It's nice to see veteran Warden be so feisty (and randy). Traylor Howard is cute as the requisite love interest. McDonald is perfect in the kind of jerk role that he was clearly born to play. Don Rickles has fun doing his traditional insult humour as a crabby movie theatre owner. David Koechner has a small role as the proprietor of a car dealership. And there are assorted lively cameos by a couple of familiar faces. The verbal and visual jokes keep coming and everything is wrapped up within a very reasonable 82 minutes. Best of all, there's a few outtakes to enjoy during the end credits.This is one of those riotous movies that can hold up to repeat viewings, especially if one is an admirer of any of the comedic talent here. It's highly recommended.Eight out of 10.

Steve Pulaski Dirty Work isn't so much a film as a competition for "how many filthy jokes can we incorporate in a seventy-six minute film?" That kind of thesis for a comedy is almost always lethal because we get no opportunities for humanity or genuine laughs since the film constantly feels the dreary obligation to one-up itself. Here's a film that is so perfunctory and foreseeable in its setups and deliveries that I'd be convinced if the screenwriter and the director thought of this film over a coffee break and decided to carry out everything right then and there.The film was directed by Bob Saget, who you'd know as the whitest, cleanest, and most supportive sitcom daddy in existence on the classic program Full House. Saget is famous for leading a life contradicting to his clean-persona on the show, often performing the filthiest, crassest standup you're likely to ever hear. For this reason, it is unsurprising his directorial effort plays much like his standup in terms of predictably raunchy material that lacks heart and craft.The film follows Mitch Weaver (Norm Macdonald) and Sam McKenna (Artie Lange), two lifelong buddies who have gone their entire lives exacting revenge on people for the smallest offenses. They stage elaborate attacks on the people they can't stand in order to gain a small sense of satisfaction. When Sam's father (Jack Warden) has a heart attack and is in need of a heart transplant, the guys learn the doctor can get the man immediate attention if they pay off the doctor (Chevy Chase) $50,000 so that he can pay off his enormous gambling debt.They decide to open a revenge business called "Dirty Work," which thrives off of people calling in and getting Mitch and Sam to exact revenge on people that make their callers tick. One of the reasons the film doesn't work is that the attacks are simple and, overall, underwhelming. With more intricate planning and craft, the payoffs for these offenses could've been rewarding and hilarious. Instead, they are childish and redundant.It also doesn't help that Mitch and Sam are two of the most archetypal, cliché protagonists in any comedy I've ever seen. They're so thin, wooden, and void of personality they feel like robots programmed to do and say things that are allegedly funny. Macdonald and Lange are average comedic talents, and here, they can't do too much with the script (which was somehow the product of three people) that forbids and character or development from sneaking past the abundance of clichés and predictable plot lines.Even so-called "late night comedies" and "stoner films" need to achieve some sort of quality and Dirty Work doesn't possess the characteristics of being memorable or creative enough to achieve them. It is an overly-silly, ridiculous film that gets even more ridiculous when it feels the need to allow plot lines like romance and fighting to elbow themselves into the picture. Saget may have craft when it comes to juggling personas, but he also shows that he has talent for making one of the most frustrating comedies of the nineties I have yet to see.Starring: Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, and Chevy Chase. Directed by: Bob Saget.