Director: Gene Quintano
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, William Shatner
Have I Seen it Before: I’m reasonably sure I did. It was a PG-13 release at that time when I would watch almost anything I could get my hands on.
I must not have thought that much of it then, becuase it wasn’t exactly like it got into regular rotation.
Did I Like It: And I think I laughed significantly maybe twice during the entire runtime, and both of those times it was at something Jon Lovitz said, which Is as surprising as anything else.
As Estevez is interrogating Lovitz, in obvious, thin satire of Mel Gibson and Joe Pesci*:
ESTEVEZ: Give me a name.
LOVITZ: (uncertain) Shouldn’t your parents have done that for you?
Ha. Good times.
The other chuckle I had was when Lovitz brought into relief an issue I had with most of the film to begin with, when he asks if Estevez has seen Hot Shots! (1991). I might trust Estevez to pick me up from the airport or do anything else that might be considered responsible**, it’s entirely possible that Charlie is just a bit—more than a bit, actually—funnier than his brother. I keep trying to put that out of my head and have a nice time with the film, but then Lovitz hangs a lampshade on the problem, and that’s afte rthe film went a step further and had Sheen cameo. As a valet attendant, the most troubled of all the Sheen/Estevez clan can make a flavorful comedy meal out of nothing lines, where Estevez appears to struggle throughout the film to remember why he agreed to do this in the first place.
I know for a fact that Charlie Sheen is funnier than Kathy Ireland. Everyone might be funnier than Kathy Ireland.
*I’m not looking up the character names. That’s how much of an impact the film had. Most of them are puns.
**While I’d trust their father to be President of the United States, but that’s a different issue.