Corky Romano

Plot synopsis:
Veterinary technician Corky Romano (Chris Kattan) having been banished from his family after the death of his mother, is unaware of their underworld connections until he receives a call from his father, "Pops" (Peter Falk), a Mafia crime lord. Pops has been indicted on racketeering charges, and, knowing that the prosecutors have a strong case against him, has concluded that the only solution is to somehow destroy the evidence held by the FBI.
At the family mansion, an ailing and bedridden Pops convinces Corky to infiltrate the local FBI office, since the Romano family cannot send anyone with known underworld connections, such as Corky's brothers Paulie (Peter Berg) and Peter (Chris Penn).
With the aid of a computer hacker, Corky is able to obtain a false name ("Agent Corky Pissant pronounced 'peesohn'...It's, you know, French!"), background, and résumé. He gains access to the local FBI office, where he discovers from office chief Howard Schuster that, according to his résumé, "Pissant" graduated from Harvard, can speak five different languages, is an expert sharpshooter and has a black belt in the martial art "yan mu kwan."
Corky makes several trips to the FBI office's evidence room, only to be sidetracked each time. He is sent on investigations and raids, most of which have nothing to do with his father's case. Corky finds himself on a mission to infiltrate a neo-Nazi skinhead group related to the Night Vulture, a heroin trafficker who is number six on the FBI's Most Wanted List. Corky approaches the gang members, who promptly rip off the Britney Spears tank top he is wearing as a disguise, and take him to a warehouse. Every Mafia member, including Paulie and Peter, are listening in through a microphone that was earlier taped to Corky's crotch. They go to the warehouse, beat up all the gang members, and leave. When the FBI arrives, they assume that Corky has handled the skinheads singlehandedly. He receives praise at the office and in the local media, though one agent, Agent Brick Davis (Matthew Glave) appears both jealous and suspicious of him.
Corky attends a hostage situation involving a Night Vulture suspect. FBI director Howard Schuster (Richard Roundtree) hands Corky a machine gun and orders him to kill the suspect. When Corky fires, the trigger gets stuck, spraying bullets everywhere. One of them hits a propane tank, causing it to explode, which knocks the suspect off his feet. Agents rush in and arrest the suspect, and it transpires that his gun was a fake. Schuster sends Corky to put the suspect in jail.
On the trip back to the FBI office, Corky locks himself out of the car and the suspect kicks out the metal divider between the front and back seats. The divider jams the gas pedal to the floor, sending the car weaving wildly through city streets. Corky's arm is stuck in the window the whole time. Later, the car crashes into Paulie and Peter. Davis and other agents arrive and proceed to arrest Paulie and Peter, citing photographic equipment in the backseat of their car (the family mansion was already under watch by the FBI). However, Corky steps in to handle the situation. He farts in the faces of his brothers, and tells them to leave.
Corky grows to like FBI agent Kate Russo (Vinessa Shaw), but she seems uninterested until they bump into each other at the Romano mansion where Russo has been sent undercover to collect more evidence against the Romanos. Corky is able to convince Russo that he, too, is working undercover.
Corky is sent to infiltrate a drug deal in Chinatown posing as a translator (the agency believes that he can speak Vietnamese and Thai). Corky attempts to translate, but ends up saying nonsense phrases such as "fool" and "hairy pencil". The participating drug lords draw their guns and begin shooting in frustration. Corky's new FBI partners, agents Bob Cox (Roger Fan) and Terrence Darnell (Dave Sheridan), engage in a shootout with one of them while the other escapes.
Cox and Darnell are captured while trying to infiltrate one of Pops' underground casinos. Corky comes to the rescue, but is caught by the bouncers and has his head placed in a paint shaker. When it is discovered that he is a member of the Romano family, and the bouncers ask how they can make it up to Corky, he says, "Maybe I can take some of my friends with me?".
Corky eventually gets the evidence, and discovers that his father will be facing murder charges. Shocked, he tells Pops, who vehemently denies killing anyone. Meanwhile, Russo discovers that Corky is a member of the Romano family and not an FBI agent. The entire FBI office conducts a raid on the Romano mansion, where it is discovered that family friend Leo Corrigan (Fred Ward) is an FBI informant and has been lying about the family's activities, including the alleged murder. It is also discovered that Brick Davis is in fact the Night Vulture. Leo is knocked out by Corky with a light fixture, and Davis is arrested by his fellow FBI agents. In the end, Corky and Agent Russo get married and drive off in Corky's car, a bright yellow Mazda Miata. Corky also gains the respect and love of his entire family.
The peculiar nickname "Corky" is alleged to be taken from real life New Jersey mobster Gaetano Vastola whose nickname among the mafia ranks as a street soldier was "Corky". Gaetano is also believed to have been the model for the fictional character in The Sopranos, Hesh Rabkin (played by Jerry Adler).

