hyped garbage

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I call this the better Chris Farley movie made. I never cared much for any of Chris Farley's movies, but with a lot of thanks to David Spade's and Gary Busey's rolls in Black Sheep, the movie was truly one of their best movies made.I will admit that the whole movie has a lot of unbelievable moments especially in the beginning and ending scenes of the movie, but I will say that the Gary Busey/Drake Sabitch character had a very important roll in this movie, alongside David Spade, made Black Sheep rather entertaining, which seemed to make Black Sheep the best Chris Farley movie I've ever seen.

A gubernatorial candidate (Tim Matheson) hires a wormy special assistant (David Spade) whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother (Chris Farley) does not ruin the election.Film critic Gene Siskel stated that "Black Sheep" was one of only three movies he ever walked out on in 26 years; Siskel stated several times that he did not respect Farley and thought of him as a terrible actor, stating at one point "I hate Chris Farley, just rubs me the wrong way. I knew John Belushi, and he's no John Belushi." Siskel's colleague Roger Ebert also hated the film, calling it "not only one of the worst comedies I've ever seen, but one of the least ambitious; it doesn't even feel like they're trying to make a good movie".That really sums it up. People compare this film to "Tommy Boy", and they should. It is very much the same two characters, just in a different situation. If anything, maybe Farley's character is a bit less dumb here... but probably not. There is little to love, although a moment or two (like the roof scene) get a couple laughs.

I have been reading some of the comments about the movie "Black Sheep" that people have put up, praising this movie and saying that its funny and Good for civics classes and after careful deliberation I am forced to the conclusion to ask anyone that thinks along these lines, as delicately and dispasionately as possible....You can not be serious. Black Sheep was one of the worst so-called comedies I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing! Let me set you guys straight. Nothing, Repeat, NOTHING funny came out of this movie. The jokes were stale as two week old bread, the directing was uneven and cockeyed, the writing was painfully inept, and the performances, if you can call them that, were a complete waste of time. David Spade is dull and uninteresting as the campaign manager assistant, or whatever he was, to the point were he just seems to standing around in a stupor of some kind. Tim Matheson and The rest of the cast bring absolutely nothing to the table. However, I have saved the Worst for last, Chris Farley. Oh..My...GAAAWWWDD!!!! His acting, If you can call it that, is so over-the-top, overdone, overwrought, overacted, overweight, that it boggles the mind. Now, I now Farley whole shtick on SNL and in his movies his his wild, boisterous personality and to be fair, It worked, to a certain degree in his other movies like "Tommy Boy". However, Tommy Boy, was Oscar worthy material compared to this Craptacular eye-sore of a movie. Here he is not funny at all, he is not even acting bad enough to make fun of! It gets real old real fast and you start to get more and more angry at his ridiculous outbursts.One final observation, There was a point in the movie where they go up to a cabin in the woods were presumably, Comedic Wackieness will ensue, It doesn't. In fact, I actually wondered if the writers had a brief moment of clarity and realized the disaster they were creating and went on strike. So the director and actors tried to improvise around the cabin scenario. In any event, The point in the movie showed, the utter desperation these performers must have been feeling. I say they new what they were doing, but either they didn't know how to salvage it or they just didn't care. Shame on all of them.

Chris Farley was a movie genius. Fresh from SNL he made lots of funny movies, my favorite of his being "Almost Heroes". He had collaborated with David Spade before on "Tommy Boy". They both made a pretty good team in the movies. They were both pretty hilarious and it was a shame that Farley had died sometime later. So was this better than "Tommy Boy" you ask? NO! This was OK, but did not even come close to what "Tommy Boy" accomplished. So here is the plot: Al Donnely (Tim Matheson) is running for Govener of Washington and to ensure a clean election he hires his aide Steve Dodds (Spade) to keep an eye on his kindhearted but clumsy brother Mike Donnely (Farley). So the race to beat their competitor Govener Tracy (Christine Ebersole) begins so that Al can become the next Govener of Washington. The acting is sub par and mostly only Farley makes it up to snuff with the material he is handed. Spade on the other hand is probably thinking, I could be making "Joe Dirt" right about now, but is still pretty good in the role he is given, but still could be better. Their is a scene where Farley is smoking weed and that is what ultimately led to his death in 1997. All in all a good and interesting movie for a couple of viewings.2 1/2 out of 4 stars