johnny dangerously
clark kenting: everybody knows that johnny kelly is johnny dangerously except his mother and brother .
: after dundee credits how johnny
lives dangerously ,
johnny took
dangerously
as a last name to hide his true identity .
around here you' re johnny kelly, a law abiding nightclub owner. not the notorious gangster johnny dangerously
.
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a hilarious send up of old gangster movies. set in the 1930' s, it tells the story of johnny kelly a. k. a. johnny dangerously (keaton) .
“all right, here it is. johnny dangerously is going legit. ” “le - what? ” “legit. ” “le - why? ”
johnny dangerously ,
a spoof of' 30s gangster pictures, is a movie with two comic strategies, two laughs and no acting. the strategies :
title johnny dangerously year 1984 distributor (s) 20th century fox film co. ltd classified date (s) 16 / 11 / 1984 approved footage 8115 + 4 bbfc reference aff040426
healthcare motivation: this is what originally drives johnny kelly to becoming a gangster .
luxury prison suite: johnny' s prison - striped three - piece suit .
johnny speaks directly to the children in the audience about the importance of not smoking .
something else also rises :
sounds like johnny' s gettin' laid .
victoria' s secret compartment: when lil arrives with johnny' s bail money .
thematic theme tune :
weird al
yankovic' s
this is the life
over the opening credits explains how it feels to be filthy rich. the song
dangerously
sung by lil' later in the movie could be this, but it is less about johnny dangerously than it is about lil' s lust for him .
baby carriage: one of the would - be assassins of johnny is hiding in a baby carriage .
prisoner: johnny and the mothers are playing
stompin' at the savoy
in vermont tonight .
a fun and entertaining spoof of the gangster genre, johnny dangerously pulls no punches. the story follows a kid named johnny who joins a new york crime syndicate and rises to the top, but when his brother becomes a d. a. johnny is forced to choose between his crime family and his blood family. starring michael keaton, peter boyle, joe piscopo, marilu henner, and danny devito, the film has a strong cast and they deliver some good performances. the slapstick and sight gags are also pretty well - done, though not all of the comedy works. the plot' s a little weak too, but as far as parody films go johnny dangerously is one of the better one of the' 80s .
johnny notes that his gang has to diversify, or else the japanese gangs will run them out of business .
necessarily evil: johnny gets into organized crime in order to pay for various medical expenses for his ailing mother .
oblivious younger sibling: both johnny' s brother and mother. it' s mistakenly thought to be a plot hole that vermin failed to realize johnny' s real identity from when they were kids (since he recognized him right away), but the real twist is that vermin figures out that the d. a. is johnny' s younger brother (he didn' t know
kelly
was johnny' s real surname) .
in a hilarious sendup of gangster movies, johnny dangerously joins the mob to help pay for his sick mother' s operations, but when he tries to extricate himself and go on the straight and narrow path, he becomes a target for his rivals and the law .
blinding camera flash: johnny gets photographed repeatedly and then promptly walks into the wall he can' t see anymore .
the wavering
flashback
effect when johnny starts talking about his past life, which both characters on screen notice .
organized crime has never been so disorganized !
early theatrical trailer to 1984' s underrated mob comedy johnny dangerously. starring michael keaton, joe piscopo, marilu henner, peter boyle, griffin dunne, maureen stapleton, glynnis o' connor, dom deluise, and danny devito .
danny vermin: * while being dragged away * you shouldn' t shoot me johnny. my grandmother shot me once ...
johnny dangerously is a comedic film produced by twentieth century fox in 1984, and is primarily an affectionate parody of gangster movies set in prohibition - era new york city. the title character is played by michael keaton, portraying a youth who joins an organized crime gang to raise money to pay for medical procedures for his ailing mother .
