Jury Duty (1995)

Directed by John Fortenberry. Starring Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Jack McGee, Abe Vigoda, Brian Doyle-Murray, Richard Riehle, Richard T. Jones, Sharon Barr, Sean Whalen, Charles Napier, Gregory Cooke, Shelley Winters, Mark L. Taylor, Richard Edson, Alex Datcher. [PG-13]

Another aggressively asinine and off-putting Pauly Shore “comedy” vehicle has him play (what else?) a lazy, weirdo slacker whose selfishness is supposed to be endearing because the audience knows that the formula demands for him to grow as a person before the end (yeah, right, like a fungus…). He’s got no job or place to crash, so he uses a jury summons as an excuse to con his way into a high-profile, lengthy murder trial in order to score free hotel lodgings, but whaddya know, the little creep ends up solving the case himself! References to 12 Angry Men are insulting, references to the O.J. Simpson trial are instantly dated (this is the level of humor where the name “Ito” is apparently funny in and of itself), references to any sort of juxtaposed reality make his halfhearted mugging all the more rancid. For anyone who can’t decide whether they’d rather see Pauly in drag or wearing a thong, don’t worry—he does both! Disproves the theory that everything is improved with the addition of Stanley Tucci. Dick Vitale cameos just long enough for his head to (literally) explode.

3/100