Synopsis
Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
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Cast
- Charlie SheenCarl Taylor
- Emilio EstevezJames St. James
- Leslie HopeSusan Wilkins
- Keith DavidLouis Fedders
- Dean CameronPizza Man
- John GetzMaxwell Potterdam III
- Hawk WolinskiBiff
- John LavachielliMario
- Geoffrey BlakeFrost
- Cameron DyeLuzinski
Recommandations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
With Men at Work actor-writer-director Emilio Estevez has turned out a pleasant, knockabout comedy for himself and brother Charlie Sheen. While it may not be the funniest picture you'll see all year, it is fresh, inventive and has very few moments when it's not generating laughs. [27 Aug 1990, p.F10] - 63
The Seattle Times
It has some great laughs and real screwball energy. It also has its heart in the right place, with Emilio Estevez's environmental concerns figuring prominently in the plot. [24 Aug 1990, p.28] - 60
The New York Times
A good-natured lowbrow farce about two southern California garbage men who dream of opening their own surf shop. - 60
Time Out
The grotesque practical jokes perpetrated against two interfering bumblers are genuinely funny, while Estevez and Sheen remain cutely goofy even when indulging themselves in this adolescent idiocy. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Despite its ample flaws, Men at Work is never boring and often is a lot of fun; however, it would have benefitted from the pruning of a few of its misfired visual gags, particularly those involving excrement. - 50
Washington Post
Like the jokes, the brothers' rapport seems recycled from childhood. Sheen and Estevez are hardly working. - 38
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Estevez couldn't decide what he wanted: a doofus comedy, a serious political statement, a mystery, a Bowery Boys' knock-off. The result is sophomoric. [27 Aug 1990, p.5D] - 25
Miami Herald
Estevez is a self-important performer and his cockiness mutes most of the movie's laughs. If not for Sheen, a much more appealing comic actor than his brother, Men at Work would hardly be palatable. [29 Aug 1990, p.D5]
