Release Date:
10/12/2001
Movies starring SNL cast members are like wimpy kids who always get beaten up yet insist on going to the playground anyway. Its become boring even to harp on their inability to sustain a joke for an entire movie, their lame premises, their recycled jokes
we just dont have the energy anymore. From the first commercial you saw for Corky Romano, you knew what it was all about.
While Chris Kattan isnt nearly as annoying as, say, Molly Shannon in Superstar or Julia Sweeny in Its Pat, he not only cant carry Corky Romano, he gets upstaged by his own clothing. With a supporting cast that includes Peter Falk, Chris Penn, Fred Ward, and Richard Roundtree, youd be forgiven for thinking that there might be something worth salvaging from this movie. And you would also be wrong. While one or two weak laughs might be good for an SNL skit, its death for a movie. You know its bad when Kattan cant even deliver a cameo from Will Ferrell, who not only might have provided a chuckle, but who also seems willing to pop up in anything with opening credits. (We think we caught Ferrell in a friends wedding video once). If Corky Romano and the rest of the Not Ready for Movie Theaters Players are any indication, Lorne Michaels gang is to film history what General Shermans troops were to Georgia architecture.
While Chris Kattan isnt nearly as annoying as, say, Molly Shannon in Superstar or Julia Sweeny in Its Pat, he not only cant carry Corky Romano, he gets upstaged by his own clothing. With a supporting cast that includes Peter Falk, Chris Penn, Fred Ward, and Richard Roundtree, youd be forgiven for thinking that there might be something worth salvaging from this movie. And you would also be wrong. While one or two weak laughs might be good for an SNL skit, its death for a movie. You know its bad when Kattan cant even deliver a cameo from Will Ferrell, who not only might have provided a chuckle, but who also seems willing to pop up in anything with opening credits. (We think we caught Ferrell in a friends wedding video once). If Corky Romano and the rest of the Not Ready for Movie Theaters Players are any indication, Lorne Michaels gang is to film history what General Shermans troops were to Georgia architecture.