With Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Brian Doyle-Murray. Jobless loser Tommy Collins is sequestered to be a juror in a serial killer trial. He does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations to take full advantage of the free lodging and food.
After this movie, he would forever be sanctioned to the lunch table in the corner with the smelly kid, Carrot Top and the Noid from the Dominoes commercials. But not until he showed the world his versatility in Bio-Dome. The comedian Pauly Shore and I would find ourselves in agreement on one thing: The characters he plays are obnoxious.
We part company, alas, on whether they are funny. And after "Encino Man," "Son-In-Law" and now "Jury Duty," I am pretty much at the end of my curiosity about further experiments. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. JURY DUTY features Pauly Shore as a failed male stripper looking for an easy ride through life. The movie's cheap (and few) laughs hinge on juvenile sound and sight gags. It is cheaper and more intelligent.
Trailer Jury Duty
The Audience is invited, as the jury, to review his case and come up with a verdict. What unfolds is a complex narrative of evidence, interviews, secret code, and messages presented on a multitude of online platforms, as we, the Jury, debate the events with other Jury members and try to get to the bottom of the case. The Jury has some post-modern ideas thrown in that I dislike -such as using "feelings" to determine innocence and guilt.
The movie made it plain that the people who wanted to analyze facts and not emotion where a bunch of "un-feeling bigots." Absurd. Critic Leonard Maltin gave it a "BOMB" rating in his book Movie and Video Guide, but suggested even that rating "may be too high". Critic Roger Ebert said, on At the Movies, that Pauly Shore was the "cinematic equivalent of. Watch Jury Duty movie trailer and get the latest cast info, photos, movie review and more on TVGuide.com.