Meet Wally Sparks Review

by Chuck Dowling (chuckd21 AT southeast DOT net)
June 13th, 1997
MEET WALLY SPARKS
    A film review by Chuck Dowling
    Copyright 1997 Chuck Dowling

Meet Wally Sparks (1997) NO STARS out of ***** - Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, Cindy Williams, Burt Reynolds, David Ogden Stiers, Alan Rachins. Written by: Harry Basil and Rodney Dangerfield. Directed by: Peter Baldwin. Running Time: 105 minutes.

With pointless cameos by: Tim Allen, Richard Bey, Michael Bolton, Tony Danza, Lesley-Anne Down, Morton Downey Jr., Karen Duffy, Gilbert Gottfried, John Henson, Ron Jeremy, Rikki Lake, Jay Leno, "Stuttering" John Melendez, Sally Jesse Raphael, Michael Rooker, Bob Saget, Julia Sweeney.

You know that pain you get in your throat when you eat ice cream too fast? There's nothing you can do, you just have to sit there and wait for it to go away? Well take that pain, multiply it by 100, and you still wouldn't know the agony that is "Meet Wally Sparks".

Rodney Dangerfield is talk show host Wally Sparks, although he's basically just Rodney Dangerfield. After the network threatens to cancel his show, he sets out to keep it on the air, and somehow ends up living in the house of the governor of Georgia (Stiers). Countless penis jokes and other crude sexual humor follows.

The film is remotely interesting for the first 30 minutes or so, only because of the numerous cameos. But those soon stop and nightmarish agony begins. Of all the players, only Burt Reynolds (as a network executive) fares well. Unfortunately, his role is brief. I'm almost convinced now that Dangerfield's entertaining 1986 film "Back to School" was a complete fluke. [R]
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