I saw this movie because I find Rodney Dangerfield funny, and have liked him in "Back to school", "Caddyshack", and "Easy money". However, even though he repeats some of his funny quirks here, those other movies of his were just alot better.
The opening of the movie was sort of amusing. We see a self help seminar that gradually brings Rodney into the picture as the seminar speaker gets everyone including him to keep saying "I am great. I am wonderful. Everybody likes me.". The last time of everyone saying that has us looking straight at Rodney's reflection in a mirror he's holding doing his known wide-eyed leer.
The worst thing about this movie was Rodney (as Chester) insisting on dressing his stepson-to-be in drag to help his company girls soccer team to win the championship, which were all awkward 13 and 14 year olds. Chester's boss and company president Mr. Mullen (Tom Parks, who reminded me of John Heard) for some reason, thinks that if Chester could become coach of this soccer team and lead them to victory, then he's convinced him that he's worth the promotion that he's wanting. First of all, Rodney looked (and was) too old here to be a full time office worker reaching for a goal of becoming vice president. Second, Chester dressing a 15 year old in drag was totally unacceptable, he should've found some other way to coach the team to victory (I totally understood Chester's fiancee's (Ilean Graff) reaction when she found out what he did later in the movie). Third, Chester's stepson (Johnathan Brandi's) while in drag looked and talked so obviously like a boy in drag, so we're also making alot of the characters look like morons for not noticing that.
There were a few semi-amusing moments between Chester and his co-worker Jackee Harry, who became Chester's assistant coach. I found sort of funny a scene in the elevator with Chester, Jackee, and Ilean when they told another woman in the elevator that they're getting married, and her mistakingly thinking that it was Chester and Jackee (who's black) getting married, and Jackee then reacting in surprise "I wonder what our kids would've looked like".
The funniest scene in the movie was when Chester and Ilean were looking at a house that they were considering buying, and Chester not liking it and saying the few funniest comments of the movie, such as "look at this landscape, it looks like all the trees threw up" and the comment of the neighbors hearing Chester and Ilean screaming.
But, there was just too much of this movie I didn't care for, and next time I want to see Rodney Dangerfield, I'll watch "Back to school", "Easy money", or "Caddyshack". One other note, since Rodney was rumored to be someone who in real didn't feel like he got any respect, his bringing comments related to that into his movies makes it seem like he's not having to practice acting those lines since he's probably saying how he really felt. One example was at one point him looking up and yelling "Why me!? Why me!?", and the look of anguish on his face the second after yelling that seemed probably a look of real anguish which was not acted.
Also, a couple of other sort of interesting things in this movie were Rodney himself singing "Great balls of fire", and a rap song during the closing credits with both Rodney and Tom Parks' last line of the movie being intertwined into the song, Tom's "You're on top of the world", and Rodney's "I finally got some respect".
The opening of the movie was sort of amusing. We see a self help seminar that gradually brings Rodney into the picture as the seminar speaker gets everyone including him to keep saying "I am great. I am wonderful. Everybody likes me.". The last time of everyone saying that has us looking straight at Rodney's reflection in a mirror he's holding doing his known wide-eyed leer.
The worst thing about this movie was Rodney (as Chester) insisting on dressing his stepson-to-be in drag to help his company girls soccer team to win the championship, which were all awkward 13 and 14 year olds. Chester's boss and company president Mr. Mullen (Tom Parks, who reminded me of John Heard) for some reason, thinks that if Chester could become coach of this soccer team and lead them to victory, then he's convinced him that he's worth the promotion that he's wanting. First of all, Rodney looked (and was) too old here to be a full time office worker reaching for a goal of becoming vice president. Second, Chester dressing a 15 year old in drag was totally unacceptable, he should've found some other way to coach the team to victory (I totally understood Chester's fiancee's (Ilean Graff) reaction when she found out what he did later in the movie). Third, Chester's stepson (Johnathan Brandi's) while in drag looked and talked so obviously like a boy in drag, so we're also making alot of the characters look like morons for not noticing that.
There were a few semi-amusing moments between Chester and his co-worker Jackee Harry, who became Chester's assistant coach. I found sort of funny a scene in the elevator with Chester, Jackee, and Ilean when they told another woman in the elevator that they're getting married, and her mistakingly thinking that it was Chester and Jackee (who's black) getting married, and Jackee then reacting in surprise "I wonder what our kids would've looked like".
The funniest scene in the movie was when Chester and Ilean were looking at a house that they were considering buying, and Chester not liking it and saying the few funniest comments of the movie, such as "look at this landscape, it looks like all the trees threw up" and the comment of the neighbors hearing Chester and Ilean screaming.
But, there was just too much of this movie I didn't care for, and next time I want to see Rodney Dangerfield, I'll watch "Back to school", "Easy money", or "Caddyshack". One other note, since Rodney was rumored to be someone who in real didn't feel like he got any respect, his bringing comments related to that into his movies makes it seem like he's not having to practice acting those lines since he's probably saying how he really felt. One example was at one point him looking up and yelling "Why me!? Why me!?", and the look of anguish on his face the second after yelling that seemed probably a look of real anguish which was not acted.
Also, a couple of other sort of interesting things in this movie were Rodney himself singing "Great balls of fire", and a rap song during the closing credits with both Rodney and Tom Parks' last line of the movie being intertwined into the song, Tom's "You're on top of the world", and Rodney's "I finally got some respect".