“we missed the bus. they missed the bus. when’s the next bus? ” the whole time johnny is on death row is fantastic .
mr. exposition: the pope, and the neighborhood, explain how johnny' s family doesn' t know he' s a gangster .
fun anecdote: at my high school reunion, i talked to a guy i hadn’t seen in 10 years and wasn’t even really that close with in the first place. he asked what i’d been up to and i replied, “i’ve become a real scumbag. ” if it weren’t for johnny dangerously, i might have had to be dishonest .
but none of keaton’s movies matter, not even birdman, when it comes to a movie that some of us think is the best and most absurdly underrated film of his great career. on december 21, 1984, keaton hit the big screen with joe piscopo, marilu henner and a cast of character actors in johnny dangerously, the story of johnny kelly, a sweet nightclub owner who loves his mama by day and one of the city’s most notorious criminals by night. much like top secret, which was released earlier that same year, johnny dangerously received a mild reception from critics and earned limited spoils at the box office, because at that point in time, the spoof genre was simply dried up. johnny was the second feature effort of director amy heckerling, but back then her name carried little value, because her first film, fast times at ridgemont high, was initially hated by critics. little did they know these films would help her become a god of the cult classics .
1. johnny dangerously (michael keaton), a racketeer with a heart of gold, is trying to persuade his brother tommy (griffin dunne) to stay in law school; his brother wants to get married so he can sleep with his girlfriend. johnny shows him a reel titled
your testicles and you
that effectively parodies sex - ed instructional films. this kind of sight gag isn' t what you' d call sophisticated, but hey, you take what you can get .
i' m sorry johnny, i just don' t have the tits for it... i mean... heart .
improbable weapon user: young johnny disarms one of moronie' s men with a thrown newspaper and inflicts a groin attack on another thug with another .
johnny dangerously has a clear focus on what it' s parodying, but a lot of the humour can fly over you before you realize there was supposed to be a joke. it' s either a step ahead of the audience, or awfully subtle at times. the film can be quite funny, but there' s this delay where you have to think about the jokes that took place before deciding whether to laugh or not, which feels delayed and awkward. maybe it' s me, who knows. johnny dangerously does still make for a lightly enjoyable spin - off of gangster films of the 30' s (or just in general), it' s just a bit of hit and miss .
big applesauce: johnny has to remind lil that they' re in new york after she mentions coming to chicago to make her way in the world .
don' t tell mama: parodied, since to everyone but johnny' s mother it' s painfully clear that he' s a mob boss .
the pardon: johnny gets one from the mayor after saving him and the d. a. , tommy kelly, from vermin' s attempted assassination .
throwing the fight: johnny, at his mother' s imagined insistence, takes a dive during the fight with tommy, and promises to go legit .
you mentioned pauly dangerously, but this article fails simply because there is no mention of the film being so influential it gave the stage name to one of the greatest managers, promoters and talkers in the wrestling business .
weird
al yankovic wrote and performed a song for the film called
this is the life
. the song can be heard in some tv airings of the film during the opening credits as well as on some home video versions. the music video for the song contained many scenes from the movie and was shot in a night club setting making it look just like johnny dangerously !
of course, we all know that (as does all of johnny' s old neighborhood), but the rest of the dundee gang don' t .
dj storm & johnny dangerous ...
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the opening scenes of
johnny dangerously
are so funny you just don' t see how they can keep it up. and you' re right: they can' t. but they make a real try. the movie wants to do for gangster films what
airplane !
did for
airport ,
and
top secret !
did for spy movies. it has its work cut out; this formula consumes comic inspiration at an exhausting rate, and the gangster movie is not exactly an original target for satire. what distinguishes
johnny dangerously
from the other attempts in this direction is the caliber of the actors: this is a high - class cast, having fun with the material, and bringing a certain reality to some of the characters almost in spite of themselves .
