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Good start, but then it gets ruined

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Jury Duty (1995) BOMB (out of 4)Pauly Shore plays Tommy Collins, a spoiled brat of a human who can't keep a job down. He lives with his mom (Shelley Winters) and thinks he's gotten the "job" of a lifetime when he's offered jury duty, which will provide him free room and bored as well as some fun.When you look back at the 1990's it seems that there were several comedies making some really awful movies. To most people Shore was the most boring and obnoxious of the group of comedies but I honestly enjoyed his act. I loved him in ENCINO MAN as well as SON IN LAW, which allowed him to have the lead spot but after that things started to go rather bad and JURY DUTY is the prime example.I don't know the production history of this movie but at the time the O.J. Simpson case was in the headlines and there's even a joke about it in the film. I'm going to guess that this movie was put into production to try and cash-in on that craze but this is without question one of the worst comedies of the decade.It honestly seems like the screenplay was never finished and they just let Shore loose in a courtroom to be his obnoxious self. Again, I think Shore is funny but it's clear that he has nothing to work with here and you get non-stop annoying jokes that make you want to turn the movie off. It's just not funny and the film just grows more and more aggrevating as it moves along. It's really too bad that more wasn't done with it and especially since there is a nice supporting cast.

Jury Duty not only stalls the fictional trial it's based around, but it too seems like it stalls the flow and speed of the film. It's like we have to wait so the movie can catch up. If you've seen detective, mystery, criminal, or investigations shows this shouldn't be very difficult to piece together. I was able to point out the suspicious one, and come to a consensus on the trial in about forty minutes. Not a very complex film.Once more, we have Pauly Shore, who's fine in this film. I didn't adore him in this film, and it does not come close to the humor brought to us in Bio-Dome. I think In the Army Now is better than this as well. Jury Duty doesn't exceed the average/below average qualities it should to be unique or special. It does exactly what it's expected to do. Like a little kid on his way to the market because his parents said so. He walks straight to the market, and straight back. Doesn't stop and chat, doesn't smell the daisies, and doesn't lollygag. Nothing out of his expectations.Pauly Shore is lovable loser Tommy Collins who is in desperate need of money and a job. He is stuck at his parent's house with his dog Peanut, and his dignity deteriorating day by day. Tommy is called on jury duty, and like everything else in his life, he's hesitate on following through with it. Until he learns that the duty pays $5 a day, and there's a hotel in it for him as well. A few hours of sitting and listening to go back to a hotel, all for $5 a day? Why not? As you would imagine, Tommy doesn't want to give this up. He meets a sexy juror (Tia Carrere) who he is friendly too, but she wants nothing to do with him. Tommy gets the idea that if he continues to stall the trial, by voting "not guilty" every time, he can pretty much get $5 a day for doing nothing but expressing his false opinion. Ingenious! The film has taking a good beating by Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, and Leonard Maltin. I enjoy Pauly Shore, but didn't find this film too funny. Some parts I smiled or laughed, but as a comedy, it greatly fails at it's job - to make the audience laugh. If a comedy doesn't make the audience laugh, it's practically as lifeless as a soap opera drama. Just characters with no purpose.To date, this is the worst Pauly Shore film I've seen. Too bad. This could've been a very enjoyable film, but the film just doesn't feel like trying to be original. It just thinks that it can get by by being the simplest it can possibly be without failing. If only the film would experience a little, and realize it's a comedy film where possibilities are endless, it's critical and audience reception wouldn't be so sour.Starring: Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Brian Doyle-Murray, Shelley Winters, Abe Vigoda, and Billie Bird. Directed by: John Fortenberry.

Tommy still lives with his parents in a trailer park. He's trying to improve himself, but his parents aren't really pushing him. Though Tommy's father has a dream: collect styrofoam, no matter how dirty, from all the dumpsters and landfills he and Tommy can find, clean it, and recycle it. Oh, yeah, that's the way to live.One possible job for Tommy: a stripper at the club where his Uncle Sal works. Sal gives him a chance because he's family, but he just hasn't got the talent. Or the body.Then comes the terrible news: Tommy's parents are finally going to get married. In Las Vegas. But where will he live until they return? The couple who will take care of him are even worse than being homeless.But wait! That notice Tommy got in the mail about being called for jury duty. He can make a little money doing that, if it's a long trial. And he has to make sure to get a case where he gets sequestered. And, oh yeah, in nearly all situations like this ... do I really have to say what's going to happen?And the defendant is an accused serial killer who one can't possibly like, with an incompetent lawyer.One more detail: Although he ends up in a suite with the principal who expelled him from high school and still hates him--and keeps him up all night listening to motivational tapes--Tommy manages to con the hotel into giving him the best accommodations he can ask for!How have I never seen this? I love Pauly Shore movies. Actually, Shore didn't have quite the edge that I'm used to in this one. He had some great moments when he was trying to make sure he didn't get on the wrong kind of jury, and toward the end he really does a good job, considering he's Pauly Shore.I was concerned at one point, but the last 20 minutes or so make this movie really worth seeing. Sure, the writers have no concept of what would be legally permissible, and the number of offenses by jurors and other participants that could have resulted in a mistrial or contempt charges would fill a filing cabinet. But it's all entertaining. Eventually.Tia Carrere is really pretty and she has some good scenes. But it's hard to believe from his performance here that Abe Vigoda was ever part of such a respected show as "Barney Miller".You pretty much have to like Adam Sandler and Pauly Shore to like a movie of this type.

I think that Jury Duty was stupid but very funny. Pauly Shore is funny because he exists. There's room for anyone in comedy and he proves this point. I'm not sure if this movie damages brain cells, but I watched this movie alone and laughed my ass off. A little tasteless at times. I wonder if Pauly Shore wrote any of it. Andrew Dice Clay made an appearence, I think he's a good actor, very funny. Tia Carrere is a good actress also. It's a true comedy if you think about it, stupid, funny, there's only one part of the film that I didn't find funny. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Pauly Shore's mother runs the comedy circuit, so that's pretty funny in itself. Did he get on the big screen just by talent. You be the judge:)