Tags: humor, stupid

Review:
it's about a VERY dysfunctional family...Corky who is cut out for absolutely nothing, goes undercover as a FBI agent and the boss thinks he's just what they need for the case of the night vulture.
There are parts of this movie where you are laughing so hard that your stomach hurts and you have to re-watch those parts because you were laughing to hard to hear exactly what was going on.Have to admit that I'm a fan of Chris Kattan and loved him on Saturday Night Live.
I don't know why did I watched this movie, but to tell you, I really had a great time laughing all by myself inside that cinema.
That's the time when the movie CORKY ROMANO became one of my all time favorite comedy.Sometimes the story seems nonsense.
The clumsy loser veterinary son Corky Romano (Chris KattaN), who is not a criminal, is infiltrated in the FBI to destroy the evidences against his father.Based on the bad reviews in IMDb, I saw "Corky Romano" with the lowest expectation I could have, but I liked it.
Do not think, watch this film with low expectation and in the end you might be surprised laughing a lot.
Respectable performances are also offered by Richard Roundtree as the harried boss, Vinessa Shaw as a talented female FBI agent bouncing her head off a glass ceiling and Fred Ward as Falk's advisor and Benedict Arnold.The plot concept actually has some wonderful possibilities and, in the hands of a young Steve Martin or Chevy Chase, could have proved a great comedic vehicle.
Sadly, Peter Berg and Chris Penn, who portray his misfit brothers, both fall far short of their proven capability.There are some very funny scenes, but they are far too few and separated by way too many boring ones.
The producers of this movie stole an hour and a half of my life, and I want it back!Chris Kattan is funny for about 10 minutes.
Although Chris Farley was brilliant, and then okay, and then not so funny, and then dead...so I suppose he hits the entire spectrum in one career.Avoid this movie like the plague.c. Chris Kattan:Stay on SNL.
Chris Kattan is a great sketch actor on Saturday Night Live...but he should probably leave the movie industry alone unless he gets some sort of creative control.
Chris Kattan is actually a talented comic actor--contrary to what you might think after watching this movie--with great energy.
That's too much talent too waste on a clunker like "Corky Romano."  I didn't like Falk's last movie "Made" all that much either, but at least he had a decent role.
chris kattan will never get a good comedy role after this and "a night at the roxbury." this movie is completely obvious, has no smart humor at all, and just repeats itself over and over again.
And I can see how some might find it annoying (even without having an extremely uptight personality like my father).However, if you do enjoy that type of bizarre slapstick comedy, Corky Romano is right up your ally.
It's it's weird; it's funny, and it's just a lot of feel-good fun.If you like watching a sweet, lovable goof get in way over his head but always come out on top due to fortunate and funny coincidences and mishaps (frustrating the bad guys to no end), then this is the movie for you.
But taken for what it is, it's a solid comedy in its category.Basically, if you haven't watched Chris Kattan on film or on TV, you should probably check out an SNL skit first to find out if you like his style of comedy or not.
This is a great movie that is filled to brimming with many funny jokes about all kinds of things you can think of.
The music is one of the best things about the film but also the direction and editing is a phenomenon.This movie is about Corky Romano, a little gay man who becomes an FBI agent to fight crime.
Mostly because the humor we are faced with is defined in a scene where we see Corky (Kattan) working as a veterinarian and mindlessly running into things left and right.
The ending is contrived, the only thing likable about the lead is his innocence, and even two all star actors like Peter Falk and Fred Ward can hardly believe they're in such a film.If Corky Romano has included a less attention demanding character, more scenes that revolved around the family, and maybe even gave Corky a sidekick it all would've worked out favorably.
His character isn't built to occupy more than a few minutes before cutting to someone or something else.Although it was just a ho-hum experience, Corky Romano did give me the strangest feeling I've felt in a film in a long time.
Corky Romano is obviously a vehicle for the absurd comedic talents of Chris Kattan, but it's good to see that he is able to slow down and be serious when the content of the story calls for at least a tiny bit of seriousness.
It's odd that a movie like this, that is clearly made to be goofy and stupid, still manages to be not nearly as bad as something like Mickey Blue Eyes, which similarly dealt with someone trying desperately but in vain to fit in with a Hollywood-style Italian crime family.As is to be expected in a comedy like this, the characters are skewed just enough to make them weird and goofy, like the one brother who is manly and violent but latently homosexual, or the other one who has become a full-grown man without his own father ever realizing that he never learned to read.Evidently there is a huge case against the father of the family, although he is only guilty of the lesser crimes like money laundering and whatnot, not the murder that he is being charged with.
Corky's antics while he is working for the FBI are some of the least convincing things that I've ever seen in a movie, it's almost insulting that we're asked to believe that someone who behaves like he does would acquire so many fans within the Bureau almost immediately.
