The comedy’s downside begins with its premise. “The primary lame joke units up the entire story as Corbin Bernsen is distributed from the top workplace to handle a small-town financial institution,” says Siskel. “However what he does not know? It is a sperm financial institution. Now is not {that a} scream?” Small level that Siskel leaves out right here: The top workplace is at an precise financial institution. This implies Bernsen is being transferred from a enterprise that does automotive loans and mortgages to a department within the semen commerce. You’d suppose that will come up within the switch dialog. These underpinnings alone make Frozen Property “one of many dumbest comedies I’ve ever seen,” Siskel mentioned on the duo’s film evaluation present, Siskel & Ebert. 

“You are going very straightforward on it,” Ebert replied. 

The feuding and fussing between Bernsen’s inept financial institution govt and Shelley Lengthy’s uptight sperm skilled (it is a soiled job however somebody has to do it) didn’t impress with “dialogue that is on the extent of a failed TV pilot,” in keeping with Siskel. “I knew Frozen Property was going to be terrible from its opening scene through which we see an govt on the head workplace jabbering on the telephone with underwear stretched over his head. I do not suppose I can adequately describe to you ways disagreeable the remaining 95 minutes have been.”

Ebert famous that he’d been going to the films even longer than Siskel and “there was nothing I noticed throughout that point that even approached this in its abysmal awfulness. You already know the speculation of reincarnation the place the dues we pay on this lifetime, we might get to gather in one other lifetime? For having seen this film, I would like months and months and months in an exquisite valley with honey and nectar and zephyr-like breezes.”

Siskel and Ebert’s fellow critics agree that Frozen Property is past horrible — it has a 0 p.c ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was so unhealthy that on the duo’s year-in-review present, the critics needed to flip a coin to see which one bought to call it worst of the yr. Siskel gained the honors, however Ebert didn’t maintain again in his written evaluation of his worst comedy ever: “I felt like I used to be an eyewitness to a catastrophe. If I had been an actor within the movie, I might have puzzled why all of the characters on this film appear dumber than the typical roadkill. What puzzles me is that this movie’s tone. It is primarily a kids’s movie with a unclean thoughts. It is a film to observe in appalled silence. To name it the yr’s worst can be a kindness.”