Release Date:
Friday, March 3, 2000
Not even an army of Hollywood starsBette Midler, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Neve Campbellcan save Mona from dying a well-deserved death. This humorless flop falls about 100 yards short of black comedy, and the jokes stink even worse than the corpse in question. After trailer-trash diva Mona Dearly (Midler) drives her Yugo off a cliff; small-town police chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) discovers her watery death was no accident. Since every last resident of Verplanck, New York hated the old bag, everyones a suspect. As DeVito investigates, the rest of the inbred characters start knocking each other off, sorta like a Tarantino version of The Andy Griffith Show. Oh, and this is a comedy.
Highlight? Jamie Lee Curtis 1984 hockey haircut. Lowlight? Everything else. Whodunit? Who careswe find career-challenged director Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity) guilty of attempted satire.
Highlight? Jamie Lee Curtis 1984 hockey haircut. Lowlight? Everything else. Whodunit? Who careswe find career-challenged director Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity) guilty of attempted satire.