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Movie Reviews of Head Office
Movie Review: Very entertaining and funny
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is very entertaining and full of well known stars. Judge Reinhold, Danny DeVito, Rick Moranis, Don King, Eddie Albert and Jane Seymour to name a few. I especially liked seeing Jane Seymour. She was great in her role as the character who slept her way to the top. All around 5 stars.Movie Review: The Corporate Ladder
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very funny movie, well written and acted. It's a hilarious view of how some people move up in a big corporation. We bought the VHS years ago and wore it out! The DVD version is even better.Movie Review: Still funny after more than 20 years
Summary: 4 Stars
Great cast here--Danny de Vito, Rick Moranis, Wallace Shawn, Judge Rheinhold, Jane Seymour, Eddie Albert, Brian Doyle-Murray, George Coe, Richard Masur, Don Novello. This is a corporate satire from 1985 that still has great chops, thanks to writer-director Ken Finkleman. Here we have Inc. International, a giant mega-corporation that makes everything from, as CEO and pitchman Eddie Albert says in the opening piece, creamy peanut butter to nuclear warheads.
Sex and power figure largely here, as do politics, greed, and all that fun stuff. There are not one, not two, but THREE--yes, folks, count 'em, THREE--nervous wrecks, personified by Rick Moranis, Wallace Shawn, and Danny DeVito (you can tell he just recently lost some hair). Well, that's about accurate--corporate life can make you a nervous wreck if you're a middle level exec, not sure if you're on your way up, down, or foever stuck in your current spot.
Our hero, as it were, played by Judge Rheinhold (is that the right spelling of the guy's name? I never did find out for sure) who's the son of US Senator Something-or-Other, played by George Coe and who winds up at Inc. International cause CEO Eddie wants Judge in the company, the better to influence Senator George to do what he wants. Yep, Eddie is no dope.
Now it could be that this sounds kind of corny or cliched but Mr. Finkleman is too sharp to let that happen. There's more than enough razor-edge dialogue to make it so. This is a heck of a lot of fun to watch; it's a hoot to see Rick Moranis talk a mile a minute as he races up his blood pressure to a level that ultimately changes the population of the world, if you get my drift.
Big dollops of black humor fit snugly into the groove here right alongside a love story in the overall context of a nice edgy satire. It's Judge's story but there's enough side-splitting stuff provided by a whole lot of other characters to make this nifty and funny from head to toe--Don Novello as the limo driver who always misses exits; Jane Seymour as the hyperkinetic sexpot exec whose appetite is unlimited; Richard Masur as the smooth-talking corporate guy who always keeps his job (unlike so many others) basically because a) he knows the rules inside and out and recites them to Judge, and b) because basically while following the rules he doesn't give a flying fork about much of anything.
Well, you get the idea. Hey, I can think of a lot worse ways to spend an hour and a half. Groovy stuff.
Movie Review: "Beware the Furniture Movers"
Summary: 4 Stars
Ah, a long forgotten cult classic from the 80s. Frankly, this was Judge Reinhold's best movie after "Fast Times" and if he'd made a few more like this, he might have avoided appearing in those Volvo commercials.
This movie takes about the same cynically detached view of corporate America as Blake Edward's "S.0.B." took toward the movie industry. The thing about this movie that bears attention is that, even if it is "just" an 80s farce starring a lot of actors who haven't done much lately, the issues it raises, primarily the offshoring of American jobs, are even more relevant today than they were then.
The cast, as a whole, is first rate. Judge Reinhold is the recent business school graduate courted by the massive INC Corporation for his Senator father's favors. As a result, he manages to get promoted repeatedly no matter how badly he screws up. He winds up doing the right thing just to stay alive.
Eddie Albert is the CEO who personally presides over decisions to disconnect the telephones of deliquient customers. ("The check's not in the mail. I own the mail.")
Jane Seymour is an icily ambitious executive climbing the corporate ladder on her back, as it were. Danny DeVito is another executive on his way down the ladder via the express elevator. Rick Moranis is the marketing executive who seems to be permanently connected to a blood-pressure collar. Richard Masur is Reinhold's deeply cynical and extremely stoned mentor and Don Novello turns in his Guido Sarduci threads for a chauffeur's uniform.
All in all, this DVD is well worth the bargain price they're charging.
Movie Review: An Unsung Comedy Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
I first discovered this jewel of a movie in the bargain bin of a video store that was going out of business in the late 1980s. My husband and I loved it so much that we still quote from it to this day. But we loaned it out to someone who never brought it back years ago, and I thought I would never find it again. I was thrilled to find it on Amazon.
Even though it almost 25 years old, is so full of biting sarcasm and comedic commentary on big business and greed that it is socially relevant again in today's economic climate. It follows the unintentional assent of a Senator's son (played by Judge Reinhold) from an entry-level position to the upper echelons of international mega-corporation, INC International (that makes everything from nuclear war-heads to softer, more absorbent toilet paper) in a hero's journey format. He meets a series of meatheads and mentors to help him (with is also unintentional) along the way, including a stressed out PR man played by Rick Moranis, a former power player who finds himself on the way down (literially) played by Danny Devito, and an ambitious office slut played by Jane Seymour. Richard Masur is well cast as the deadpan guide who accompanies the hero on his absurd rise through the corporate infrastructure, and Don Novello is memorable as the chauffeur who keeps missing the turn to Allentown. I think you will enjoy it.