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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 08/31/2006
2.5/4
A mid-career faux pas, or the director's equivalent of the coruscating, laugh-stuck-in-your-throat dissonance of The King of Comedy? Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
3.5/4
Wise Guys is broad and farcical, but there's not a moment when Moe and Harry stop being lovable, or even believable. Go to Full Review
Adrian Turner Radio Times Jul 2
1/5
Conclusive evidence that De Palma can't tell a joke is provided by this woeful, barely shown effort in which Danny DeVito plays a Mafia messenger boy and Harvey Keitel is a hotelier. Go to Full Review
Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal 05/02/2016
2/5
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. Go to Full Review
Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion 11/07/2008
2/5
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/22/2005
2/5
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Bahad j 07/07/2024 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. See more Alec B 01/10/2024 Plays like a live action cartoon, which is honestly my favorite thing about it. See more 02/05/2022 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. See more 02/26/2021 Plays like a live action cartoon, which is honestly my favorite thing about it. See more 12/09/2019 Film menor de De Palma See more 11/30/2018 i thought this was pretty funny See more Read all reviews
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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
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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