DVD Movie Rating for: Joe Somebody

3 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: Joe Somebody

When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer (Tim Allen) is brutally humiliated by the office bully Mark McKinney (Patrick Warburton) in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal make-over and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds himself the center of attention, ascending the corporate ladder and growing in popularity. He's determined to show everyone in his life that he is not a nobody, but a force to be reckoned with.

DVD Production Details of: Joe Somebody

Starring: Tim Allen

Director: John Pasquin

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen

Studio: Fox Home Entertainme

DVD Release Date: May 20, 2003
DVD Features:
Theatrical trailer(s)

Director and Producer commentary

Fight choreography

5 deleted scenes with optional commentary by John Pasquin

Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats

DVD Easter Eggs

Go to Scene Selection. Once in there select scenes 13-16. Highlight scene 13 and push up. This will give "Joe" and muscular arm. Select the arm.

This will give you a deleted scene entitled: Callie Visits Joe at Night. Has optional commentary by Joe Pasquin.

Cast of the movie: Joe Somebody

• Tim Allen .... Joe Scheffer
• Julie Bowen.... Meg Harper
• Kelly Lynch .... Callie Scheffer
• Greg Germann .... Jeremy
• Hayden Panettiere .... Natalie Scheffer
• Patrick Warburton .... Mark McKinney
• James Belushi.... Chuck Scarett (as Jim Belushi)
• Ken Marino .... Rick Raglow
• Wolfgang Bodison .... Cade Raymond
• Cristi Conaway .... Abby Manheim
• Robert Joy .... Pat Chilcutt
• Tina Lifford .... Cassandra Taylor
• James Cada .... Exec. Bill
• Tawnja Zahradka .... Waver 'Tawnja'
• Ahna Brandvik .... Neva

Photo Gallery of the movie: Joe Somebody

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Joe Somebody

Reviews of the movie: Joe Somebody

It's brains over brawn as Tim Allen reunites with The Santa Clause director John Pasquin for this amiable comedy about a devoted dad who almost lets his fists do the talking. After being humiliated by the office bully (played by The Tick's Patrick Warburton), corporate nebbish Joe Scheffer (Allen) vows revenge. He becomes an office celebrity, taking kung fu lessons with a has-been action star (Jim Belushi) and preparing for a rematch against his tormentor. Kid stuff, to be sure, but Joe Somebody benefits from Allen's Everyman appeal, especially when he's getting his values adjusted by a caring colleague (Julie Bowen, from TV's Ed), or trying to make good with his daughter (Hayden Panettiere) and ex-wife (Kelly Lynch). The comedy is pure vanilla, and the good-guy lessons are learned with bland, family-fare efficiency, but the Allen-Bowen romance is gently engaging, and Allen's flair for slapstick doesn't go to waste. As a pacifist hero, this Joe is somebody to root for. -

After having suffered through many the cinematic calamity since the untalented Tim Allen disgraced the silver screen after his loathsome tv show went off the air, I didn't think anything could possibly go below the depths of his career nadir, JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE. I was wrong. For JOE SOMEBODY is as awful as they come -- and repulsively inoffensive, at that. So as to appease the gullible masses, Allen and the filmmakers have presented cliched material in a harmless, non-descript manner that never gets in the way of its star and his cretin audiences being able to moronically relate to one another in tv-style blandness and obviousness. The story is sparse: Allen's a wimp-ish businessman who's tired of being picked on and proceeds to challenge a co-worker who pushed him down in front of his young daughter to a re-match. And the follow-through is even sparser: Allen does the comic ROCKY thing while courting a woman who teaches him that "what's important is in the inside, not the outside." Allen is terminally bland, the dialogue atrocious, the approach shaky, and the direction about on par with that of a KMart commercial. Only James Belushi's energetic rip-roaring supporting turn has any appeal. The pits.