Yes, cheaply made gets points taken off because the film looks like it was made with the cheapest video equipment, even worse than the most painful TV sitcom. Then it loses points for juvenile humor, the type of comedy that even kids wouldn't laugh at. Add in bloopers such as George Clooney tossing up pizza dough, and walking away, and the pizza dough never comes down. Shots of San Francisco identify it as New York, an obvious intentional blooper made to comment on alleged rivalry between the big cities of opposite coasts.
But the main reason this tomato stinks like ketchup on pasta is the fact that it just isn't funny. All of the humor is forced, and things that it tries to spoof are done in ridiculous ways. When John Astin can't even get a giggle (returning as the mad scientist from the first film), there's definite problems.
But the real reason this ranks as a near bomb is simply because not only is the comedy unfunny, but after a while it really is just painful. Did someone actually think while watching this in the screening room that audiences would laugh like they did with "Airplane! And "The Naked Gun"? Then there's the premise of the film being showed as the dollar movie and interruptions from a TV broadcast of it, equally painful. Send this tomato to the corn field on "Hee Haw" so it can be used as fertilizer.
But the main reason this tomato stinks like ketchup on pasta is the fact that it just isn't funny. All of the humor is forced, and things that it tries to spoof are done in ridiculous ways. When John Astin can't even get a giggle (returning as the mad scientist from the first film), there's definite problems.
But the real reason this ranks as a near bomb is simply because not only is the comedy unfunny, but after a while it really is just painful. Did someone actually think while watching this in the screening room that audiences would laugh like they did with "Airplane! And "The Naked Gun"? Then there's the premise of the film being showed as the dollar movie and interruptions from a TV broadcast of it, equally painful. Send this tomato to the corn field on "Hee Haw" so it can be used as fertilizer.