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actor michael keaton is one of the stars of the new film “spotlight, ” the fact - based story of journalists who uncovered the child abuse scandal in the catholic archdiocese of boston. he says he was honored to take the role because he is a news junkie. he also tells today’s savannah guthrie that several people from the vatican have been surprisingly supportive of the film, and even admitted to being fans of keaton’s earlier work, specifically the movie “johnny dangerously”
do not do this cool thing: when johnny has to talk tommy into staying in law school, because tommy wants to get married right away... to be able to have sex with his girlfriend. johnny tells him that sex with beautiful dames is a
living hell ,
and he' s forced to show his young brother an army vd film to scare him straight .
resignations not accepted: johnny attempts to turn himself in to the crime commissioner in an effort to go legit, but ends up getting framed by vermin for killing the commissioner and sent to prison .
the great shame is that this mess belongs to director amy heckerling, whose gentle touch made
fast times at ridgemont high
so much more than a teen sex comedy. heckerling seems lost and distracted here - - the framing is careless, and the film moves with a stuttering pace. why is this talented director being channeled into projects like this ?
johnny dangerously ,
now playing at area theaters, is rated pg - 13 for violence and occasional profanity .
the bet: tommy, not wanting to arrest his older brother, challenges johnny to a fight, where the loser has to quit their respective jobs of being a district attorney and a gangster, respectively .
the movie begins its light - hearted path with an animated credits opening featuring images of manhattan locales set to
weird al
yankovic' s song
this is the life
. we are introduced to the owner of
kelly' s pet shop ,
mr. kelly, who apprehends a would - be thief and, after being treated to a tough - guy attitude, begins to tell the tale of his own past... the criminal known as
johnny dangerously .
while i have no statistics to back this up, i am confident that more people still quote this line in their daily dialogue than any other line in movie history. it goes so well with anything, from being interrupted in conversation to someone borrowing your copy of johnny dangerously and then never returning it. fargin’ iceholes, my friends are. danny vermin was full of great quotes, including another fun one that my friends and i used to think was great until everyone became overly sensitive to every word in the english language .
1. dredge up the cliche' s of b - moviemaking with a literal - minded absurdism. this might be called the
airplane !
approach. so
johnny dangerously
opens with a street scene bearing the legend
1935 ,
and the ho - ho is that the logo actually exists in the scene (a passing car smashes it to smithereens). or a character says ,
sure, and i' m the pope ,
in his best tough - guy style, and who shows up but - - the pope !
michael keaton plays johnny as a sweet, sort of gentle gangster who doesn' t see any need to stir things up. his archenemy is danny vermin, played by joe piscopo, and there are a lot of other interesting characters around, including marilu henner as a sex bomb who spends some of her most intimate moments on top of a piano; peter boyle as an eminently reasonable mob patriarch, and maureen stapleton as johnny' s long - suffering mom .
2. tommy, who stays in law school and becomes the da, puts his brother behind bars. but johnny bears no grudge (ya big palooka !). he gets word along the grapevine of a plot by the evil danny vermin (joe piscopo) to knock off the da. as the word is passed from prisoner to prisoner, it gets mangled, as it does in a party game. but johnny translates it back .
i know this grapevine .
3. marilu henner, as a nightclub singer who falls in love with johnny. there are few things more embarrassing than watching henner, with her pink fleshiness barely concealed by her gowns, paraded around as a sex object. she looks like a hamster .
metallicar syndrome: played with when johnny and lil are making their escape in a black... er, white... er, duckies - and - bunnies car that was previously covered in layers of shelf paper specifically so they could invoke the trope .
: parodied and lampshaded when johnny and lil go on a walk... and talk. after a very long time, they stop, look around and realize they must have left the city hours ago and are now out in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere .
while the movie sends up classic gangster movies in general, the basic plot point of johnny and tommy kelly ending up on opposite sides of the law is inspired by manhattan melodrama (1934). in that film, william powell and clark gable portrayed orphans who are raised together as brothers. clark gable' s character
blackie gallagher
grows up to become a gangster, while william powell' s character jim wade becomes a crusading district attorney (just like johnny and tommy, respectively). also, in both films, the gangster brother roots for the district attorney brother to succeed .
