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Men at Work [VHS]

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This movie is too funny to explain. Stupid, too, so you're sort of ashamed of laughing so hard. A masterpiece in its own right...

Is this an Academy Award winner? NO! But it's a fun and silly and meaningless story that showcases Charlie & Emilio's very dry sense of humor. The real reason to see it and buy it is if you live in Southern California - LA region. Excluding indoor scenes, the entire movie was filmed all around the South Bay, from Palos Verdes to Venice Beach and inland as far as Torrance and Hawthorne. Watch the boys have a beer at Good Stuff in Hermosa....toss garbage cans on Avenue C & the Esplanade.....get into trouble with bad guys late at night, at a faux park staged at Torrance Beach.....fun to see your neighborhood highlighted! I rate it highly and recommend it if you know these towns.

MEN AT WORK has some adult viewing appeal. It begins with a plausible plot, some well-timed humor, and sharp lines of dialogue. Where did it go wrong? At a point when the writers decided to make idiots out of two patrolmen, it would seem. From that point the movie became a formula effort--the meaningless effort to hide a corpse, the ridiculous kidnapping of a pizza deliveryman, the absurd hitmen who can't hit--oh yes, the car chases. The humor became simply juvenile. In spite of its'shortcomings, the movie was entertaining. Sheen and Estevez are fun to watch. There are some adult gags mixed in with the junior high school bathroom humor. I'd watch this again, but not if a Woody Allen flic were handy.