I've seen Tim Curry multiple times on stage, and I'm always saddened when he's cast in a film as a one dimensional baddie. Whether Rooster in "Annie", the Palace hotel clerk in "Home Alone 2" or the Russian villain in this (not to mention a dozen others), he could grin with evil delight (very funny in its Grinch comparison in "HA 2"), but that typecasting on film was an insult to his King Arthur like talent. The plotline utilized to drive this film is a retread of every sitcom to movie rip-off, and frankly, it's gotten tiresome. His supervillain is stolen from a Bond film and sets the movie up to be trashed from the start.
This hopefully sole adaption of the 60's sitcom stars Tom Arnold who has no business being a leading man in a comedy, basically the James Corden of his day as far as overexposed unfunny men are. He seems to be trying to emulate Ray Walston in "South Pacific" and fails miserably. Dean Stockwell didn't do anything well here, let alone stock.
David Allen Grier gets some laughs, but he's overshadowed by the material surrounding him. Debra Messing plays a character with absolutely no humor and has no sex appeal when that is required in that part. Borgnine only appears in the few scenes, but he's resting on his laurels with an Oscar to boot so he doesn't need to worry that this is almost as big a naval disaster as Pearl Harbor.
This hopefully sole adaption of the 60's sitcom stars Tom Arnold who has no business being a leading man in a comedy, basically the James Corden of his day as far as overexposed unfunny men are. He seems to be trying to emulate Ray Walston in "South Pacific" and fails miserably. Dean Stockwell didn't do anything well here, let alone stock.
David Allen Grier gets some laughs, but he's overshadowed by the material surrounding him. Debra Messing plays a character with absolutely no humor and has no sex appeal when that is required in that part. Borgnine only appears in the few scenes, but he's resting on his laurels with an Oscar to boot so he doesn't need to worry that this is almost as big a naval disaster as Pearl Harbor.