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Visitors since
April 1999.
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CORKY ROMANO
 
Starring Chris Kattan, Peter Falk, Peter Berg,
Chris Penn, Vinessa Shaw and Richard Roundtree
Director Rob Pritts
Canadian Rating PG
Released by Touchstone Pictures - 10/01
“Corky Romano” is one of the thinnest comedies ever made. Not only is the foundation for the humor as stable as pudding skin, the execution of all the jokes and physical slapstick seems to be the work of pre-school students. I’m guessing the only thing more predictable than this movie would be watching it a second time.
Chris Kattan, who can be funny on “Saturday Night Live”, plays the “bumbling and naive” (helpful adjectives I borrowed from the back of the box) veterinarian-in-training Corky Romano. Corky happens to be the son of an ailing mob boss (Peter Falk, sounding more and more like a Looney Tunes character) who is under investigation from the FBI. Of course, Corky doesn’t fit into the family business as well as Pops would have hoped, but now he has a mission for his bumbling misfit son: go undercover as an FBI agent and recover all evidence against the Romano crime family. Naturally, this will create a fish-out-of-water scenario in which Corky will be hopelessly out-of-touch with the macho professionalism of his fellow agents, yet will somehow fool them into thinking he is an expert marksman fluent in five different languages while, at the same time, winning them over with his fun-loving spirit. How wonderful!
I’ll admit to laughing once or twice during “Corky Romano”, and I probably would have laughed even more had I been six years old. The movie is so lame and insipid it makes one yearn for a feature-length version of Kattan’s Mr. Peepers sketch on “SNL”. Or perhaps a Mango movie. You can almost hear the muffled cries of the skilled cast, yearning for a project of greater competence and creativity but instead being smothered by David Garrett and Jason Ward’s ridiculous flim-flam of a script. Peter Berg and Chris Penn play Corky’s mobster brothers, while Richard Roundtree is his FBI superior. Grizzled old Fred Ward is in the movie too. As the credits start to roll, you can almost hear the footsteps of these people bolting to the bank to cash their cheques and flee the scene of “Corky Romano” indefinitely.
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©2003, 2002 Jamey Hughton |
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