Men at Work

Audacious in its amiableness. I couldn't believe this got made at the time.

Viewed August 10, 2021. Estevez seems to be going for the same kind of quirky, blue collar punk, southern California vibe of Repo Man (his character even has a Circle Jerks sticker prominently displayed in his locker), but the script is significantly less funny and weird and he doesn't have the directorial chops to pull off the unusual tone.

Probably should have watched this when I was 10.

In which Estevez mixes two past successes (Repo Man, Stakeout) with some others (Rear Window, Weekend at Bernie's) into the blandest of vanilla mashes. The only colour is provided by Leslie Hope's pink suit and Keith David. (You know what I mean. [Don't you?]) The rest is stuff like the villain going "FIND IT FIND IT FIND IT!" whilst bouncing up and down and David repeatedly handcuffing dudes together in their underwear to make it look like they're doing butt stuff (he's not batting a thousand).

This is the working week answer to Weekend at Bernie's.

Your milage will vary depending on how much you like the Sheen/Estevez dynamic. The screenplay is a major let down. The jokes don't really hit hard enough and a lot of the characters are underdeveloped. Fortunately things get more interesting once the crazy crime/action elements escalate, but then the movie decides to circle back around to the comedy, ending on some very cheap tonally awkward slapstick jokes. In the end it manages to be somewhat likable even if it's not very good overall.

The 50 out of 54 is because of Keith David.

Six years after his iconic and classic film about odd-jobbed guys searching for a glowing trunk, Emilio Estevez does something very similar with his insufferable brother. What is lost is the humor and the willingness to go dark. On top of it all, Men at Work contains some of the worst written and acted villains I've ever seen

Sheen and Estevez are entertaining on screen together, but M.A.W was a wasted opportunity. The premise of young garbage men who get ensnared in a murder plot involving a local government official isn't a bad one--films with garbage men as heroic progatonists are regrettably rare--but Estevez's script quickly devolves into routine, and his direction is sluggish, which saps the energy out of the action oriented finale. David is a riot as an unhinged war vet though and there are some good scenes.

I imagine this is the sort of thing that you can only appreciate if watched in the early 90s, post 2010 it's bland and completely uninteresting

Silly and instantly forgettable, but it had its charm.

Definitely a guilty pleasure^^

Incredibly stupid film, but damned if it isn't entertaining for some reason.

Clumsily directed, witless rubbish.

I'm pretty sure I saw this movie by accident and I'm pretty sure I didn't like it.

Rated by the 13-year-old me. I'm not going to watch this again to figure out if it "holds up" or some shit

Incredibly forgettable film.

HAHA THIS WAS FUNNY THE BLACK GUY RIDING SHOTGUN IN THE GARBAGE TRUCK

Lite entertaiment.

Not very good, but that doesn't stop the film from having a special place in my heart.

A funny [but totally improbable] movie. If you can't laugh at this farce, you need a mental health check-up.

You have to really like brothers Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez to get into this flick.

Stupid fun. Keith David's badassness plus poop jokes = a good 2 hours.

An airbag full of feces is always good for a laugh...unfortunately, it only happens once in this film.

Not without its laughs, but soon devolves into standard thriller stuff and loses its identity.

Not real good.

Utterly stupid, but a guilty pleasure. It gets point for Keith David, upon seeing a dead white guy in a trash can, says "Oh look, somebody threw away a perfectly good white-boy!". That has to be worth something! :)

Honestly, I think it's a hoot. I find the humor cheap, yet not completely tasteless, and somewhat charming. The plot is pointless and insane, but the movie succeeds in being a whole lot of dumb fun. Meh!

Yes this is a goofy and silly movie, but it has great one liners, plenty of hilarious moments and its heart is in the right place.

Possibly the dullest black comedy ever made