michael keaton couldn' t have played the role any better. as a kid born in 1980, his johnny dangerously character helped model my idea of cool. his confident swagger and undeniable charm was a highlight of the film and the supporting cast was amazing as well. with peter boyle, danny devito, marilu henner, and quite possibly, one of the greatest comedic villain roles ever played, by joe piscopo, this movie hits on all cylinders. it has also stood the test of time as i' ve shared it w / my children, nieces and nephews, and all have ended up quoting the movie quite frequently. you' re not going to want to watch this movie just once... once .
as the pope soon explains, everybody knows! johnny tries to lead a normal life with girlfriend lil (henner), but with his mom in constant need of medical attention and sickos like fellow gangster danny vermin (piscapo) after his brother, he needs the life of crime. a funny, funny movie !
i love this movie! ! so many people haven' t even heard of this movie any more, but it is on my must see list! michael keaton does a great job as johnny kelley / dangerously as he battle roman moron - ey and the rest of the
fargin' ice holes
and the
bastages .
with his brother tommy who becomes a district attorney, it is a wid ride in a black sedan. no wait, it' s white. now it' s, * really? * blue with baby duckies and bunnies on it. don' t understand? you have to watch this movie! !! (ray walston of' my favorite martian
fame has a great cameo role in it, too! )
you shouldn' t write a review about this movie. my brother wrote a review about this movie once. once! !! !! if you are looking for a realistic 1920' s gangster flick, watch the untouchables. if you want to have a great time laughing hysterically for 90 minutes, watch johnny dangerously. it has no basis in reality, but so what? it' s a comedy. a darn funny one at that! it' s michael keaton' s early years and he nails the part! the print through amazon prime video is sd, but it looks okay. and since it' s about the 1920' s it works. the whole film is shot with a general blur anyway to give it an old timey look so the lack of hd doesn' t take much away .
as their role model, however. without the zany inventiveness of the makers of that film, the all - out, anything - for - a - laugh approach collapses under the strain of too few funny jokes. the anachronisms and irrelevancies become tedious instead of funny. somewhere along the line, someone must have thought that having johnny switch from a charleston to break dancing was funny, someone must have thought that the mere mention of the cambridge diet plan was amusing, and someone must have thought that having maureen stapleton, as johnny' s mother, perform obscene gestures was uproarious. well, they' re not funny. the ideas aren' t funny and the execution isn' t funny .
tempting fate: moronie gets to thinking about expanding his night club because he' s getting to where he' s got to turn people away at the door .
knock down that wall, knock down that wall, and knock down that fargin' wall !
( cue johnny and dundee' s crew dropping a bomb on said nightclub to oblige moronie. )
danny vermin: you shouldn' t grab me, johnny. my mother grabbed me once. once. danny vermin: you shouldn' t hang me on a hook. my father hung me on a hook once. once. danny vermin: * while in clear pain * you shouldn' t kick me in the balls. my sister kicked me in the balls once ...
2. inject our times into a period setting. another idea from
airplane !
so a gangster' s car has a bumper sticker reading ,
i' d rather be stealing .
street vendors sell
i love johnny
t - shirts. or a fat hit man says ,
i' m starting the cambridge diet on monday .
you get the point .
the movie begins with the promise that it will grow into a great comedy. there' s a title song out of left field, sung by weird al yankovic, and then we see johnny as a middle - aged pet - store owner, stamping prices on his animals using one of those tape labeling machines they use in grocery stores. a kid tries to shoplift, and that inspires johnny to remember the days when he began his own career in crime. the flashback then develops more or less along standard gangster movie lines, with of course a comic twist on every cliché. it' s a little dizzying trying to spot all of the cameo roles as they go by; everybody who wandered onto the 20th century fox lot must have been hired to walk through this movie. but what gradually occurs to us is that we aren' t laughing as often; the movie keeps trying, but it runs out of steam .
