You won't be disappointed!

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Set in the 1960s, this little-known independent film was in limited release so that the majority of movie fans have probably never heard of it. DOUGLAS McGRATH is a CIA man who recounts tales of his misadventures to a couple of senators. The cast is sprinkled with some famous names: SIGOURNEY WEAVER, RYAN PHILLIPPE and JOHN TURTURRO among them, with a brief glimpse of WOODY ALLEN.All of the plot involves the attempt at overthrowing Fidel Castro during the period of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. All of the cast gets into the farcical nature of their roles, but none better than ALAN CUMMING as Gen. Batista, wackily funny in a role that has him ending up playing piano in a Florida nightclub singing "Diamonds Are A Boy's Best Friend." He makes the most of lines such as: "My great passion was the piano. Mamacita told me I must have something to fall back on, so I became a dictator." Sigourney Weaver has her share of memorable punch lines too and plays the role of McGrath's social climbing wife without ever becoming a caricature. She's obviously more skillful at farce than Ryan Phillippe as Petrov, the Russian dancer, who assumes a heavy accent but doesn't seem to know he's in a comedy. ANTHONY LaPAGLIA is effective as Fidel Castro and, in a smaller role, TUCK MILLIGAN does a nice job of impersonating President Kennedy.It's clever stuff and there's plenty to chuckle at, but I never found it downright hilarious as some others have commented.While I found John Turturro's performance a bit excessive as the maniacal anti-Castro activist, he seems to be relishing the chance at a comical role that requires a lot of energy to play. Only trouble is it seems a bit forced at times.Summing up: Wacky light-weight farce is funny enough in places, but there's nothing memorable here. And what's with WOODY ALLEN in an uncredited supporting role? As usual, he plays his nerdy self.

An energetic and entertaining movie with some pretty original scenes although much of the plot is from real life.Weaver is doing a fine and wholehearted job trying to grab the main role, but the role is more suited for Goldie Hawn.Cumming is delivering a 100% effort as general Batista which also threatens to steal the main part.The role of Fidel Castro is also well performed.McGrath as office Quimp on the other hand is weakly covered, although I grant he can sing.Surprisingly the uncredited Woddy Allen appears but is more Woody Allen than being the role he covers. Woody is totally out of sync with the movie and does as he pleases apparently.The mission of the movie could be to criticize CIA's secret missions for the US and does a fine job of that.The problem with the movie seem to be the instruction alone.A promise of a follow-up, this time in Vietnam is made in the end.

This movie seemed really boring at first, but after about 15 mins I got it and it takes off with a loud clear resounding laugh! I was pleased to see that I was laughing at something that was actually funny for a change... in lieu of the "im so hip i chuckle at nothing because its snl" (so-called) humor. (snl hasn't been funny for 20 of the last 25 years.)The cast is perfect in acting in the style of a 50's movie. The ones that stood out to me are:Douglas McGrath .... Alan Quimp = brilliant brilliant deliverySigourney Weaver .... Daisy Quimp = she can play a real witch :)John Torturro .... Crocker Johnson = psycho-soldier extrodinaireAnthony LaPaglia .... Fidel Castro = warm cuddly versionSee this movie if you want to be reminded that humor isn't necessarily vulgar, but just plain funny! 9/10 Zafoid

We weren't too far into COMPANY MAN when we paused it and started discussing whether or not to bail and move on to something else. We decided to give it just a few more minutes. Next thing you know, there's Woody Allen (!) on the screen and, before we had time to get over the surprise, we were laughing. Up until that point, the comedy had been labored and the jokes obvious. After Mr. Allen's appearance, the comedy remained labored, the jokes remained obvious, but for some reason I haven't been able to figure, much of it became very funny.I can't speak for my co-habitant (who professed not to like it much at all, but laughed almost as much as I did); maybe my mood just lightened; maybe I just suddenly accepted that this was broad, anything-for-a-laugh burlesque; maybe it was the gin and tonic I mixed for myself while we were deciding if we should finish the silly thing. Who cares? It simply began scoring well on my "laugh out loud scale," and I relaxed and enjoyed.I don't mean to mislead. COMPANY MAN is wildly uneven, and there is at least as much chaff as wheat. Think of it in the same way as you would an episode of the original "SNL:" what you're seeing at a given moment may be forced and tiresome, but wait a few, and something funny (however cheap it might be) is just around the corner.If you see this movie, and decide that I or any of the other commenters here who thought it was funny (or should that be whom?) are out of our minds, believe me, I do understand.Maybe you just have to be in the right mood.