GONE FISHIN'
A film review by Michael John Legeros
Copyright 1997 Michael John Legeros
(Hollywood)
Directed by Christopher Cain
Written by Jill Mazursky Cody and Jeffrey Abrams
Cast Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn
Whitfield, Nick Brimble, Willie Nelson, Carol Kane
MPAA Rating "PG-13"
Running Time 94 minutes
Reviewed at The Park Place 16, Morrisville, NC (30MAY97)
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Reteamed for the first time since the LETHAL WEAPON sequels, Joe Pesci and Danny Glover play a pair of New Jersey numbnuts, headed to the Everglades for their annual pre-Thanksgiving fishing trip. There, they promptly lose their car, then their boat, then another boat, etc. etc. A pair of unfunny opening gags is an early indicator that director Christopher Cain (THE AMAZING PANDA ADVENTURE, THE NEXT KARATE KID) can't set up slapstick to save his life. Pesci and Glover, however, have an innocent charm that endures when the physical comedy doesn't. (Much in the same way that Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow anchored the otherwise awful ROMY AND MICHELLE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION.) Ok ok ok ok, you won't split your sides, but you may enjoy the less-frantic moments. Like when the two stooges are set upon by a smooth-talking salesman at a boat yard. Or when they're giving babes the "killer look." With appearances by Carol Kane (as Pesci's wife!), Louise Fletcher, Rosanna Arquette, and, in one of the year's most curious cameos, Willie Nelson as an avenging angel fishing instructor.
Grade: C-
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