longtime readers of filmdrunk might remember when quoting this movie was like a religion to us, especially since one of the site’s oldest commenters, pauly dangerously, dedicated his handle to the film. while we may have slipped on those references over the years, it doesn’t mean we don’t still love this movie like no other. so for the film’s 30th anniversary, i’d like to pay tribute to a wonderful comedy script, written by harry colomby, jeff harris, bernie kukoff and norman steinberg, by celebrating the best lines that you can still use in so many situations, mostly because they’re cleverly clean. that roman moronie sure knew how to leave his mark. even if he wasn’t from sweden .
the story is told in flashback, as keaton, a pet store owner, cautions a youth against a life of crime, using his own life as an example. this setup is a little shopworn, and is fairly typical of the entire film: a few good ideas well executed, a few good ideas thrown away, and several not so good ideas. the remainder of the film is a parody of the rise - and - fall - of - the - gangster cliche. johnny, a basically good boy, is forced to enter a life of crime to pay for the treatment of his mother' s bizarre ailments. meanwhile, his kid brother is studying law to become a crime - fighting da. befriended by a kindly mob boss (peter boyle), johnny malone, under the pseudonym of the title, is becoming a wealthy and important figure in the crime rackets. eventually, inevitably, his incorruptible brother sets out to nail him, little knowing that his sibling is the notorious gangster .
a fun thing about vermin that means absolutely nothing, because it’s simply a really vague coincidence, is that he tells johnny, “i’ll be late for target practice, there’s an opera letting out. ” it makes me laugh because keaton would go on to star in batman, a movie in which his character’s parents were shot outside of an opera. again, this is simply a coincidence, unless… joe piscopo can see the future. haha, just kidding. if that were the case, people would still know who he is .
american sniper attracted harsh criticism from antiwar activists like michael moore and many news personalities, has been compared to nazi recruitment films and generally has met with venom - spewing hatred from anyone who sees it as a glorification of the iraq war. others, including veterans of that war, said that chris kyle, the titular sniper, was no hero but a dangerously unbalanced man whose autobiography of the same name (on which the movie is based) is a bunch of lies. overall, critics seemed to like it, but many were also turned off by the premise and the potential lack of truth in it. as for audience reactions? it broke several box - office records, wound up being the highest - grossing film of 2014 (in the american market, anyway) and earned a rare a + on cinemascore .
. i don' t think that parody is keaton' s forte. he seems to be more inventive in a realistic setting. also, keaton shows no aptitude for working in a comic ensemble. his previous films gave him almost all the jokes, with everyone else mostly serving as straightmen (and - women). he' s not nearly as good at receiving a joke as at telling one. joe piscapo has a medium sized part as a psychopathic hood. as with keaton, this part doesn' t seem to play to his strengths. peter boyle is amiable, danny de vito is good as a corrupt da, and dom deluise puts in a mercifully brief appearance. maureen stapleton does well enough with the persistent vulgarities dealt to her, but she deserves better. marilu henner is ok as johnny' s girlfriend, and even gets a couple of good lines. a number of fairly well known character actors show up for brief scenes, and are mostly wasted .
johnny depp' s faced this in the new tens. it started with the pirates of the caribbean sequels, as the original was critically acclaimed, and alice in wonderland 2010. critics pilloried them, despairing that he was squandering his gifts by sticking with such large ham, spectacle - driven fare instead of the smaller, serious' films on which he built his artistic reputation. nevertheless, audiences flocked to them; the second and fourth pirates films and alice grossed over a billion dollars each worldwide. when the lone ranger, patterned after the pirates films, became a box office bomb, critics were effectively given free rein to beat up on depp and his later career choices  never mind that, beyond these wacky' roles paying him well, he enjoys playing them. given that depp wasn' t an a - lister until the first pirates caused his popularity to skyrocket, there' s an undercurrent of it' s popular, now it sucks to this dissonance. the av club spoke up for his choices in a 2014 opinion piece .
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the great shame is that this mess belongs to director amy heckerling, whose gentle touch made
fast times at ridgemont high
so much more than a teen sex comedy .
i know i shouldn' t like this film, but dammit, it' s just so gloriously exuberantly silly that there' s no use condemning it .