There are a couple guys who work with Corky who are so enamored with him and look up to him so much because of his accidental successes that they are more like cheerleaders than FBI agents.Some of the slapstick scenes are miserable failures, but at least it's easy to see why they were expected to work.
It ends up exploding and getting all over both of them, and the ensuing madness is expected to be funny, but it's the worst kind of comedy - it's funny until you stop for a second to think about what you're laughing at.
Matthew Glave pops into view again after giving a spectacular performance of a spectacular jerk in The Wedding Singer to play another spectacular jerk in Corky Romano as the rival FBI agent who is sure that there is something up with this new guy that doesn't quite fit.
Pops decides to plant his estrange son Corky (Chris Kattan) as a mole inside the FBI.
Corky Romano has to be one of the most jaw dropping and horrific "comedy's" ever made.While the sometimes amusing Chris Kattan who pulled off a very funny performance in the hilarious 'Undercover Brother' his character in Corky is so stupid and so unfunny-which is a shame since the premise is a wonderful idea.
A couple of better one liners and less predictable scenes would have made it a better film.This kind of film/comedy works for some people (some of the guys and girls at the theater laughed A LOT), I think it's a "nice" way to spend some time if you don't want to think too much and don't mind having it all delivered at you.
Chris Kattan of Saturday Night Live plays the title character in this send-up of mob movies.
Chris Kattan of SNL is Corky Romano, the son of a mafia boss a.k.a.
Anyway, I thought this movie was hilarious, it's not really a great comedy, but it's one you can watch over and over a couple times and still laugh.
Don't listen to the IMDB rating of 4.6 because it is much better than that.Overall the whole movie was really good and the reason it gained an extra point is because of Chris Kattan but lost a point for not enough laughs.
Going in to CORKY ROMANO, I was expecting a bad, funny movie.
It stars Chris Kattan as Corky Romano, a veterinarian who's two brothers [Peter Berg and Chris Penn] and father [Peter Falk] are in the mafia.
Soon Corky is posing as a federal agent and making everybody in the movie theater I was in laugh like crazy.
The plot [and the laughs] gets heavier as the movie goes on and the performances from Chris Kattan, Chris Penn, Peter Berg, and Fred Ward are hilarious.
Chris Kattan is as funny as he always is (whether you find that good or bad).
CORKY ROMANO / (2001) ** (out of four)	I laughed hard at the trailers for "Corky Romano." I made many stops at the movie's official web site, which features a partially animated Corky leading two weenier dogs in a wild dance to A-Ha's "Take on me." I became interested in the newspaper ads that ask us "Who is Corky?" With funny promotional techniques, I expected big laughs from "Corky Romano"	Surprisingly, though, you will get most of the laughs this film offers by watching the trailers and visiting the web site.
Regardless of the story, however, "Corky Romano" features way too much throw away humor, lame physical comedy, and recycled slapstick jokes.
However can the rather simple Corky manage to get the evidence before he blows it.Despite having lots of recognisable faces in the cast, this is a very basic and dumb comedy that draws few laughs from many contrived setups and the type of humour that peaks with a man farting.
I stopped the DVD after watching for half an hour and I suggest anyone thinking of watching themselves it stop themselves before taking the disc out of the case.I like Mafia movies both tragic and comic but Corky Romano can only be described as a tragic attempt at a mafia comedy.The problem is Corky Romano simply tries too hard to get the audience to laugh, the plot seems to be an excuse for moving Chris Kattan (Corky) from one scene to another.
Corky however gives the feeling that he is deliberately screwing up in a desperate attempt to draw a laugh from the audience.If Chris had not played such an alien character (who never really connects with the other characters in the movie) and whose behaviour is entirely inexplicable (except for trying to draw laughs) and the comedy scenes weren't so predictable and stereotyped - all the jokes seemed far too familiar) this movie could have been watchable.
Corky Romano really lives up to his name.He was actually this vet but then one day he was being summoned by his family that he has to be an undercover FBI agent (along with fake identity and all that) to destroy whatever evidence the FBI has on his father.
At times, his inconsistencies almost appeared in front of his fellow colleagues and it's really funny.But end up, he became the hero in solving the case.Now, comedies are actually meant for some laughs.
It is a silly movie that is funny...When watching a light comedy, all you should be concerned with is whether you laugh or not.I say, that the problem with the movie is the pretentious audience expecting the next big thing.So watch it and laugh.It's that simple.And, if you take away all of the low-budget-like problems, it's actually a great movie.Believe it..
Not that I don't enjoy watching Chris Kattan, there was just something about "Corky Romano".
A simple screwball comedy.So it's a given that not everyone is going to enjoy Corky Romano because some people don't care for the style of humor that it portrays.
He is the key element here, and you watch the movie souly for the purpose of a good laugh at Chris Kattan's expense.
