Men at Work is patient zero for the plague of Charlie Sheen movies that infected the 1990s.

The grotesque practical jokes perpetrated against two interfering bumblers are genuinely funny, while Estevez and Sheen remain cutely goofy even when indulging themselves in this adolescent idiocy.

The movie's desire to please is tireless, also engaging. Mr. Estevez's screenplay is not entirely coherent, but it has a number of comically crackpot lines.

Estevez tries hard (as usual, Sheen just shows up), but the laughs simply aren't there.