Pauly Shore (“Bio-Dome”, “Son In Law”) stars in “Jury Duty”, it’s allegedly a comedy but the case could credibly be made that some diseases are funnier. The film begins with the abominable sight of Shore dancing in a strip club so your expectations are lowered within a matter of seconds.

Tommy Collins (Shore) is a jobless slacker that gets a notice to serve jury duty. He is initially resistant to the idea but he then realises that a lengthy trial means that he will get bed and board for free. Assigned to a murder trial, he is determined to drag the case out for as long as he possibly can.

Pauly Shore is beyond irritating. He’s belongs in the same group as Adam Sandler (“Big Daddy”) as he is consistently awful. There is nothing funny about seeing Pauly Shore strip for cash (and we are ‘treated’ to this experience twice) nor is there anything funny about seeing him in drag. The other jurors are played by some famous faces including Tia Carrere (“True Lies”), Stanley Tucci (“The Terminal”) and Brian Doyle-Murray (“Groundhog Day”) and all of them must have been wanting to hang their agents upon discovering they had been secured roles alongside Shore.

“Jury Duty” is merely more evidence that Pauly Shore is not funny. The movie might well be about a murder trial but the only person getting away with murder is Pauly Shore. Those last few sentences that I have just written are funnier than at least 95% of the gags in “Jury Duty”. The acting is weak, the jokes are terrible and the premise is depressingly stupid yet apparently there is audience for these sort-of films. I imagine the people that liked “Jury Duty” are the same people that have been funding the careers of Adam Sandler, David Spade (“Joe Dirt”) and Rob Schneider (“The Animal”).