SnoopyStyle Mitch Weaver (Norm MacDonald) and Sam McKenna (Artie Lange) are life long friends since childhood. They have always been great at taking revenge in imaginative ways. When Mitch gets thrown out by his girlfriend, he's forced to stay with Sam and his father Pops (Jack Warden). When Pops has a heart attack, he tells Mitch that he's his dad. Now Pops needs a heart transplant and Dr. Farthing (Chevy Chase) is willing to bump him up to the top of the list for $50k in 2 weeks. With the manager of the movie theater Mr. Hamilton (Don Rickles) being a jerk, the guys take revenge with all the employees paying. So the guys come up with the idea of revenge-for-hire business.The comedy depends a lot on the various outlandish revenge schemes. Some of it works, but it's very much hit and miss. The comedy duo of MacDonald and Lange isn't very exciting. While I usually love both guys, they don't give off a positive energy. MacDonald's sarcastic brand of comedy is the funniest part of the movie. This movie is filled with comedy stars and SNL alumni. It almost works.

JasparLamarCrabb Cameos by the likes of Chris Farley & Adam Sandler are not enough to make up for the fact that this dud manages to waste two of comedy's sharpest minds. Norm MacDonald & Artie Lange are two nincompoops who, unable to do any work of any sort, start a revenge for hire business and wow, is it unfunny. Neither MacDonald nor Lange is allowed to let loose and both come across as exceedingly dull. MacDonald seems to know this type of thing is NOT his bag and actually seems to be winking at the camera. This really sent his career into oblivion. Lange comes across as a nitwit and it's a shame, because his stand-up act is hilarious! Directed, with no finesse, by Bob Saget (another hilarious stand-up comic wasting his time with lame-brained nonsense). Be warned, this film even manages to waste Don Rickles!

jts0405 Dirty Work is an originally funny comedy. There are many movies that are about the same thing, but this is definitely something different. Norm Macdonald in my opinion hasn't really done anything good since Saturday Night Live canned him. This movie was a good way to boost him to the top for awhile. He has definitely scored with a few hilarious comedies. This film is one of my absolute favorite movies. It definitely has a different meaning to it then what you see today. So if one night you can't decide on what to watch, give it a try by renting it from a video store. Also this was the last film of Chris Farley before his death, so RENT NOW!!!!

MovieAddict2016 Whereas his contemporary, Adam Sandler, had made a career out of enjoying himself in stupid comedies like this, Norm MacDonald approaches his film debut - "Dirty Work" - with a dry sense of irony and self-awareness: he knows the film sucks. He knows the plot is nonsense. He knows the love interest is a throwaway mandatory subplot. He knows the dialogue is terrible, terrible stuff. And he knows he can't act. He doesn't care.And so in a way this is a very subversive genre film, because it takes the then-popular SNL-actor-adaptation formula of flicks such as "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison" (which, at the time, before "Superstar" and "Night at the Roxbury" ended the fashion, was a guaranteed-profit machine) and just basically makes fun of it for 82 minutes. Yes, Sandler and other SNL actors make brief cameos but this is better than most of the typical SNL films. (Off the top of my head, I think only "Happy Gilmore" really works as well, and not for the same reasons.) Maybe I'm prejudiced in the film's favor because I love Norm MacDonald. I think he's one of the most hilarious men to ever grace the earth. But he's funnier with on-the-spot, unrehearsed stuff. (As evidenced by his appearance on Conan a few years ago, which Conan in retrospect claimed was the funniest interview he'd ever done.) He often appears on talk shows acting completely drunk, stoned, and out of his mind. At first it appears that he's just rambling, but it's a carefully practiced style of comedy and you either love it or hate it. I love it.His acerbic wit propels "Dirty Work." It's just fun watching him, even though once the film's over it's very clear why he never made it as a major film star: he doesn't have the same qualities as Sandler. He isn't content with making garbage and trying to pass it off as good comedy. He hates the formula and, in fact, commercials for "Dirty Work" were banned by NBC after Norm was deemed "not funny" by the vice president of NBC at the time (who fired Norm from the Weekend Updates).Don't misunderstand me. This movie's not that great. And Norm is out of place - visibly so. But this is what makes it work. The prison sex scene is treated so nonchalantly and with such self-mockery that you just *know* these guys were making fun of this movie the whole time. Artie Lange, Don Rickles, Jack Warden, and Chevy Chase in one of his few truly funny film roles. And it's directed by Bob Saget for goodness sake.Sarcastic, self-loathing, acerbic, witty, brutal, and consumed by hatred. Not your typical Saturday Night Live movie. And I'm glad it didn't turn a profit because I'd hate to have to see Norm MacDonald stuck pretending to enjoy doing this for a living. Watching him show up on the "Daily Show" stirring controversy is a lot more fun and more in-tune with what he's all about. He's misunderstood but the public have a pretty good record of popularizing talentless people.