This movie wasn't as funny as I thought it would be but I think it had enough good laughs to make it marginally worth watching anyway.
Corky Romano could've been better if Kattan didn't try and go over the top in his comedy.
Only one funny scene in the movie to look for- Kattan fights with a cop dog with a big pack of coke, the pack (obviously) explodes in front of them, and then he has to do a speech about the FBI in front of grade schoolers.
I think it's about time everyone looked at the entire SNL franchise and decide that it's time to cancel the show if only simply to save us from such catastrophic movies as Corky Romano.This makes Attack of the Killer Tomatoes seem like Raising Arizona.
And everyone in the world will hear this big, scary laugh coming out of the sky, and that'll be it for that.One funny part: Corky accidentally takes cocaine and makes a weird retarded dolphin noise at some woman for like 5 minutes.
And their father bursts out at Corky's wedding that he loves his defective sons.Funny stuff, huh?Now imagine if they hadn't blown the potential of this running gag by flat-out telling us their secrets in the first seconds of the movie.
I am truly guilty on this one: even though this comedy is at times overly bizarre and odd, I cannot help but endear Corky Romano as being one of the funnier films that I have seen.
Although one may feel guilty for liking it and that their IQ has dropped a few points after the film, it is still a movie that is good for your heart as far as getting you laughing.I feel as if the plot line for a comedy was certainly original, and that the progression of the film was done excellently.
Chris Kattan makes an excellent idiot but sometimes is too predictable in his stupidity, meaning what he does isn't as funny as it could be.
Will Ferrell (the less talented of the two) hits with OLD SCHOOL and ELF, while Kattan gets stuck with B-level crap like UNDERCOVER BROTHER and CORKY ROMANO.
CORKY ROMANO is by no means a good movie, but he gives it his all.
Your closeted character had such potential but was terribly written, and since you, like Berg, aren't naturally funny you better have a damn good script to get laughs.
I laughed a lot, but rolled my eyes a few times when it seemed that even I could have written a scene that had more wit than some of those in this movie.I thought almost ALL of the scenes were REALLY funny, but that scene where he tries to squeak out the fart was so annoying- I couldn't wait for it to end.
Chris Kattans good at making people laugh.
** 1/2Starring: Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Berg, and Chris Penn.Corky Romano is a kind-hearted veterinarian who is called in by his family to act as a cop in order to help out his family.
Chris Kattan does a hell of a job as Corky Romano, but the movie fails horribly to develop Vinessa Shaw's character who turns out to be pretty important..
As for the plot, I could follow it, so I was pleased (but, yes, the script is bland and dull).Corky Romano is definitely an "I'm already in a good mood, just want something undemanding to watch while I snuggle with the S.O. or do some cooking" type of movie.
Kris Kattan plays Corky Romano-a quirky assistant veterinarian who gets contacted by his long-lost brothers to help them destroy incriminating evidence against their mobster father.
Robb Pritts delivers a funny and well acted out movie starring Chris Kattan, Chris Penn, Peter Berg, and Peter Falk.
And now, here comes the next main-character-named-comedy-feature starring MTV's Chris Kattan as the ever-smiling, constantly happy Corky Romano!
The movie moves fast and you never get bored!Good cast of characters and well-written script.Chris Kattan is the new Jerry Lewis!.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't say the same for most of this actors, who just cannot repeat themselves in movies as successfully as they do in SNL.We've already seen the examples of huge failures like "The ladies man', `Superstar' and `A night at the Roxbury' where Tim Meadows, Molly Shannon, Chris Kattan, Will Ferrer and other SNL fellows, worked in dull and nonsense extensions of their Saturday Night Live sketches and honestly weren't funny at all.This time, Chris Kattan is back as Corky Romano in another family & Mafia situation, where Corky (a veterinarian assistant) is called for his family to get undercover as an FBI agent and eliminate crime evidences that supposedly have his father and family as big gangsters.This whole story is a huge comedy cliché that cannot stand by itself and what is even worst, very dull and packed with bitter-tasted jokes.
Corky Romano is a joke, a waste of film and probably the most stupid movie in the world today.
I thought Corky Romano was a great movie.
I liked this movie mainly because Chris Kattan is in it!
Chris Kattan is excellent as Corky Romano, a very lovable character.
Chris Kattan did a great job as the title character, a veterinarian who's given a big job from his father/mob boss Pops (Peter Falk) to pose as an FBI agent to destroy the evidence of a crime he didn't commit.With help from his dysfunctional brothers (Chris Penn & Peter Berg), Corky successfully enters the FBI.
For a PG-13 movie, there were way to much use of the "s" word.Aside from these flaws, "Corky Romano" is still funny entertainment..
Leo suggests Corky Romano (Chris Kattan) to everybody's horror.
I laugh every time I watch this movie.