... the film doesn' t just run out of laughs; it becomes positively leaden by the last half hour .
so funny and entertaining, i really enjoyed it, even if some parts were a little too ridiculous. most of the time this is a very cool movie. it is a spoof of 30s - 40s gangster and film noir movies. if you like those movies, check this out .
this pastiche of old school gangster films has a couple of funny moments, but spread over 90 minutes it soon wears out it' s welcome .
that' s the thing! i can' t find it! we' re going to have to do a thyroid search .
you shouldn' t hang me on a door. my father hung me on a door, once. once .
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set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother' s skyrocketing medical bills .
trippy indie madeline' s madeline is the movie that lakeith stanfield and boots riley from sorry to bother you want to see the most .
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the name of richard dmitri' s character is spelled moronie on his club sign and in newspapers. in the credits its spelled maroni .
: i would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: you lousy cork - soakers. you have violated my farging rights. dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves .
after the opening credits, you see
1935
on the screen. a car in the near lane of the street drives behind it. then, another car (in the far lane) runs into the number sitting on the road, and smashes it to pieces .
this movie is just too funny, a totally non - pc gangster romp. if mel brooks made a picture about the mob in the 30' s, it would probably look like this. too many great one - liners to to remember, and while its not for everyone, anyone who doesnt laugh a whole bunch of times doesnt have a pulse. so, put it on and laugh you iceholes! ! !
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funny, ridiculous, may not be for those born after 1988. it' s slapstick and simple. no deep themes - other than love your family - so there' s nothing to get too excited about, but it does what it intends to do, entertain. cute, loveable flick. it' s so simple you can watch it again without minding. it' s like a conversation with your favorite smart, funny, savvy, clever senior at the senior center. it' s the same predictable story, but it' s fun to watch him / her wind up to tell the story. you see the spice in his / her eyes even if the body has gone off the rails. this movie is like a visit with your favorite senior .
an 80' s time capsule holding some of the better players in comedy working at the time; it' s fun to see as nostalgia and quite a bit of the humor holds up if you have seen... well, any gangster movie ever made, particularly those being sent up by this movie - length parody. wonder why your 50 - ish uncle says things like
my brother did that to me... once !
or
farghing icehole !
? this movie explains him ...
hysterically funny movie, full of funny quotes you will use for a life time .
if you haven' t seen this movie, ,, you need to. it is a hilarious satire on the gangster era. you will start using some of the quotes from this movie from the day you watch it. the hilarious dialogue between the characters will give you plenty of hysterically funny quotes for future conversations. be prepared to cry with laughter .
a lot of fun, some good lines and a smattering of slapstick! i remember watching this movie when i was much younger and now, as an adult, it seems to move much more quickly than i recall... not sure if that' s a good or bad thing. i think the pacing is nice and well - suited for a movie of this type .
a little dated and silly ,
did you know your name is an adverb ?
. but, make some popcorn and enjoy the hilarity .
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with michael keaton’s resurgence in what is undoubtedly one of the year’s 10 best films, birdman, a lot of people have been talking about the role that made him a certified a - lister in the first place – batman. obviously, you could argue that keaton was already on his way to leading man status seven years earlier in night shift, or perhaps he really stated his case for stardom in tim burton’s classic beetlejuice. batman was always unique, though, because it was the role that started a bizarre and inexplicable decline into one forgettable title after another. unless, of course, you enjoyed speechless and jack frost, in which case you probably never noticed anything at all .
thanks to this film’s great lines, a young burnsy was reprimanded many times in school for calling classmates “fargin’ iceholes. ” but i also blame these lines for making me think that the word bastard was actually “bass turd, ” which was hilarious to me because it was poop, man. that mistake led to me being grounded for a weekend. still, the best thing that moronie ever did for us was offer us these creative alternative curse words, not only because they’re technically clean, but also because your stupid friends who have never watched this movie won’t get them. it’s a great way to determine who doesn’t belong in your life .
