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

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.

Sandcooler "Dirty Work" is one of those somewhat rare comedies where the pieces of the puzzle just all fit. The actors have great chemistry between one another (it really seems like they're having fun), the screenplay is excellent, and the entire film bathes in a delightfully wrong atmosphere. Prison rape, dead hookers, an Asian chick biting off Chris Farley's nose, none of these things have ever been as funny as they are in this movie. "Dirty Work" sorta sank into obscurity before it had a chance to take off, perhaps because some of the dirty stuff isn't for everybody, but if you're a fan of unbelievably stupid, obvious (occasionally even "Naked Gun"-style) jokes and borderline disgusting situations (and deep down, you know you are) this movie has everything needed to be one of your favourites.

Johnnycitystar To tell you the truth this film is underrated.from being a box-office failure,To critics Panning the film to it's stupid jokes.but it is an enjoyable comedy.A Straight-forward plot,Solid Acting,pacing runs smoothly in this film though character development is a Mixed bag.and at times the jokes can be corny but it's solid and funny.The film is about two friends Mitch(Norm Macdonald) and Sam(Artie Lange) a bunch of lazy pranksters who have been pranking people for revenge for years.Evenutally Sam's dad Pop's(Jack Warden)has a heart attack and needs a heart's transplant and Mitch and Sam need $50,000 dollars for the surgery.They get jobs from construction working to working at the movies.But when they play a prank at their boss Mitch comes up with a idea to make money.Open up a revenge's business.soon enough a millionaire Travis Cole(Christopher Mcdonald) wants to a evict a building of people to build a parking lot he uses Mitch and Sam to help him evict the building and offering $50,000 Dollars to both of them.but when he double cross both of them they come up a way to get revenge at Travis Cole.The Plot is very straight-forward there are no twist or turns in this film just straight forward.nothing really surprising something you except in these type of comedies.As for character development it's A mixed Bag.Mitch and Sam are two most developed characters.For the fact one Mitch is really the smartest out of the two.with his devilish plans,and mostly getting hurt and getting the girls.Sam is the slow-dimwitted,Fat friend.He's the sidekick.A Loser,and sensitive about everything and rarely gets hurt in the film or is the joke of everything.Never gets the girl and usually starting a fight with someone.as the rest some are well developed some are underdeveloped.For example Kathy is underdeveloped you don't learn much about her character except her love for Mitch and her grandma.Jack Warden As pops is developed.the fact of being a rough boxer and his sexual obsession with hot woman.and also having sex with Mitch's mom.As the acting It's solid for this type of film.Jack Warden and Don Rickles give the most memorable performances as their characters.Don Rickles has funny scenes especially insulting Sam for being fat.Jack Warden with his Sexual Jokes about woman which brings most of the humor in the film.Norm Macdonald despite his Dead-Pan performance but really fits in his role as the prankster bum.he also brings lots of humor in the film as well when he is talking on his take recorder or the trunk prank of the hookers.Chris Farley with his over-the-top performance but his some humor as well with his nose being ripped off.As the rest they all do a good job with the film.Overall it's a solid film go see it it's enjoyable.