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      Wise Guys

      R 1986 1h 32m Comedy List
      31% 16 Reviews Tomatometer 41% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score Two flunkies (Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo) lose a New Jersey mobster's money and flee to Atlantic City. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Nov 02 Buy Now

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      Alec B Plays like a live action cartoon, which is honestly my favorite thing about it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review Audience Member This movie got panned by the critics, but we saw it anyway. No, it's not some sidesplitting classic, it is only a mild comedy...as it was meant to be. Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo are dimwitted mob lackeys looked down upon by all the others. DeVito has to do things such as start one mobster's car which might contain a bomb in it-and there is a funny sequence when he looks around 360 degrees and everyone around is running away. But the lackeys do have higher ambitions, so when they are ordered to place a $250,000 bet at a racetrack expecting it to be lost anyway, they put it on a different horse, hoping to win-and not knowing the race had been fixed previously. Both are in trouble with their bosses for this, of course-but what irks the bosses worse is that the lackeys are more loyal to each other than to them, so that each is given a contract to kill the other. But instead, they decide to steal one boss's prized antique Cadillac and escape to Atlantic City, deliberately ruining it, as one lackey has a mobster uncle who might rescue them. Once there, DeVito decides he can still defy his bosses, as he is now far away from their base of operations. Indeed, DeVito gives an enthusiastic performance while Piscopo draws a blank. You actually root for the lackeys to possibly defeat their overlords-can they do it? The story's fast pace helps keep it going. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Plays like a live action cartoon, which is honestly my favorite thing about it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Film menor de De Palma Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member i thought this was pretty funny Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member I had somehow never seen this Brian DePalma comedy from the 80's, so decided to give it a shot. I am glad I did, I found it to be pretty entertaining. Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo star as two low level gangsters in New Jersey who work for a crime boss played by Dan Hedaya. They continually get into trouble with him and are pursued by the enforcer played by none other than Captain Lou Albano who is over the top, but hilarious. Harvey Keitel also has a small supporting role, and even Martin Scorsese's parents briefly turn up in this. The film didn't get good reviews upon release, and DePalma has somewhat disowned it, but I find sometimes some distance from a film's release can help it, and for me that was the case with this film. I found it to be a fun easy watch and think that it's worth checking out. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Fernando F. Croce Slant Magazine A mid-career faux pas, or the director's equivalent of the coruscating, laugh-stuck-in-your-throat dissonance of The King of Comedy? Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 31, 2006 Full Review Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: 1/5 Aug 20, 2003 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Wise Guys is broad and farcical, but there's not a moment when Moe and Harry stop being lovable, or even believable. Rated: 3.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal It's tempting to dismiss "Wise Guys" as a pointless, ill-advised forebear to "Dumb and Dumber." But even if only for an act, you sense De Palma striving for more artful zaniness a la the Marx Brothers or a grimmer side of the Ealing Comedy spectrum. Rated: 2/5 May 2, 2016 Full Review Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Rated: 2/5 Nov 7, 2008 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 22, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Two flunkies (Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo) lose a New Jersey mobster's money and flee to Atlantic City.
      Director
      Brian De Palma
      Producer
      Irwin Russo
      Screenwriter
      George Gallo
      Production Co
      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 1, 2008
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $7.0M
      Runtime
      1h 32m
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