Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Lawbolisted Powerful

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

SnoopyStyle In 1935, pet shop owner Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) catches a boy stealing a puppy. He tells the boy a story to discourage stealing. In Lower East Side of NYC, Ma Kelly (Maureen Stapleton) needs an operation and Johnny starts working for criminal Jocko Dundee (Peter Boyle). The Dundee gang is at war with Roman Moronie. He hides his criminal activities and his alter ego Johnny Dangerously from his Ma and younger brother Tommy (Griffin Dunne). They're the only two who doesn't know. Tommy wants to drop out of law school. He wants to get laid. Johnny is taken with new showgirl from Pittsburg Lil Sheridan (Marilu Henner). Johnny's unstable old rival Danny Vermin (Joe Piscopo) joins Dundee's gang.I think this is trying to be Mel Brooks but it is missing the delivery. The first obvious problem is the 15 minute stretch where Johnny is a kid and there isn't a comedian in sight. The movie stalls before it gets rolling. Keaton tries his darnest. Piscopo does a good job and gets a few chuckles. There are gags and wordplay. It's written well but the end result is very few true laughs. It's gag after gag in this parody but few of it hits.

Mmmavis This early 80's spoof is a spot-on parody of the old Warner Brother's gangster films and classic screwball comedies of the thirties. If you like those old classic films then you need to see this, you'll get all the gags and nonsensical plot details that make it so funny.Michael Keaton is great as the title character, channeling the long gone spirit of Jimmy Cagney with the same irresistible Irish charm; but it's the supporting actors who give the film its hysterical brilliance, from Joe Piscopo---wickedly sending up the kind of despicable, second-banana roles Humphrey Bogart used to play---to Richard Dimitri, whose wildly funny portrayal of the sociopathic, unintelligible, ethnic-looking gangster is a pitch-perfect illustration of the unspoken racism in those old films, to Maureen Stapleton, who utterly steals every scene she's in as the lazy, dotty, foul-mouthed 'Sweet Irish Mum' those old gangster characters were always so devoted to.It's one of the most perfect parodies of a film genre ever made, and it's still funny, 25 years later. Watch it.

tbl-893-666250 This is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my entire life. I saw this movie when I was a teenager (an age when this dreck should have been funny) and I almost walked out it was so bad. There are some funny one liners (fargin' ice hole!), but for the most part, it is pure garbage. I have often thought about renting this movie again to see if my opinions have changed, but I just don't want to loose that much time out of my life. If you are bored and waterboarding is your only form of entertainment, then go ahead and watch this movie. Otherwise, spend your time watching something better than this. Airplane is actually funny. This, is not.

zengator Reading over all the great quotes from this movie, I found myself laughing out loud and wondering why I had rated Johnny Dangerously so mediocre-ly after the last time I'd seen it a few years ago.Than I actually watched it again and remembered. Yes, this film has lots of memorable lines and a few funny scenes. But due to many dead spots and comedic bits that just don't click, it doesn't work as a consistently enjoyable whole.There's a tipping point for this kind of movie, a percentage of rapid fire jokes that have to work so that you can forget the ones that don't. Airplane succeeds, Airplane 2 doesn't. Johnny Dangerously comes close, but doesn't quite make it.I must admit, tho, it's still pretty farkin' enjoyable watching Michael Keaton hamming it up playing a role he was born to play.