One of the funniest comedies of the 90's

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2001)

Kingpin is a film that might not match up to the Farrelly Brothers masterpieces like Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, but it comes close. The movie stars Woody Harrelson as a once great bowling champ who's career is ended by an injury to his hand for which he must spend the rest of his life with a hook. But then he finds a new kid, Amish, but promising bowling guy (Randy Quaid) and finds hope for a new future. Sounds like the setup for a corny drama, but the Farrelly's take no wrong turns in delivering big belly laughs for the overall scope of the movie. Harrelson, Quaid and even the seductress Vanessa Angel (you might remember her from TV's Weird Science) deliver good laughs, but it is two people who steal the show and make this film utterly hilarious- Bill Murray who gives a new meaning to the word comb-over, and Chris Elliot who gives one of the funniest moments in 90's comedy in a cameo. A