I have no idea how anyone could ever rate this movie under an 8. maybe a 7 possibly, but Christ. this movie is hilarious. so many great lines. it just doesn't make sense to me. oh well.
sharecause you have people who think that liking this movie makes you dumb....therefore they rate it a 2 because theyre too "smart" for tommy boy....this movie is great comedy so im right with ya dankes
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His name...was Julio Iglesias!
I just saw this for the first time - well, about 70% of it, I couldn't finish it - and I don't understand how anyone can give this over a 5.
Even taking the aging of the movie into account, it's puerile and annoying and lacks any wit or insight and is truly "lowest common denominator" stuff.
however, as humour is so subjective, your opinion is as valid as mine and I'm thrilled you enjoyed this movie as much as I hated it.
This movie is a little empty. It doesn't have that much going for it.
Chris Farley is great, of course, and none of the actors are anything to complain about, really. The plot is OK-ish, but lacks any real surprises, it's very run-of-the-mill, paint-by-the-numbers-style affair.
It was shot during a leafless season (might've been late autumn), so the sceneries are not pleasing. Basically, what this movie amounts to is a poor man's Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The musics are pretty awful, David Spade seems to suck all the energy and fun out of every scene, most of the jokes, like his 'baldness' do not really work as humor.
The movie tries to have a big heart, and be a well-meaning comedy, but it sort of falls flat on its face, because there's really nothing that would keep the audience engaged, even visually (winterlike sceneries, cold factories, etc., ugly waitresses, etc.), let alone storywise. The audience knows exactly how the story is going to unfold after a certain point, and it's just boring to wait for it to plod along.
They add some 'wacky' stuff to fill in the blanks and to waste time, but even that comes off as just unnecessary and irrelevant to the story.
This is not as empty or bad as 'Almost Heroes', but it's like someone took 'P,T&A' and removed all the brilliant/comic/fun/energetic/atmospheric/funny parts and dumped the rest through some machine the churns out clichés.
Whereas P,T&A is engaging from the beginning to the end, this movie doesn't even have steam to lose. If it wasn't for Chris Farley's charisma, I don't think anyone would want to watch this movie.