It captures the hectic, cutthroat world of Big Corporate, and the jokes keep coming, especially in the first 30-45 minutes, which covers Issel's entire first day on the job. Even as he is promoted from PR which involves taking complaints from upset feminists to angry whalers, all the way up to the absurd and hilarious Board Room meetings.
But like all comedies it suffers from a formulaic conclusion as the guy (Judge Reinhold) gets the girl (Lori Nan-Engler), in this instance the anti-Big Business activist girl whose father is, of course, the CEO of INC.
In the end we get formulaic triumph of good over evil as the father figure is forced to resign and all his stock handed over to activist daughter. This would never happen in a publicly traded company, but the formulaic framing of the plot needed its formulaic happy ending.
Do watch this movie for the first hour at least until as another commenter noted, Jane Seymour has her speech on ethics, the movie goes straight after her speech (she also disappears from the movie). The cameo bits of Rick Moranis, Danny Devito, (Even Don King) which are brief, are memorable and are part of why the first half of the movie is hilarious. The late Merrick Buttrick, Ron James, Bruce Wagner and Wallace Shawn are more great side characters who are introduced and forgotten about as the formulaic and messy conclusion unfolds. Props to Eddie Albert, he is great through-out the film
Sex: Jane Seymour looks good in white and pink lingerie, though we never see her in the black lingerie from the VHS box cover. Lori Nan-Engler briefly shows a cute behind in white panties. Brief Topless nudity at a Strip Club scene.
Violence: Lame shoot-out at end.
But like all comedies it suffers from a formulaic conclusion as the guy (Judge Reinhold) gets the girl (Lori Nan-Engler), in this instance the anti-Big Business activist girl whose father is, of course, the CEO of INC.
In the end we get formulaic triumph of good over evil as the father figure is forced to resign and all his stock handed over to activist daughter. This would never happen in a publicly traded company, but the formulaic framing of the plot needed its formulaic happy ending.
Do watch this movie for the first hour at least until as another commenter noted, Jane Seymour has her speech on ethics, the movie goes straight after her speech (she also disappears from the movie). The cameo bits of Rick Moranis, Danny Devito, (Even Don King) which are brief, are memorable and are part of why the first half of the movie is hilarious. The late Merrick Buttrick, Ron James, Bruce Wagner and Wallace Shawn are more great side characters who are introduced and forgotten about as the formulaic and messy conclusion unfolds. Props to Eddie Albert, he is great through-out the film
Sex: Jane Seymour looks good in white and pink lingerie, though we never see her in the black lingerie from the VHS box cover. Lori Nan-Engler briefly shows a cute behind in white panties. Brief Topless nudity at a Strip Club scene.
Violence: Lame shoot-out at end.