Tommy Boy
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Cast
- Chris Farley
- David Spade
- Brian Dennehy
- Bo Derek
- Dan Aykroyd
- Julie Warner
- Sean McCann
- Zach Grenier
- James Blendick
- Clinton Turnbull
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Boring and overrated
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The movie is an assembly of clichés and obligatory scenes from dozens of other movies, all are better. It has only one original idea, and that's a bad one: The inspiration of making the hero's sidekick into, simultaneously, his buddy, his critic and his rival.
Against the odds of a feeble script and uninspired direction the duo do, in fact, grow on you, and there are a smattering of silly laughs, most notably a sequence involving a large road kill stashed in the back seat.
Their best moments are some throwaway routines; they weep in the car as they sing along to the Carpenters' Superstar. More often, the movie goes for stale, obvious sight gags like Tommy's slow destruction of Richard's precious car. As mismatched-buddy teams go, Felix and Oscar have nothing to worry about here.