Trial & Error . Tucson Weekly . 05-29-97

Trial & Error

DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Lynn

REVIEWED: 05-29-97

A predictable, flatline Hollywood legal comedy (a perfunctory cross between My Cousin Vinny and Something Wild) without an ounce of bite or innovation. The leads make the most of a formulaic script dealing with an actor (Michael Richards) pretending to be a lawyer to fill in for his high-strung, Type A attorney buddy (Jeff Daniels) while he gets lost in the Nevada desert, falls in love with a beautiful blonde and discovers all the important things in life. The film strives for a surface kind of cynicism, only to invoke the Love Conquers All escape clause in the end. One of the perennial and most irritating of Hollywood messages: We all need to let our hair down and stop trying to overachieve in order to find ourselves. If it's so damn easy to drop all your over-reaching, money grubbing material ways and fulfill your inner self, then why is Spago double booked through the end of the millennium?

--Piers Marchant

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