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Wise Guys

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Two flunkies (Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo) lose a New Jersey mobster's money and flee to Atlantic City.
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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

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Bahad j I am very happy that the movie shows us the steps and choices that are necessary in the life of a great person. I like the movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/07/24 Full Review 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 Read all reviews
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Synopsis Two flunkies (Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo) lose a New Jersey mobster's money and flee to Atlantic City.
Director
Brian De Palma
Producer
Aaron 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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