also the newspaper article about maroni killing people while slaughtering the english language always got me. i need to watch this movie like right now, is it on any of the streaming services ?
no. at least not the legal sites. i can’t answer for the illegal streaming sites because i don’t trust that noise .
watching on those things is like defusing a fargin’ bomb [ viewfromthepine. com ]
it’s in that danny vermin clip, so it counts. i love the whole running gun gag. it could only be better if the gun got bigger every time .
glad i wasn’t the only one who got in trouble for calling someone an “icehole” in school. also, the lack of whitefish available at the concession stand is still a disappointment when i go to the movies .
girl who ain’t wearing a bra was a character we needed to know more about .
man, for years afterwards my dad & i would call each other fargin’ iceholes, or fargin’ corksuckers. love that movie…
and, to head back to a time when hollywood made gems like this movie, and the hottest piece of redhead tail was marilu henner… .
i’d forgotten about moroni. now i want to see all of al swearengen’s lines in deadwood dubbed by moroni .
“…because it was the role that started a bizarre and inexplicable decline into one forgettable title after another. ”
jeebus burns! the line is “the lower east side. it really sucks. ” it. it! jumpin’ christ on the cross, it’s not that difficult of a piece of dialogue .
this underappreciated classic needs a good blu - ray release. my sister, dad & i rented this on vhs back in the 80’s. the screenplay is very quotable .
and not to mention the opening song by none other than his weirdness, weird al .
that scene where the brother just wants to get married so he can get some… “that’s it? you little # @ $ @. ”
another great thing about the movie: weird al did a song for it. weird to consider that his career is still going strong thirty years later when so many other performers from that era have tanked .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
roger ebert' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th, 1994, being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
roger ebert was born on this day in 1942, and died a little over five years ago. i owe a good part of my success…
a look back at robert zemeckis' half - animated classic, who framed roger rabbit, on its 30 - year anniversary .
a tribute to the late tab hunter, a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
too bad. and especially too bad for joe piscopo, who is such an accomplished mimic that he once literally had me thinking i was watching jerry lewis on
saturday night live .
since masters of disguise are a fixture in gangster movies, why didn' t they let piscopo play a most - wanted criminal who was desperately trying to alter his appearance, and kept running up against incompetent gangland plastic surgeons? he plays danny vermin well enough, but the role seems rather limiting .
an interview with terry gilliam, director of
the man who killed don quixote .
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holds the honor of being one of the first movies to be rated pg - 13 .
: it' s a period piece, but a comedy, so some jokes were based on when the film was made .
bag of holding: ma kelly' s purse seems to have anything she needs .
bomb whistle: there is a scene actually involving a bomb dropped from a plane on the casino of his enemy, roman moronie. followed by an explosion .
broken aesop :
crime doesn' t pay .
cue his fancy suit, chauffeured car, and elegantly dressed wife .
well, it paid a little .
bull seeing red: the d. a.' s death: in a commercial .
once .
( long pause with index finger extended for emphasis )
once .
also, dundee' s cigarette case with the bullet dent (see pocket protector below) .
danny vermin: you know, if jocko was in charge, we' d be making cement loafers for him by now .
: in the prison escape (unusual in that the warden knew he was there, he just didn' t know about the gun) .
cluster f - bomb: averted, due to roman moronie' s mispronunciations .
covers always lie: the pope is featured on the theatrical release poster, despite only appearing in one scene in the movie .
cut his heart out with a spoon: roman moronie threatening mr. dundee .
deadly prank: young danny vermin, while selling newspapers on a street corner, produces a pair of large scissors from his paper bag to cut the leash from between a seeing - eye dog and a blind man, who is hit be a car off camera, then returns to work .
deliberately monochrome: the beginning of the flashback is b / w documentary footage with narration. when the movie' s new action begins the film remains in b / w, then transitions into color to indicate the film will be remaining in the past for some time .
dog latin :
post - meridian, ante - meridian, uncle meridian, and all the little meridians .
every car is a pinto: averted. tommy' s car has its brakes cut and tumbles down a hill dramatically, but does not explode .
