Tommy Boy ½ (1995, Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy, Dan Aykroyd, Julie Warner, Rob Lowe, Bo Derek) – Classic Movie Review 4553

Saturday Night Live players Chris Farley and David Spade team up for director Peter Segal’s unbearable, utterly moronic, slapstick 1995 American teen comedy with a soft head and an equally soft heart that needs to be given the widest possible berth.

Spade plays Richard, a slimy accountant who must keep Tommy Callaghan (Farley), the clod-hopping graduate son of car-parts factory owner Big Tom (Brian Dennehy) out of trouble when the old man dies and Tommy steps in to his shoes to save the family business.

Farley and Spade fail to raise the spirits or any laughs in a sledgehammer-subtle comedy duo turn. Even Dan Aykroyd can’t make his rival owner role funny. Bo Derek and Rob Lowe are bizarrely cast as Dennehy’s grasping new bride Beverly and her equally greedy lover Paul, posing as her son who is out to swindle Farley.

Aykroyd, Derek, Lowe and Dennehy may need the work but they don’t deserve this and neither do we.

It is written by Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner.

Julie Warner, Sean McCann, Zack Grenier and James Blendick are also in the cast.

It must have enjoyed a success because Black Sheep (1996) is a direct followup for the Farley and Spade team.

© Derek Winnert 2016 Classic Movie Review 4553

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