: mary - margaret catherine dineen, the cleaning lady, can cuss a mean blue streak of these whenever someone walks on the freshly mopped floor .
: the entire movie takes place during a flashback, illustrating the story mr. kelly is telling the would - be thief he caught trying to steal a puppy from his pet store .
mr. kelly: aw, don' t worry about that, it' ll clear up. it always does this when i talk about the past .
fluffy fashion feathers: lil' s fancy nightgown has white feathers over the shoulders .
fun with subtitles: as the movie opens, subtitles fade in onto the screen to state the year; then a car drives over them, as they are actually plaster props standing in the street .
averted here in that he really is trying to swear, but his accent is so thick that the words come out a mess .
hand cannon: danny vermin' s. 88 magnum .
it shoots through schools .
sure, we did illegal things, but we never bothered the general public. and every christmas, jocko returned a little cash back to the community .
i should' ve never picked that name. a name like that, you gotta live up to .
macguffin :
whoever has my cigarette case bumped - off the commissioner .
malaproper: roman moronie. he' d have given the movie a hard r rating for language if the miserable corksoaker could pronounce a word of it correctly, that fargin icehole .
non fatal explosions: happens to both moronie and dundee at the hands of the other .
pie eyed: the animated segment does this, as it' s done in a 30' s art style .
: dundee' s cigarette case once saved him from an assassination attempt, and it has the bullet dent to prove it. it ends up saving
pretty in mink: lil wears a white fox wrap at the end, as part of spoofing the moral .
robot me: moronie' s murdering gift sent to dundee' s office, with postage due .
: the bits with the newspaper vendor, played by ray walston, getting beaned by a stack of newspapers, which cures his blindness, then makes him deaf, then gives him amnesia .
whenever somebody does something bad to danny vermin, he will say something such as
you shouldn' t have done that... my [ relative ] did that to me once, once !
schoolyard bully all grown up: danny vermin (minus the schoolyard). although his. 88 magnum shoots through them .
sitting sexy on a piano: lil sheridan, while singing in a nightclub .
: the activities of the police and d. a.' s office are indicated with front - page newspaper headlines .
the paper simply slides up to view when revealing the outcome of moronie' s trial .
turn out like his father: ma kelly doesn' t want either of her kids turning out like their father ,
killer
kelly .
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topper returns starring joan blondell, roland young, carole landis, billie burke, dennis o' keefe, patsy kelly, h. b. warner, eddie
rochester
anderson, george zucco, donald m
johnny dangerously is a 1984 american parody of 1930s ' crime/gangster movies . it was directed by amy heckerling ; its four screenwriters included bernie kukoff and jeff harris . the film stars michael keaton as an honest , goodhearted man who is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his mother 's skyrocketing medical bills and to put his younger brother through law school . it also features joe piscopo , marilu henner , maureen stapleton , peter boyle , griffin dunne , dom deluise , danny devito , dick butkus and alan hale , jr .
johnny dangerously is a 1984 american parody of 1930s' crime/gangster movies. it was directed by amy heckerling; its four screenwriters included bernie kukoff and jeff harris. the film stars michael keaton as an honest, goodhearted man who is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his mother's skyrocketing medical bills and to put his younger brother through law school. it also features joe piscopo, marilu henner, maureen stapleton, peter boyle, griffin dunne, dom deluise, danny devito, dick butkus and alan hale, jr.
johnny dangerously is a 1984 american parody of 1930s' crime/gangster movies. it was directed by amy heckerling; its four screenwriters included bernie kukoff and jeff harris. the film stars michael keaton as an honest, goodhearted man who is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his mother's skyrocketing medical bills and to put his younger brother through law school. it also features joe piscopo, marilu henner, maureen stapleton, peter boyle, griffin dunne, dom deluise, danny devito, dick butkus and alan hale, jr.